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The court endorsed the tribunal’s view that Orange was acting against the consumer interest in obliging subscribers that wanted to subscribe to the channel to also sign on to its triple-play offer. Rival telecoms operators SFR and Free brought the case against Orange.

Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ drew an average audience of 427,000 viewers across the tournament, its highest for at least 13 years and almost certainly its highest ever.

In the UK, public-service broadcaster the BBC’s coverage was watched by an average 4.63 million viewers share, pipping the previous record set in 2007.

Viasat’s deal covers Finland, Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Viasat will show a minimum 64 games a season on its Viasat Sport Baltic channels.

The KHL features 21 teams from Russia, along with three from Latvia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Telkom owns 66 per cent in the business, which it hoped would become a competitor to Naspers’ Multichoice, owner of the Supersport channels.

TSA is now working with technology enabler Mo. Ad Tech to provide a sports platform, PocketSports, to Indonesia’s two biggest mobile operators, Telkom Cell and Indosat.

The One Asia Super Series, set up by the national golf associations in China, Korea and Australia, will feature eight events this year, five of which are slated to be part of the Asian Tour schedule covered by ESS.

The other agency bidders are Sportfive, Infront Sports and Media and Ufa Sports. The European Broadcasting Union is also understood to have made a bid for a package of smaller European countries as it looks to bounce back from the loss of Olympic rights late last year.

The packages, covering the three-year period from 2010-11 to 2012-13, follow on from the league’s successful sales of its main highlights and live rights earlier this year.

The channel is designed to help TV4’s Canal Plus pay-channels compete more strongly in Denmark with rival pay-broadcaster, Modern Times Group-owned Viasat.

Nova, which earlier this month picked up the package of Champions League rights dropped by rival On Telecoms, added 3,160 subscribers in the quarter, bringing its total base to 362,739, an increase of 1.4 per cent over the year. It now has 305,220 digital subscribers and 41,188 analogue subscribers.