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Barcelona may have won the Champions League but it seems like Manchester United might have had the last laugh as financial figures brought out by UEFA suggest United received more revenue for their Champions League campaign.

Manchester United top the list with a $76.6 million share thanks to a higher percentage of the TV market pool. United received payments of $39.2 million for its performances from the group stage onwards, and another $37.4 million from the television market pool.

Meanwhile, Barcelona’s Champions League triumph earned the club $73.3 million. The Catalan giant’s performance-related payments amounted to $44.1 million, while it also collected $29.2 million from the TV market pool.

The report detailed that a total of over one billion was distributed to clubs competing in the Champions League last season. The prize money allotted to the 32 teams who figured from the group stage onwards consisted of $593.3 million in fixed amounts plus $490.1 million from the market pool. United’s financial superiority can be explained by the fact that more fans watched their games on national TV.

Other than United and Barcelona, the top-five financial winners from the 2010-11 Champions League were rounded out by Chelsea ($64 million), FC Schalke 04 ($57 million) and Real Madrid ($56.5 million). Schalke and Madrid both reached the semi-finals of the competition, while Chelsea was knocked out at the quarter final stage by United.

An unprecedented event is about to happen after Facebook will broadcast the FA Cup match with Budweiser between Ascot United and Wembley FC live on the social networking site.

The stream will be funded by the FA Cup’s new sponsors Budweiser, and is the first broadcast of its kind anywhere in sport.

The extra preliminary round tie pits minnows Ascot United against Wembley FC and will be streamed straight from the Budweiser UK Facebook fan page. The 90-minute live stream will be available on friday via an application Budweiser has built specifically for the world’s largest social network. It will open up a game that would traditionally attract around 90 spectators to Facebook’s 700 million global users.

Budweiser marketing director Ian Newell said: “Budweiser is committed to bringing the world’s most prestigious knockout competition closer to the fans. What better way to demonstrate this than by broadcasting the very first kick to a global audience via Facebook?

“This is the first time an FA Cup tournament fixture has been broadcast live on the social network, which is great news for football fans and clubs alike.”

Ascot, who play their football in the Hellenic League, take on Combined Counties side Wembley at the Racecourse Ground in one of 204 extra preliminary-round fixtures.

This year’s FA Cup will have 763 clubs competing, with an extra-preliminary round, a preliminary round, and four qualifying rounds for some teams before the first round proper takes place the weekend of 12th November.

Traditionally Premier League sides will join the competition in the third round at the beginning of January 2012.

The final will take place on 5th May 2012 at Wembley Stadium  less than two miles from Wembley FC’s home ground.

International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), commercial partner, Dentsu has sealed rights to cover 10 Asianterritories and a selection of Pacific Islands for the IAAF World Championships later this month.

The World Championships are on the horizon with less than a fortnight to go before the South Korean city of Daegu host the spectacle starting August 27.

The IAAF stated that free-to-air agreements had been reached in Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Macao, Mongolia, Myanmar, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Timor, Fiji and Papua New Guinea as well as an array of smaller islands.

Lamine Diack, IAAF President, said: “The Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union agreement is especially welcome news as it closes TV sales for Daegu 2011 for territories outside Africa and Europe.”

 

BBC has announced details of their plans to broadcast the London 2012 Olympics which will undoubtedly be the biggest event in the Corporation’s 85-year history.

BBC Three for the first time will show extended coverage of the Olympics different from their normal three hours a day.Radio 5 adding another digital channel as a temporary measure during the Games and extending the the expansion of the video online hours on its website.

The coverage on BBC Three will cost about $7.3 million with the channel providing live coverage during the day. 

BBC Three usually only airs in the evenings, but the channel will provide London 2012 Games coverage during the day before normal programming will resume at 11pm local time.

Roger Mosey, BBC director of London, said: “We will extend BBC Three’s hours during the Games so that it can offer a daytime sport service alongside our earlier decision that BBC Three would be one of the channels carrying Olympic coverage in peak,” said Roger Mosey, the BBC’s director of London 2012. 

“This means that for the key moments from the start of the morning sessions onwards we will have both BBC One and BBC Three in play as flagship services delivering the best live action.

“This is being achieved partly by using the BBC Parliament bandwidth as we did in Beijing [at the 2008 Olympics], but making it easier to find by putting it under the BBC Three banner rather than as an additional red button stream.

“What this adds up to, we believe, is something that will greatly add to the enjoyment we can offer to sports fans. 

“This is building towards our most ambitious Games-time service ever, recognising our role as the host nation broadcaster in 2012.

“But it also means significant areas of the schedule – like BBC Two peak and BBC Four or our other network radio services – will not be over-run by athletes, and they can focus on what they do best including some of the Cultural Olympiad.

“Now that the [BBC] Trust has approved the management plans, we can sharpen the day-by-day planning – and we’ll report back here in the coming months on the detail.

“We want to do justice to the biggest sporting event on the planet and to the story of 2012 as a truly exceptional year.

“But we also want to make sure that we don’t remove other people’s favourite programmes and that there are sanctuaries for people who don’t want to go Olympic-crazy.”

ABC, allergist ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to present all 32 games of the 2011 Little League World Series held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania between Aug 18-28.

