Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) have announced today a three-year exclusive partnership with Ten Golf, ed an exclusive golf channel, dosage pills which will be launched next month.

The deal provides Ten Golf with the broadcasting rights for all PGTI-sanctioned tournaments within and outside the country from 2012-2014. 

Ten Golf will broadcast a weekly show titled “Inside the PGTI”. This show will highlight the best golfing action from PGTI events and will feature golfers on the PGTI circuit. The sports channel will also air special promos and fillers based on Indian golfers and the PGTI tour. 

“It is good to have a channel that gives exposure to the Indian golfers. It is very important to have a platform where we are seen, viagra 60mg it also helps to get sponsors,” former Asian Tour number one, Jyoti Randhawa said. 

Rising Indian golfer Manav Jaini also endorsed the partnership and said it will help Indian golf. 

“We needed a channel to support Indian golf, now it would be easier to place a face to the name of the golfers,” he said. 

Announcing the partnership, Padamjit Sandhu, director, PGTI, said, “We are excited about the partnership. In the last four and a half years we have marched ahead and grown reasonably well and we are confident that the expertise, knowledge and bandwidth of Ten golf will substantially help us to take Indian golf to the next level. 

“We are today at a stage where it is important for us to showcase the depth of Indian talent and their achievements with the support of a professional electronic medium. 

“To further grow golf, and project the opportunities and the potential the sport has, it is important to have a strong broadcast partner. With Ten Golf we see strong synergies,” he added. 

Taj Television India Private Limited CEO, Atul Pande added: , “Our tie-up with PGTI will help in strengthing the Indian Tour. We will be working closely with Asian Tour and European Tour to bring world class golf action for viewers in India and the subcontinent.” 

“We will start with live coverages of European tours and highlights of PGTI events. We will have specific contents on Indian golfers. We will work with the top 50 golfers in the PGTI and do there profiling but all this will take a bit of time,” he said. 

Ten Golf will be the latest addition to their extensive current roster offered by Taj Television Limited, whose portfolio includes Ten Sports, Ten Cricket, Ten Action+, Ten HD. TEN bouquet of channel reaches 100 million households across India.

The International Olympic Commitee (IOC) has awarded Japanese broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics to a national consortium in a $472 million deal.

The Japan Consortium includes state broadcaster NHK and the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters of Japan.

Four years ago, discount the same group paid what is now $426 million for rights to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and 2012 London Olympics.

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said in a statement his organization is “delighted” to continue its relationship with the Japanese consortium.”

The 2014 Winter Games will be in Sochi, Russia. Rio de Janeiro will host the 2016 Summer Games.

Sky Sports has announced that its new Sky Sports F1 HD channel, which will go active in March, will also broadcast support Motorsport series GP2 and GP3.

In 2012, GP2 have an extended calendar after combining its Main and Asia Series, whereas GP3 will be in action over European Formula 1 weekends.

This year, the United Kingdom has a split television deal for F1, with Sky showing all races live on a pay-per-view package as the BBC broadcasts ten live events free-to-air, starting with Round 3 in China. On top of its support race coverage, Sky has confirmed that its weekly magazine show – hosted by Georgie Thompson and Ted Kravitz – will also provide coverage, analysis and discussions between races.

“We are delighted to be showing GP2 and GP3 live on Sky Sports F1 HD,” says Martin Turner, Sky’s Executive Producer. “There are six former GP2 Champions in Formula 1 this season, including Lewis Hamilton and last year’s winner Romain Grosjean. The series promises nail-biting and fascinating racing and we’ll track gifted drivers through the ranks as they aim for Formula 1.”

GP2 will begin in Malaysia, with GP3 kicking off in Barcelona.

Lingerie Football League a women’s 7-on-7 American Football tournament has teamed up with MTV2 to bring the Lingerie Bowl IX broadcast to millions of viewers this Super Bowl Sunday LIVE from Las Vegas’ Orleans Arena, Kickoff – 4pm ET / 1 pm PT.

In 2012, the Lingerie Bowl IX broadcast will no longer counter-program the Super Bowl halftime show, instead it will be broadcast in advance of kickoff of Super Bowl XLVI. The broadcast will also be shown in another 45 countries outside of the US.

Since premiering in 2004, opposite Super Bowl XXXVIII’s famed Janet Jackson ‘wardrobe malfunction’ halftime show, the Lingerie Bowl broadcast has become part of the culture of Super Bowl Sunday television viewing for millions around the world.

The success of the previous Lingerie Bowl broadcasts gave birth to the formation of a league called the Lingerie Football League (LFL) in 2009, which has now become the fastest growing sports league in the country.

This past weekend, the LFL’s Conference Playoffs were nationally broadcast on MTV2 with the winners Philadelphia Passion of the Eastern Conference and the Los Angeles Temptation of the Western Conference advancing for the second straight season to play each other on one of football’s biggest stages, Lingerie Bowl IX. Last year in Lingerie Bowl VIII, the Los Angeles Temptation beat the Philadelphia Passion in a 26-25 thriller.

Lingerie Football League (or LFL) broadcast nationally on MTV Networks’ MTV2 channel has become US’ fastest growing pro sports league, having drawn sell-out crowds, record internet traffic, aggressive expansion both domestic with (5) expansion markets introduced in 2011 and international with LFL Canada premiering in 2012, LFL Australia (2013) and LFL Europe (2014).

