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This weekend?s Rugby World Cup final between France and Australia drew an audience of over 14 million French television viewers or 79.6 percent of those watching French TV at the time, TV group TF1 has said.
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Total Sports, the online sports new media company that focuses on providing real-time, event-centred sports coverage, has completed the offering of approximately 2,100,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock to certain institutional investors.
Business

Sports TV company Sportsworld Media has struck a #22.4 million deal to buy Australian Media Holdings, the TV and sports sponsorship group.
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An Anglo-American group is interested in Italian Serie A Bologna, club chairman Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara has said.
Events

Australia's telecommunications giant Telstra Corp Ltd said it had talked to the Australian Football League (AFL), but it was not in the process of bidding for the pay TV or Internet rights of the game.
Business

Soccer's world governing body FIFA is to lay down new guidelines to control on-screen virtual advertising during televised matches.
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European broadcaster CLT-Ufa has confirmed it was in talks with Rupert Murdoch to buy selected television rights to European Champions' League soccer.
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SportsJuice.com, a Desktop Live company, has signed a two-year deal to be the exclusive online webcasters for the North American Football League and its 60 member teams.
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NBC and Turner Sports cable television have signed a three year deal contract worth more than $90m (#55m) for the American rights for Wimbledon.
Media

MVP.com board members John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, joined CEO John Costello in launching MVP.com, the online destination for high-quality sports, fitness, and outdoor gear and apparel.
Business

Sponsors of horse racing events at the UK's top racecourses have warned the so-called "Super 12" not to sell their broadcasting rights to BSkyB, reports The Guardian newspaper.
Business

The Fleet Financial Group in Boston has announced that it will supply a $405m credit line to Major League Baseball.
Events

Hungary hopes to score a first on the Internet by broadcasting a soccer game live on the web later this month, a local sports newspaper reported.
Business

The English Football Association has announced a five-year extension to its existing agreement with national team kit supplier Umbro.
Events

The cancellation of Saturday's heavyweight-championship bout between Evander Holyfield and Henry Akinwande has left the cable industry with a sizable bill.
Business

US racetrack operator Churchill Downs has appointed John H. Willie senior vice president, marketing, from the end of the month..
Business

WEMBLEY, the leisure group, is handing back cash to investors by way of a share buy-back. Almost half its capital will be returned to shareholders following the planned #103m sale of its stadium to English National Stadium Trust.
Media

A new study into the potential impact of the $A5 billion Docklands development in Melbourne, which includes a major new stadium project, concludes that the city's Central Business District propertymarket could be squeezed.