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ESS makes $100m profit on ICC
Deal in Australia takes ESS over $100m profit threshold for global ICC rights sales
YouTube’s splurge good timing for Premier League
YouTube football deals good timing for Premier League
‘Ambitious’ MCS stocks up
MCS advances in France and beyond
Fox hunt for top sport continues
How Eredivisie deal fits into Fox expansion strategy
Al Jazeera drives Pitch’s Brazil friendly deal
Al Jazeera helps Pitch to pull off Brazilian rights coup
Italian volleyball fits MP & Silva’s growth strategy
Italian volleyball goes global
Israel’s Sports Channel wins Olympics rights
Israeli pay-television broadcaster the Sports Channel has acquired rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games in a deal with the Sportfive agency
Univision primed for ‘new Copa’
New Conmebol event could become replacement for Copa; Why the US is the perfect host
Rights pact means hard times
Italian market about to get very hard for rights-holders as Sky and Mediaset cosy up
Uefa ponders third-round bids but gives no clues to agencies
Final agency bids are in but Uefa still has talking to do to close deal for qualifiers
How ESS will turn into feisty Fox
How ESS will become more aggressive under News Corp; Difficult marriage from day one
Switch to pay-TV gathers pace in Europe with new Italian deal
Italy follows the UK with pay-free F1 split; France could be next if TF1 lowballs
ECB agrees seven-year deal with ESS at healthy increase
ECB enjoys healthy rights-fee increase in new ESS deal
Al Jazeera pays big fee for Copa
Al Jazeera acquires Copa rights
Globo acquires Ligue 1 rights
Globo bags Ligue 1
Rivals fear Al Jazeera & friends
Al Jazeera holds the key to two big rights tenders but may not bid in either of them
Make or break time could push ESPN to pay increase
Premier League has listened to ESPN, now it's up to ESPN to decide if it wants to compete with the big boys
Uefa enjoys 30% increase in Europe despite recession
Champions League value up by 30% in top 5 European markets