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NBC Universal splashed out US$4.38 billion to acquire the most expensive national broadcast package in Olympic history on Tuesday as the network retained the US broadcast rights to the next four editions of the Games.
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Global Sports Media Consumption Report 2011: half of sports fans watching online started doing so in the last two years.
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Fox threw down the gauntlet to its rivals in the tender for the US broadcast rights to the Olympics on Monday by pledging to bid for a package covering four Games through to 2020.
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Tiger Woods is to part company with IMG after announcing he is staying with Mark Steinberg, the agent who helped to transform the golfer into the world’s first billion-dollar sportsman.
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Bwin has extended its commercial partnership with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) through to 2014.
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The German Football Federation (DFB) is confident of a battle between commercial and public-service broadcasters for the domestic rights for the DFB-Pokal which went on the market yesterday.
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The UK government has announced that Betfred has won the bid to buy state-owned bookmaker the Tote.
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MP & Silva has snapped up the European broadcast distribution rights to the French Open International Tennis Championships at Roland Garros in a five-year agreement.
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Half of all sports fans watching online have started doing so in the last two years, and a quarter now regularly turn to the internet for highlights or live coverage and not just for news, according to a new report.
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Sportfive has launched the tender for media rights within Hungary to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
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Eurosport is set to bolster its online offerings by launching a new pan-European sports website and free iPhone app dedicated to real-time scoring.
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Karish Andrews, Senior Associate at Lewis Silkin, on American investors with an eye for cross-border marketing opportunities.
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Hollywood star Russell Crowe has been credited as the catalyst behind a deal that has seen the National Rugby League (NRL) secure a major broadcast foothold in the United States.
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Manchester United has become the first English football club to earn more than £60 million in one season from Premier League broadcast income and prize money.
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The International Baseball Federation (IBAF) has appointed MP & Silva to act as the organisation’s exclusive international media advisor.
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Convers Sports Initiatives (CSI) has continued its expansion by purchasing a majority stake in online platform SportPost.com.
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Mediaset has snapped up the Spanish broadcast rights to UEFA Euro 2012, with the action set to be aired on the media giant’s Telecinco and Cuatro commercial platforms.
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CCTV-IMG Sports Management Company, a China-based joint venture between the country’s national broadcaster and IMG Worldwide, has announced a strategic partnership with Shanghai Racing Sports Corporation.