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The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow?s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.
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UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports has secured the exclusive live rights to the UEFA Cup home ties involving English Premiership clubs Leeds United and Chelsea.
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Argentine soccer players are planning to go on strike for the second time this year over unpaid wages and bonuses.
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A new sport betting service based on derivative-style contracts will launch this week in the UK.
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Asian satellite broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has renewed its deal for the exclusive rights to Major League Baseball (MLB) in a new two-year agreement.
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ESPN has sold out of its sponsorship packages for the seventh annual X Games to be held in mid-August in Philadelphia.
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The World Professional Pool Championships was the most watched sports programme on cable networks across Chinese Taipei during July according to host broadcaster ESPN.
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According to figures from the Institution of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), UK viewing audiences for terrestrial broadcasters have dropped to a record low.
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The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is looking to broadcast all of its tournaments over the internet.
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Chrysalis, the media company which produces ITV?s coverage of Formula One in the UK, is looking to sell its minority stakes in two of its internet investments and pump the money from the disposals into its wholly owned internet sports network Rivals.net.
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New Zealand television production firm On Site Broadcasting (OSB) has signed a five-year domestic contract to handle all satellite broadcaster BSkyB?s coverage of sporting events in the country.
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Former international rugby union player Nigel Walker has been appointed the head of sport for UK terrestrial broadcaster, BBC Wales.
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US satellite platform, DirecTV is running a new promotion which offers $300 (?342.90) worth of free programming to new subscribers to its `NFL Sunday Ticket? pay-per-view package.
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UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV has signed a #5 million ($7.1m) deal for the rights to the Tour de France cycling race beginning with next year?s competition.
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English soccer club Wimbledon has signed a two-year sponsorship deal with a controversial muscle-building supplement firm.
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Walt Disney Co's ABC and ESPN units say US golfer Tiger Woods will appear in several special events for the two television networks over the next five years, in a widely expected deal.
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A new digital sports channel to be launched by UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV helped secure the British coverage of the next two Rugby World Cups in a deal worth at least #40million ($57m/?65.14) to the International Rugby Board (IRB).
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Spanish language pay-TV operator Pan-American Sports Network (PSN) has announced that it has acquired the live rights to Mexican football for Latin America excluding Brazil.
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