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Al Jazeera Aims to Score with Soccer
Qatar-based Al Jazeera has initiated “informal contacts” with Barcelona-based Mediapro to explore the possibility of acquiring Spanish soccer league TV rights from September 2015.
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The Fox Sports 1 End Run
While Murdoch & Co.’s grand plan appears to have come together almost perfectly, there was a larger game of chess going on than many investors realized.
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Time Warner Cable Sued Over Spending on Lakers, Dodgers Rights
Time Warner Cable is being hit with a class action suit by four Southern California pay TV subscribers, who claim that the $11 billion the cable operator has paid for Lakers and Dodgers rights will be...
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Should Major League Baseball Offer TV Rebates for Peddling a Juiced Product?
The hits just keep on coming for Major League Baseball, with reports that several more big-name players will accept suspensions — with the most prominent rule-breaker being Yankees star Alex Rodriguez...
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Sports Fans: Get Ready to Spend More Money to Watch Your Favorite Teams
Sports fans, get ready to shell out more coin to watch your fave teams skirmish on TV. Not a sports nut? Well, you’re going to pay more, too, if you want to get traditional television service from a...
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ESPN Strives to Maintain Its Lead As Competition Heats Up
As media conglomerates other than owner Walt Disney launch their own sports-focused cablers, the question is whether the Bristol, Conn.-based powerhouse can dominate the field or if it must share the...
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Huge Upside for Launch of Fox Sports 1 and 2 Channels
On Aug. 17, viewers will wake up to find the lower-key Speed and Fuel networks transformed into high-adrenaline national sports channels intended to make an immediate impression — among sports fans and...
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Al Jazeera Zeroes in on Sports Rights
Will Al Jazeera change the world of global sports the way it changed global news?
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Fox Sports 1 Set to Launch with Major Pay TV Operators, But Not All Have...
Fox announced Thursday that its new national sports network — Fox Sports 1 — is set to debut Saturday with all major cable, satellite and telco TV operators, but while it will be carried by DirecTV,...
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Hollywood Shows Interest in Sports Powerhouse IMG
With the deadline this week for the first round of bidding for IMG Worldwide, the focus in the industry is whether any number of entertainment players would emerge as a serious suitor for the sports...
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