Ten Sports has acquired Pakistan rights to broadcast ICC cricket matches for the next three years as a sub-licensee of Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV).
Contenders in the bidding process included the Independent Media Group.
Taj Television, pills which runs Ten Sports had earlier on 22 December offered a bid of US $15 million for the rights. Independent Media Group had offered US $5 million.
Taj TV repeated the offer on 27 December which has finally been accepted by PTV.
TalkSport, the UTV-owned UK based sports talk radio station, has inked a seven figure deal to broadcast commentary from the Uefa Euro 2012 football championships in Poland and Ukraine.
As part of the deal TalkSport will broadcast all 31 Uefa Euro 2012 games live on its national AM licence, on digital radio and online at TalkSport.co.uk from the first game on Friday 8 June until the final on Sunday 1 July.
TalkSport has expanded the amount of tournaments it broadcasts commentary from in recent years with every week and .
England’s first game is on 11 June against France, while Ireland’s tournament starts on 10 June against Croatia.
but did not acquire rights to the tournament in 2008 after England failed to qualify.
A spokesman for TalkSport declined to comment on the cost of the rights but said the station will announce its commercial partners for the tournament in due course.
Moz Dee, programme director, TalkSport, said: “Major international sport tournaments are a huge draw for our listeners, as we’ve found with the Fifa World Cup in 2010 and the Rugby World Cup this year.
“With a team that includes Stan Collymore, Andy Gray and Richard Keys I believe we have some of the best sports broadcasters in the business and we’re the perfect place for listeners to follow all of the action next summer.”
BBC Radio Five also has the right to broadcast commentary from the Euro 2012.
FilmOn.com Inc., order ed | the US Division of the World’s largest Internet based HD television service, medicine have created two new college networks following their partnership with XOS Digital, the leading provider of content management solutions for Colleges and Professional sports organizations.
FilmOn founder and CEO Alki David, said: “We are very excited about adding NCAA games to our sports lineup. The roster will include current season and archival football and basketball to the FilmOn College Sports Networks.”
“Earlier this year we launched the World’s first Internet Soccer Channel with the UK Premiership and the Football Association. We recognize the fantastic value of sports in online television and we will continue to grow our offerings with up to the minute live sports in 2012. This starts with Live Russian Soccer from the Russian Premier League to be shown every week. We are going head to head with the industry’s top sports programmers, as well as creating new paradigms in the Internet Television Marketplace.”
Sports content distributor Perform Group announced today a four year deal with the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
Perform will manage and oversee the development of all media rights from the start of 2013 to the end of 2016, outside of the USA and Canada.
The agreement covers the 22 Premier WTA events, including the season-ending finale competition, the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships, currently held in Istanbul.
Perform will partner with IEC in Sports to sell, distribute and manage all broadcast relationships
Perform plans to double the number of current live matches produced, by increasing both the number of courts and days covered. In addition, Perform will provide extensive coverage of the WTA Tour on all its digital platforms, including TennisTV.com, the WTA’s and ATP World Tour’s official live streaming subscription website, ePlayer, the sports VOD broadcast platform that reaches over 90 million sports fans each month and Watch&Bet.
Stacey Allaster, President and CEO of the WTA, said “By partnering with a digital specialist in Perform, we will be able to merge technology across digital and broadcast, ensuring maximum worldwide exploitation of our Premier events on multiple platforms. WTA content will be delivered to our fans, commercial partners and members in a more compelling and efficient manner than ever before.”
Simon Denyer, Joint CEO of Perform, commented: “The WTA is a fantastic sports right property. There are very few sports rights that can match it for quality, volume and frequency, especially on weekdays. This new agreement underpins our tennis output until 2016 and allows us to implement a comprehensive digital strategy, creating a significant opportunity to launch new subscription products.
“We have a very longstanding commercial partnership with IEC in Sports in tennis dating back to 2005 that has been extremely successful for both parties. We look forward to extending our relationship with IEC in Sports.”
SCTV has won the rights to broadcast Champions League (CL) and Europa League (EL) football in Indonesia for the 2012-15 period, arthritis UEFA has announced.
SCTV will exploit the rights via its free-to-air channels SCTV and Indosiar, there and on its pay platform Nexmedia.
In respect of the UEFA Champions League, viagra order SCTV will broadcast one live match followed by a highlights programme each matchnight, as well as three delayed matches per matchweek. Indosiar will also broadcast a minimum of two delayed matches per matchweek. Nexmedia will complement this coverage by showing all remaining delayed matches, as well as one live match each matchnight.
With regard to the UEFA Europa League, SCTV will broadcast one live match per kick-off slot, as well as a highlights programme and two delayed matches each matchweek. Nexmedia will show all remaining matches on a delayed basis, as well as one live match per kick-off slot.
All rights have been granted on a platform-neutral basis, with the rights also being exploited via their website as well as on mobile.
SCTV will replace current rights holders RCTI and Indovision.
UEFA also awarded ELTA Taiwanese Rights to CL and EL while giving Sport TV Portuguese rights for the same period.
ELTA will broadcast one live CL game and a highlights programme per matchnight on ELTA TV Sports SD.
