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American Football

American Football: UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 acquired the live rights to all of the NFL’s Sunday night games for the 2010 season.
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Football: Romanian telecoms operator Romtelecom acquired the rights for eight live World Cup group stage matches and delayed rights for 44 other games in a deal with public-service broadcaster TVR, paying…
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Nimbus Communications believes launching its channel in new markets will be more lucrative than selling Indian cricket rights into those countries.
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O'Brien comes out fighting over IPL ... Sportklub looks for elbow room ... Canal Plus to hold Wimbledon

Basketball

Basketball: Euroleague Basketball agreed deals in the UK, China and Iceland for the 2010 Final Four
American Football

American Football: UK pay-broadcaster ESPN acquired the rights for NFL Monday Night football in a two-year deal covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. The deal covers live, repeat and pre-game programming
Basketball

Basketball: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten acquired the rights for the National Basketball League, Australia's top-tier basketball competition, in a five-year deal directly with the…
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News round-up, Vol 14 Issue 6

American Football

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha
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IPL lands 90-per-cent penetration in UK with ITV4 deal
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Global Cricket Ventures has acquired Indian Premier League US internet rights-holder Willow TV.

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“We want eyeballs and that's what matters to us foremost. You can't get bigger and better than our strategy. People all over the world ask me where can we watch IPL - now I can always say - you can watch it on You Tube." - Lalit Modi.

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Cricket: Entertainment Sports & Direct acquired the theatrical rights for the Indian Premier League in a 10-year deal from 2010 to 2019, paying Rs3.3 bn ($70m)
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The Nimbus Communications agency’s newly extended deal for Indian cricket could guarantee the safe future of its broadcast subsidiary, Neo, for the best part of a decade.
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Football: Middle East pay-broadcaster Al Jazeera Sports acquired the rights for Euro 2012 and 2016 in a deal with Uefa, European football’s governing body, worth $100m (€67m) overall. Al
Athletics

Next week’s bidding deadline for English Premier League rights in most of Asia will kick off a frenzied period of activity for the league, with tenders being issued shortly afterwards in Greater China, Africa, Australasia and Europe.
American Football

American Football: Pay-television broadcaster Telenet acquired the rights in Flanders for the National Football League in a four-year deal with the IMG agency from 2009 to 2012
Cricket

Last week Ten Sports became the first sports broadcaster in India to stream its live cricket content for free online.