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Sogecable still has claims on Real Madrid
Sogecable successfully exercised a one-year renewal option in a previous contract to extend its deal with the club for the 2008-09 season after Real Madrid had signed in 2007 a five-year deal, running from 2008-09 to 2012-13, with sports rights agency Mediapro.
Mediapro accepted the option, and moved its deal with Real Madrid back by one year, so that it runs from 2009-10 to 2013-14.
Orange threatens to drop Ligue 1
Orange is presently appealing the he decision of Paris’s Tribunal de commerce, which ruled that its strategy of offering its Orange Sport channel only to Orange ADSL subscribers was anti-competitive. If it fails in its appeal, Orange said that it will cease marketing operations for Orange Sport, the channel that carries the matches.