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The National Football League (NFL) on Wednesday unveiled nine-year extensions of its Sunday broadcast television packages with CBS, Fox and NBC that will generate a total of more than US$3 billion per year for the League.
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday cancelled its lucrative broadcast rights agreement with Nimbus after claiming the company had defaulted on payments.
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UK public-service broadcaster the BBC and commercial broadcaster ITV have jointly acquired the rights for the UEFA Euro 2012 football tournament.
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Asian pay-television broadcaster ESPN Star Sports has sealed a new five-year rights deal for coverage of Cricket Australia’s domestic and home international matches across various platforms.
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Eurosport has strengthened its winter sports programming portfolio by agreeing a broadcast deal for the International Ski Federation’s (FIS) Viessmann FIS Tour de Ski.
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Doug Perlman explains why the NBC/Comcast merger will have the biggest impact on the future of the sports business.
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Modern Times Group (MTG) has prolonged its exclusive live rights agreement covering the Baltic region for the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship.
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Qatar-based satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera has significantly strengthened its presence in France by snapping up four of the country’s five media rights packages for the UEFA Champions League from 2012-15.
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Australia’s National Rugby League looks set to secure over A$1 billion (US$1.03 billion) for its next television rights deal after it emerged that the Ten Network could bid for the State of Origin series, according to The Australian newspaper.
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Nasser al-Khelaifi, the president of Al Jazeera Sport and chairman of French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), has been named Sports Innovator of the year by SportBusiness International magazine.
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The National Football League (NFL) has picked up the SportBusiness Ultimate Digital Sports Award for 2011 after edging out strong competition from the English Premier League teams and Rugby World Cup.
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MP & Silva has held off strong competition from rival agencies to retain the international broadcast rights to Serie A in a deal that has reportedly secured a major fee increase for Italy’s top football league.
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Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment is planning to launch a regional sports channel in 2015, when the ice hockey team’s local television rights contract expires, according to Canadian website Thestar.com.
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The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has resurrected its partnership with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for distribution of major event media rights in Europe and Africa from 2014-17.
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British public-service broadcaster the BBC confirmed on Wednesday that it had extended its deal to broadcast the RBS 6 Nations rugby union championship through to 2017 across its television, radio and online platforms.
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John Skipper has been promoted to succeed ESPN president George Bodenheimer, who will relinquish his day-to-day responsibilities at the sports media giant on January 1, 2012.
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Indian pay-television broadcaster Ten Sports has splashed out what has been described as a “record licence fee” to secure a long-term broadcast deal to carry International Hockey Federation (FIH) action through to 2014.
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The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) has renewed its partnership with the TeamFanShop e-commerce service.