In comparison to popular sports franchises such as the Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC) or World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) through their first two seasons of operation, the LFL has achieved far more growth, national television viewership, attendance and business prosperity through the same period of time.

Clear Channel Satellite (CCS) has finalized a multi-year partnership with KLAC AM 570 Fox Sports, patient the Flagship station for Los Angeles Dodgers.

CCS will provide the space segment as they move their English-language radio broadcasts from 790 KABC to KLAC AM 570. The contract covers all 162 regular season games, the postgame show – DodgerTalk, any potential postseason games and at least seven spring training games to be broadcast on AM 570 and the 22 affiliates of the Dodgers Radio Network.

“We are excited to have another Major League Baseball team being delivered via satellite to radio affiliates,” said Monty Dent, Sales Manager, Clear Channel Satellite. The network will be utilizing Clear Channel Satellite’s StarGuide III Platform.

KLAC AM 570 Fox Sports is not only the Flagship station for the Dodgers, they are also the Flagship station for the San Diego Chargers, Los Angeles Kings, UCLA Bruins and the Los Angeles Galaxy. Broadcasting since 1924 under the call letters KFPG, KMTR and finally KLAC, they are one of only a handful of stations established in 1924 that are still on the air.

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StarGuide is a digital multimedia distribution system and the best value for delivering both audio content and spots to affiliates. In North America, 8 out of 10 radio stations have a StarGuide satellite receiver available for receiving radio network content.

The Big Sky Conference has agreed a deal with DirecTV Sports Networks for its Root Sports network to replace Altitude Sports as its official TV partner for Big Sky football and men’s basketball starting this summer.

The five-year deal was made with DirecTV Sports Networks, which owns the Root Sports networks. Root Sports consists of three networks which has more than 8.7 million viewers across 18 states.

The change will begin with the 2012 football season. The deal was set for broadcasting up to 18 Big Sky football games and 12 Big Sky basketball conference games each season, as well as the Big Sky quarterfinal and semifinal men’s basketball tournament games.

Each game will broadcast in high definition with state-of-the-art graphic elements customized for the Big Sky, but no definitive schedule has been set yet for each team’s air-time.

Sacramento State Athletic Director Terry Wanless said the move, which takes place on July 1, is going to be a great chance for Sac State to be seen all around.

“It’s an exciting opportunity for us as a league because it gives us by far the greatest number of exposures,” Wanless said.

The previous deal with Altitude cost the Big Sky $100,000 among nine schools, which was about $11,000 per school.

Wanless said the new deal with Root Sports would save Sac State and the other Big Sky schools the money and bring them some money too.

“Right now, (the Big Sky) is paying a company, Altitude Sports, $11,000 per school to cover football only,” Wanless said. “We are going to save $11,000 immediately, plus were going to get some residual dollars back from this contract.”

The Football Association of Singapore (FAS) has withdrawn from next year’s Asian Champions League in protest against a ban on foreign teams, it has been announced.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has ruled that top leagues across Asia cannot contain foreign team, but the Singapore’s S.League has three – Chinese club Beijing Guoan, Japanese side Albirex Niigata and Etoile FC of France.

Chief of the FAS, Zainudin Nordin, said: “We concluded that due to our current lack of critical mass in key areas such as talent pool and resources, there is still a pressing need for us to continue having foreign teams participating in our league, to help address these gaps in our game and safeguard the sustainability of our league in football excellence, commercial and financial terms.”

President of the AFC, Mohamed Bin Hammam, added: “We have taken on board the situation of the FAS. We hope they will consider seeking direct entry to the ACL soon.

“It is hard to see Singapore out of AFC’s professional football activities in spite of their great potential. We will work hard towards seeing them playing an active role in our professional football programmes in the future.”

CBS Sports Network and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference (NCHC) announced Tuesday the two parties have agreed on a multi-year deal to televise games beginning in the 2013-14 season, asthma the league’s inaugural campaign.

The agreement calls for a minimum of 18 conference games to be broadcast, ed including the NCHC’s tournament semifinal and championship games.

“With top teams and passionate fan bases, medic the National is poised to be an elite college hockey conference and we’re thrilled to be the national television partner,” CBS Sports Network Senior Vice President Dan Weinberg said. “College hockey has been a staple of our programming and we’re pleased to expand our coverage and further serve fans with compelling and competitive conference action.”

Western Michigan University officially joined the NCHC on Sept. 22 after the league was formed last July.

Conference commissioner Jim Scherr said he’s excited about the exposure the league will receive with the new television deal.

“We are delighted to be associated with the preeminent national broadcaster of college hockey,” Scherr said. “It is our goal to be the premier single-sport conference in intercollegiate athletics and the unmatched exposure and production quality that will be provided by CBS Sports Network will contribute significantly to realizing that vision.”

Joining WMU in the new conference will be Miami, Minnesota-Duluth, Nebraska-Omaha, Denver, Colorado College, North Dakota and St. Cloud State.

League One football club Sheffield Wednesday has said that going into administration will not solve the side’s financial problems.

Wednesday has been served with a second winding-up petition by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) over an outstanding bill of £600,000 (US$946,000).

The petition will be heard in the High Court on 17 November.

The club has debts of over £27 million (US$42.6 million) and chairman Howard Wilkinson and chief executive Nick Parker are currently negotiating with three potential investors.

A club statement read: “Ongoing talks with a lead investment party and others remain extremely positive. One investment group has pledged to pay HMRC £600,000 as a token of its commitment to concluding a deal at the club and we continue to monitor that situation.”