With regard to the UEFA Europa League, one live game per kick-off slot and a highlights programme will be broadcast each matchnight on ELTA TV Sports SD.
All matches broadcast on ELTA TV Sports SD will also be available in high-definition via ELTA TV Sports HD.
Sport TV will broadcast four live games per kick-off slot, as well as a highlights programme each matchweek across the Sport TV family of channels.
NFL’s showpiece, the Super Bowl will be streamed online for the first time in broadcast history.
The NFL and NBC announced that the network’s broadcasts of two wild card games, the Super Bowl and the Pro Bowl will stream on the NFL’s website, NBC Sports’ site and select mobile phones.
Viewers will be able tune in on their laptops, their tablets and even on their mobile phones — if they have Verizon — for Super Bowl XLVI, which takes place Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.
Hans Schroeder, the NFL’s Senior Vice President of Media Strategy and Development, said in a statement: “We are pleased to work with our partners NBC and Verizon to bring our fans more ways to watch their favorite sport during their favorite time of the year.”
While one has long been able to search for illegal streams of such games online, “NBC Postseason Extra” is the first time the league and a broadcast network are sanctioning online viewing for a game of this magnitude. NBC already streams “Sunday Night Football” online and on Verizon phones.
Last year’s Super Bowl, in which the Green Bay Packers defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25, set a new record with 111 million viewers. It remains the most-watched TV broadcast in U.S. history.
While NBC holds the rights to this year’s game, the Super Bowl currently rotates between CBS, NBC and Fox.
NHL Network U.S. and USA Hockey have agreed to a long-term extension of their media contract that will keep the Network as the exclusive television and streaming home for the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship in the United States through the 2018 event.
NHL Network U.S. will provide live broadcasts and NHL.com will provide live streams of the U.S. National Junior Team games at the 2012 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship, medstore Dec. 26 to Jan. 5. NHL Network also will televise all medal-round games and five additional preliminary-round match-ups, generic sale airing a total of 15 games in high-
This year’s event will take place in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, from Dec. 26-Jan. 5, and the U.S. will look to medal in the tournament for the third straight year. The last time the event was staged in Canada (2010), the United States beat Canada in overtime to capture gold.
NHL.com writers Mike Morreale and Aaron Vickers will cover all angles of the 2012 World Junior Championship, ranging from country-by-country tournament previews to daily live blogs to covering every game from Edmonton and Calgary starting Dec. 26. NHL.com will provide customized coverage in seven additional languages including Czech, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Slovak and Swedish, for fans to follow favorite players from their countries. Game highlights and full coverage of the 2012 World Junior Championship will be available at NHL.com and NHL.com/Draft.
“The IIHF World Junior Championship is not only a preeminent international hockey tournament, it has become known as the place to view future NHL stars,” said Bob Chesterman, NHL Network vice president of programming. “Viewers will see a high level of skill and talent and intense match-ups between rival countries. The World Junior Championship is an excellent complement to our NHL programming.”
“We’re extremely pleased to extend our partnership with the NHL Network,” said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey. “They’re passionate about televising the World Junior Championship and I think fans will notice continued enhancements in their coverage of Team USA and the tournament overall as time moves forward.”
Sigma TV has won the last remaining media rights for the 2012-15 UEFA Champions League in Cyprus, no rx UEFA has announced.
The free-to-air channel will broadcast the best Wednesday match each matchweek on a live basis, viagra 100mg as well as the final, cialis followed by a highlights programme. All rights have been granted on a platform-neutral basis, with the rights also being exploited on the internet via www.sigmatv.com, as well as on mobile.
This announcement follows on from the recent award of certain media rights for the 2012-15 UEFA Champions League to pay-TV operator Cyta, and concludes the sale of the UEFA Champions League media rights in the territory.
NFL’s Baltimore Ravens have extended their radio and television broadcast agreement with WBAL and its parent company, Hearst Broadcasting, for another five years.
The renewal of the deal allows for all Ravens games and team programming to stay on WBAL-TV 11, 98 Rock and 1090 WBAL Radio for the foreseeable future. It also allows for access throughout the state, including Eastern Shore areas where the team has been looking to increase its marketing efforts.
Mark Burdett, Ravens vice president of corporate sales and development, said: “On behalf of the entire Ravens organization, we are extremely pleased to have extended our partnership with Hearst Broadcasting.”
US based MMA organisation Strikeforce has agreed a new broadcast deal with Showtime that will keep the promotion on the cable network, the parties announced Thursday.
The new deal begins Jan. 7 and will feature a middleweight title fight between champion Luke Rockhold and former UFC light heavyweight Keith Jardine.
Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker said: “Showtime has been a great TV partner for us and we’re happy to renew our agreement with them. We’ve put on some really amazing events and we’re going to keep doing that with this new deal. We have a great core of talented fighters on our roster and MMA fans are in for a real treat.”
Showtime will to air between six to eight Strikeforce main-card bouts in 2012, and has the option to air additional events in 2013. All preliminary bouts in 2012 will be made available on Showtime Extreme.