Korea Baseball Organisation (KBO)

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The KBO League, South Korea's professional baseball league, is to get free global exposure on new streaming platform SOOP in a three-year international rights deal
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The Korean Baseball Organisation will receive a 30-per-cent increase in domestic rights fees for its top-tier league after media group CJ ENM secured exclusive streaming rights at a strong uplift.
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Media group CJ ENM has secured exclusive streaming rights to the top-tier league of the Korean Baseball Organisation from 2024 to 2026, marking the first time the property has gone behind a streaming paywall in South Korea.
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Four Korean broadcasters with rights to the country's baseball league are seeking compensation due to disruptions to this season's schedule caused by the Covid-19 pandemic
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Global sports broadcaster ESPN has added coverage in 130 international territories to its existing US rights deal with the Korean Baseball Organisation
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Live baseball is returning to US audiences following the completion of a new media rights deal between ESPN and the Eclat Media Group for rights to South Korea’s KBO League.
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ESPN's plans to acquire rights to the Korean Baseball Organisation's domestic league are reported to have stalled after the US-based sports broadcaster is said to have attempted to acquire the rights free…
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US sports broadcaster ESPN is said to have approached the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) on the possibility of transmitting South Korean baseball games to its American audience
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The emergence of a ‘digital consortium’ to rival the long-standing Korea Pool of free-to-air broadcasters led the Korea Baseball Organisation to record-breaking rights income for its new cycle in the most recently concluded deals. But local industry experts see the digital consortium (DC) deal as a one-off and do not expect it to become a major player in the sports media-rights market.
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The Korea Baseball Organization has launched a tender for the distribution of its media rights in territories outside Korea, covering the 2020 to 2023 seasons
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The Korea Baseball Organisation has agreed a domestic media rights deal with the country's three main free-to-air broadcasters worth KRW54bn ($45m) per season for the four seasons from 2020 to 2023, according…