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BSkyB, BBC Join ITV, BT In 'Fierce' Bidding War For FA Cup TV Rights06 / 18 / 13A "fierce bidding war" for the TV rights to the FA Cup "looks likely after four broadcasters submitted bids" to the FA in the first round, according to Robert Budden of the FINANCIAL TIMES. BT and ITV "currently share the rights" to the FA Cup until the end of the '13-14 season. On Friday, both "sub... Tags: Media, United Kingdom, Europe |
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Univision Gets European Football Rights
Univision Deportes will become the U.S. Hispanic home of the German national team and the DFB Cup, the French national team and the French Cup, and France’s Ligue 1. The multi-year deals are exclusive in Spanish across multiple media platforms. The agreements will grant Univision Deportes medi ...
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BSkyB To Broadcast Ryder Cup
BSkyB has partnered with James Cameron's 3D production firm Cameron Pace Group to "offer live 3D coverage" of the Ryder Cup on the Sky 3D channel later this month, according to Georg Szalai of the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER. The golf competition begins on Sept. 28 at the Medinah Country Club in Illinois. Te ...
Closing Ceremony Draws 6M TV Viewers
The Paralympics Closing Ceremony averaged nearly 6 million viewers, helping to give Channel 4 "a bigger share of the audience than either BBC1 or ITV1" on Sunday, according to John Plunkett of the London GUARDIAN. Sunday night's spectacular end to the London Games, which featured Coldplay and Rihann ...
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Bundesliga See Uptick In Online Traffic
The start of the Bundesliga season has "boosted visit numbers of big German sports and football websites in August," according to David Hein of HORIZONT.net. The five biggest winners in August included four football websites. The biggest jump was made by football radio 90elf. The number of visits at ...
Telemundo Scores Leon Rights
Comcast-owned Spanish language network Telemundo followed through on a promise to remain a player for Mexican league soccer on Friday, landing multi-platform U.S. rights to Club Leon, a historically popular team that was promoted to the first division for ‘12-13. The acquisition comes six week ...
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Bundesliga Signs Deal With North Korea
North Korean TV channel KCTV "will reportedly broadcast German Bundesliga games, starting in mid-September," according to Stefan Merx of the WALL STREET JOURNAL DEUTSCHLAND. DFL Sports Enterprises CEO Jörg Daubitzer, who is in charge of the Bundesliga's foreign marketing, "confirmed the deal." ...
ICC Signs Media Deals For Sri Lanka '12
The Int'l Cricket Council has signed Sports News Television (SNTV), Perform and Reuters as distributors for the ICC World Cricket Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 event. These deals guarantee news broadcasters around the world access to news highlights from matches, press conferences, player interviews and e ...
TV Show Reveals Liverpool's Struggles
EPL club Liverpool's "transfer window bungling is exposed in the first episode of a fly-on-the-wall TV series about the club," according to Nick Harris of the London DAILY MAIL. In the six-part documentary, Manager Brendan Rodgers insists, "it would 'take something incredible' for Andy Carroll to le ...
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Ratings Record For Peacock's 100m Gold
Unofficial overnight figures revealed that a "record Paralympics athletic audience of 6.3 million people tuned in to Channel 4" to watch Team GB's Jonnie Peacock snatch the T44 100m crown from Oscar Pistorius" Thursday night, according to Arif Durrani of BRAND REPUBLIC. The five minute peak audience ...
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World Cup Qualifier Draws Strong Audience
The 2014 World Cup qualification match between Germany and the Faroe Islands "obtained Friday's top rating with an average of 7.87 million viewers," according to Timo Niemeier of QUOTENMETER.de. Germany's 3-0 victory received a "strong" 28.2% market share. ZDF's coverage also obtained "fantastic" ra ...
