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EBU well placed to tighten its grip on Fifa World Cup rights
Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: American football, athletics, hockey, handball and more
American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football: Champions League, Serie A, Bundesliga and more
Football: Uefa agreed deals in the Netherlands for the Champions League and Europa League for three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Football: Fifa World Cup, South Asian Championship and more
Football: The ISM agency acquired the rights in Indonesia to the 2014 Fifa World Cup in a deal worth $55m (€40m). ISM sold the rights to the Bakrie Group for about $60m (page 9).
MLS wants to be among the world’s best by 2022
Growing MLS has big plans, with or without Beckham
Soccer finally ‘coming of age’ in US, experts say
Football comes of age in US
News Corp considers Dodgers stake
Media conglomerate News Corporation is considering buying a minority stake in the bankrupt Major League Baseball team the Los Angeles Dodgers in a move designed to help its US network Fox retain the team’s l…
USOC and IOC schedule revenue-sharing talks
US Olympic Committee chairman Larry Probst and chief executive Scott Blackmun will hold further talks with the International Olympic Committee tomorrow over a new broadcast and sponsorship revenue-sharing…
Dodgers settle with Fox
The Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team agreed yesterday to honour its existing broadcast partnership with US network Fox
NBC plans London 2012 in 3D
US network NBC will provide 3D coverage of the Olympic Games for the first time after agreeing a partnership with television manufacturer Panasonic covering the London 2012 Games
Disney signs five-year deal for New York Marathon
US media group Disney acquired the rights to the New York City Marathon in a five-year deal, from 2012 to 2016, that will have the event shown live on national television for the first time in almost 20…
The Score brings US college programming to Canada
The Fox Sports International media company agreed a multi-year deal to provide at least 250 hours of live US college sports programming per year to Canadian cable-television sports channel The Score
Lagardère expands golf division with Gaylord acquisition
Lagardère Unlimited, the sports marketing division of French conglomerate Lagardère, acquired Gaylord Sports Management, a US-based athlete representation group.
IMG goes Monster in US deal
IMG Media was appointed as exclusive global television distributor of the motorsports events run by Feld Motor Sports, including the Monster Energy Supercross, an FIM-sanctioned off-road motorcycle racing…
NFL regular-season viewing falls
The average US television audience for a regular-season NFL match in 2011-12 fell by 2.1 per cent year on-year to 17.5 million, according to audience measurement company Nielsen Media Research
Golf Channel scores record viewing figures
US pay-television broadcaster the Golf Channel had an average of 90,000 viewers at any given time last year, a record for the channel, according to audience measurement company Nielsen Media Research
Disney-Comcast deal takes ESPN out-of-home
Media conglomerate Walt Disney Company extended a deal for its pay-television sports broadcast subsidiary ESPN and other channels to be carried by media company Comcast’s cable-television service in a…
NBC attracts large Winter Classic audience
The NHL Winter Classic game on January 2 between the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Rangers attracted the fifth-largest US television audience for a regular-season ice hockey match since 1975