ABC is showing its 49 consecutive year of Little League World Series coverage and will broadcast both the International Championship and the United States Championship on Saturday, Aug. 27, at 12 p.m. ET and 3 p.m., respectively. ABC will then present the Little League World Series Championship on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 3 p.m.  Overall, ABC will broadcast five games from Williamsport.

This is ESPN’s 23 consecutive year of Little League World Series coverage, dating back to 1989. ESPN and ESPN2 will combine to televise 27 Little League World Series games from Williamsport. All ESPN and ESPN2 telecasts will be simulcast via ESPN3.com and nearly all games will be available on ESPN Mobile TV. Fans who receive their cable TV video subscription from an affiliated provider will be able to tune in live via the WatchESPN app on tablets and smartphones.

ESPN will also televise the Little League Web Gems/World Series Preview, which will recap the best defensive plays of the tournament and preview the Little League World Series Championship, on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 1 p.m. Karl Ravech will host the show with reporter Kyle Peterson.

ESPN STAR Sports has won the broadcast rights in Asia for the Rugby World Cup 2011 to be held in New Zealand it was announced by Rugby World Cup Limited (RWCL).

The deal involves, ESPN STAR sports broadcasting all 48 matches live across 13 territories in Asia, ensuring that sports fans will see every try, tackle and pass of Rugby’s premier event.

This will be supplemented with dedicated streaming and video on demand through ESPN Player and MobileESPN in Singapore and weekly highlights programming in several territories.

Rugby participation in Asia has grown by 18% since Rugby World Cup 2007 in France and the announcement further underlines ESPN STAR Sports’ commitment to bring the very best Rugby action to sports fans in Asia.

“Asia is a major growth region for Rugby and the IRB is committed to ensuring that sports fans across the Region are able to experience our showcase event,” said RWCL Managing Director Mike Miller.

“ESPN STAR Sports is recognised as Asia’s leading sports broadcaster and through extensive Rugby World Cup 2011 programming, it will deliver the platform for Rugby to engage new fans across the Region.”

ESPN STAR Sports Managing Director, Manu Sawhney, said: “We are delighted to bring the third largest sporting event in the world to Rugby fans across Asia. We have a proud history of Rugby programming and have screened every RWC tournament since 1999, which underscores our commitment to bring the best in worldwide sports to our viewers in Asia.”

Terms of deal will see ESPN STAR Sports broadcast all the action in Singapore, China, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Korea, Laos, Macau, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Vietnam.

Rugby World Cup 2011 kicks off on September 9 with the final will be played on October. 23.

NFL Network drew a record 737, generic ed 000 average viewers for the prime time Around the League: Preseason 2011 special which is a 767 percent increase on the same night a year ago.

The special show marked NFL Network’s highest-ever prime time August viewership for a non-game telecast. The show featured live look-ins on pre-season games

NFL Digital Media properties, including NFL.com, NFL Mobile Only from Verizon and other NFL mobile products, also drew the highest numbers ever for the first day of a NFL preseason, growing unique visitors by 86 percent over the same day in 2010. Fans also streamed 138 percent more NFL.com video than last year. In addition, more than twice as many fans have subscribed to NFL.com Preseason Live –which offers live preseason games with DVR functionality — than did for the entire 2010 preseason.

Also last Thursday, NFLN’s tape-delayed telecast of Ravens-Eagles at 11:00 PM ET drew 756,000 viewers – an 84 percent increase over last year’s game in the same time period (Saints-Patriots). The game was also the most-watched late night preseason re-air in the network’s history.

Saturday night’s live Packers-Browns telecast will rank among the three most-watched preseason telecasts in NFL Network history with more than one million viewers tuning in.

The final round of the PGA Championship drew a 14 percent lower major-market television rating than the final round a year ago.

The golf season’s final major tournament, treatment which was won in a playoff by Keegan Bradley, abortion was seen yesterday on Network CBS in an average of 4.3 percent of U.S. homes in the top 56 markets, see Gerard Caraccioli, a spokesman for the CBS Corporation network, said in an e-mail.

That’s 14 percent lower than the 5.0 major-market rating the tournament got last year, when Germany’s Martin Kaymer won in a playoff at Whistling Straights in Kohler, Wisconsin, beating Bubba Watson.

Last year ratings were poor as it was down 33% comparable to the year before Kaymer won his first major.

 

The Norwegian Professional Football League (NPFL) has signed a partnership with international digital sports media company Perform in order to overhaul the league’s digital and commercial offerings.

Perform will design, build, manage and commercialise 32 club websites including video and audio players, a central portal for the top two leagues in Norway and a network of mobile websites and applications for a variety of mobile operating platforms including IOS and Android.

As part of the multi-year deal, Perform will integrate NPFL video highlights and news into its online video on demand broadcast platform ePlayer.

Niels Røine, CEO of the Norwegian Professional Football League, said: “The idea of creating a network of sites makes perfect sense for all involved and will ensure an innovative and flexible platform for the clubs, which in turn will provide a more engaging and content-rich, digital experience for the fans, In Perform we have a partner who not only has the technology, but also the commercial experience and distribution platforms to reach millions of fans.”

Oliver Slipper, joint-CEO of Perform, added: “We’re delighted to be partnering with the Norwegian Professional Football League. They very much understand the power of the network and this partnership will allow the NPFL a number of exciting digital commercialisation opportunities.”