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League offers live rights to free-TV
Polish, Hungarian TV resist Infront
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Cricket, football, rugby union and snooker
Cricket: The Board of Control for Cricket in India, after extensive legal wrangles, finally signed a deal for the Indian rights to the three tours taking place this year, a four-Test series against Australia, a two-Test series against South Africa and a one-off one-day international against Pakistan, with state broadcaster Doordarshan.
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Olympics, domestic league football, motorcycling
Olympics: Indonesia’s six main free-to-air broadcasters will not cover the Athens Olympics despite the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reducing its initial $1.35m (£730,000/€1.1m) asking price, working out at $225,000 for each broadcaster, to $400,000.
UPC to launch sports channel
Channel signals it will become big football player
F1’s TV season is saved by last five races for title
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Japan Olympic deal, Uefa football and more
Final defeat for Realitatea sport plan?
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football
ISPR’s football rights are a good fit for Sportfive
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Women’s handball brings TV2 early Christmas present
Realitatea’s plans turn to ashes in white-hot market
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football, motorcycling, Formula One and others
Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).