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The Spanish Football League (LFP) has announced it will stage an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday in a bid to resolve a dispute that is threatening the start of the 2012-13 season.
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Eredivisie Media and Marketing (EMM), the media arm of Dutch football’s top flight, the Eredivisie, has sold a 51% stake in the company to Fox International Channels, a broadcast subsidiary of News Corporation, for a reported Eur1 billion.
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The European Union of Gymnastics (UEG) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) have agreed a four-year extension to their all-inclusive global media rights and services deal.
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The Scottish Premier League (SPL) has become the latest football competition to agree a partnership with YouTube after sealing a three-year deal with the video-sharing platform.
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US media giant Turner Broadcasting System has bolstered its presence in the sports digital market by acquiring the Bleacher Report website in a deal reportedly worth in the region of US$200 million.
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The French Open tennis tournament has secured enhanced exposure in the United States after signing an extension to its long-running broadcast rights deal with NBC Sports Group.
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Atletico de Madrid has joined the chorus of Primera Division clubs calling for change in Spanish football’s broadcast rights model, claiming that the future of the domestic game is under threat.
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The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) has become the latest major sporting event to partner with YouTube, with organisers announcing that the entire debut season of the Twenty20 cricket tournament will be streamed live.
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UK pay-television broadcaster ESPN has followed rival BSkyB in maintaining its commitment to the Scottish Premier League (SPL) by signing a new five-year broadcast deal.
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The Olympic Games will return to CBC in 2014 after the Canadian public-service broadcaster secured the rights to the next two editions of the Games.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stated it has no regrets over fully embracing social media platforms such as Twitter, despite the London Olympics being marred by athletes’ ill-judged tweets and other athletes being abused online.
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UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has confirmed a new five-year broadcast deal for the Scottish Premier League (SPL), with the agreement also set to include coverage of Rangers matches.
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Hockey India has secured a multi-year broadcast agreement with ESPN Star Sports (ESS) for the new Hockey India League (HIL), with the contract also granting the pan-Asian sports broadcaster rights to national team games.
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Chinese state-owned network CCTV has retained the broadcast rights for the next two editions of the Olympic Games.
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Glasgow 2014 has appointed the Fast Track agency to represent the sale of the global broadcast rights to the Scottish city’s staging of the Commonwealth Games.
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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has announced that it will seek to market its rapidly developing brand in-house after reaching an agreement to end its partnership with Sportfive.
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Broadcast rights revenue for the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games is expected to exceed US$4 billion, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge told the IOC Session in London on Tuesday.
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The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) has secured significant exposure ahead of its debut next month after ESPN Star Sports (ESS) agreed a multi-year broadcast deal for the new Twenty20 cricket tournament.