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A federal judge has ruled US sports fans accusing Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League and broadcasters of illegally restricting their ability to watch their favourite teams on television cannot claim damages as a class.

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The board members of Time Warner Cable and Comcast have admitted defeat in their efforts to salvage a proposed $45.2bn (€42bn) takeover of the US pay-television operator by the US media company.

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NFL American football franchise the Philadelphia Eagles has signed a regional broadcast partnership with US pay-television broadcaster Comcast SportsNet and the NBC10 regional affiliate of the NBC network.

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US pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel has pledged to maintain its long-running carriage dispute with pay-television provider Comcast despite US media regulator the Federal Communications Commission denying its request to again look at the case.

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North American Major League Soccer club the Chicago Fire has entered into a regional rights deal with the Chicago branch of US pay-television broadcaster Comcast SportsNet.

The International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) has renegotiated a deal for Canadian pay-television broadcaster Rogers Sportsnet to show same-day coverage of the remainder of the 2014-15 Bobsleigh and Skeleton Word Cup.

Satellite-television provider DirecTV and telecommunications company AT&T have been granted permission to launch Root Sports Houston, a new US network that will provide coverage of Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games, according to the Houston Chronicle newspaper.

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Houston Astros MLB baseball and Houston Rockets NBA basketball games will be provided to a much wider television audience after a judge approved a bankruptcy reorganisation plan involving the two teams’ local rights-holder, Comcast SportsNet Houston.

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Time Warner Cable’s shareholders have approved a deal for the US pay-television operator to be acquired by US media company Comcast for $45.2bn (€33.2bn).

US pay-television broadcaster Comcast SportsNet has extended its local rights deal with NBA basketball franchise the Sacramento Kings.

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US media company Comcast, the country’s largest cable-television operator, has agreed a carriage deal with sports broadcaster ESPN for the SEC Network, a new pay-television sports channel dedicated to college sport’s Southeastern Conference.

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US media company Comcast, the country’s largest cable-television operator, is set to strike a carriage deal for SEC Network, a pay-television sports channel dedicated to college sport’s Southeastern Conference.

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US media company Comcast has struck a deal to distribute cable-television broadcaster the Big Ten Network (BTN) in the states of New Jersey and Maryland.

US MLB baseball club the Chicago Cubs is considering launching a multicast television station to broadcast games currently held under the team’s local rights deal with cable-television broadcaster WGN-TV, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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US media company Comcast has said the Sochi winter Olympics generated over $1.1bn (€797.1m) in revenue, with its NBCUniversal division’s broadcasts of the 2014 Games making a significant contribution to a first quarter net income rise of 30 per cent.

US pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel has resumed its long-running carriage dispute with pay-television provider Comcast by asking US media regulator the Federal Communications Commission to again look at the case.

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The US Supreme Court has rejected pay-television broadcaster the Tennis Channel’s complaint against pay-television provider Comcast’s decision to carry the network on a premium sports tier in the latest development of long-running dispute between the two parties.

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US media company Comcast has agreed a deal to acquire US pay-television operator Time Warner Cable for $45.2bn (€33.2bn).