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Rights-holders fear regulatory squeeze on SuperSport owner will hit incomes
Twitter set to play long game for sports rights across Asia-Pacific
Twitter will take a patient approach to the acquisition of sports rights in Asia-Pacific, according to its head of sports partnerships in the region.
Bundesliga earns big increase as Sport 24 fortifies rights portfolio
Germany’s Bundesliga more than doubled the value of its in-flight and in-ship rights in a renewal with IMG this month.
Watching Brief (Vol.122) Special Focus: Cricket – ICC World Twenty20
John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences in selected key cricket markets for the recent ICC World Twenty20 tournament
Gatekeeper deal with Star pushes ICC towards $3bn global revenues
Giles Clarke, the head of the International Cricket Council’s media-rights negotiation team, hailed this month’s deal with Rupert Murdoch’s Star pay-television operations as “hugely positive for the game around the world.”
IMG signs off ICC Pathway global streaming, commercial rights deal
EXCLUSIVE: IMG lodges winning bid for ICC Pathway live streaming, commercial rights
Broadcasters in over 100 countries for rescheduled Abu Dhabi T10 League
ICC issues RFP for broadcast production of over 500 matches
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Giles Clarke, chairman of the finance and commercial affairs committee, International Cricket Council
Interview with Giles Clarke, chairman of the finance and commercial affairs committee for the International Cricket Council, on the governing body’s new eight-year deal with Star India and Star Middle East.
ICC looks to double its money to cement contested overhaul
The ICC’s ambitious income target for its next cycle of media rights sales
All change in rugby, cricket and football
If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.
Sky continues big spending to fortify cricket stronghold
Big-hitting BSkyB lands two more cricket deals to keep BT at bay
Radical Indian plan could help cricket worldwide
Proposal for alternative international-cricket schedule.
Sky football deal was world No.1 for 2006
UK pay-operator’s English Premier League deal was year's largest television sports-rights deal.
Cricket fees rise as CSI fights to retain deals
Australian, English, South African, New Zealand, Zimbabwean boards to benefit from new Asian television rights deals.
Big gamble on Indian cricket
$612 million deal signed by the Nimbus Sport agency for worldwide television rights for cricket played in India is looking increasingly risky.