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Sky Deutschland: operating profit of €34.8 million in 2013, the first since its acquisition in 2009

Sky Deutschland generated sales of €1.546 billion in 2013, up 16% compared to 2012 (€1.333 billion), announced the German pay-TV group on 05/02/2014. For the first time since its acquisition by News Corp (now 21st Century Fox) in 2008 and its launch under the brand Sky Deutschland in February…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Finance
• Article # 14536
• Published on 07/02/14 at 16:59
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beIN Sports available in Thailand since 05/02/2014 on the pay-TV platform TrueVisions

Qatari pay-TV channel beIN Sports has teamed up with the Thai pay-TV operator TrueVisions, and is now broadcast in Thailand since 05/02/2014. The Qatari group, in partnership with the media and marketing rights agency MP & Silva, had announced on 01/07/2013 they would launch beIN Sport 1 HD in…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies
• Article # 14473
• Published on 06/02/14 at 15:32
NFL: record audience for the 48th Super Bowl (111.5 million viewers in the United States)

With 111.5 million American viewers, the 48th edition of the Super Bowl, held on 02/02/2014 near New York at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey (United States), has become the most watched event in the history of American television. The game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Stadiums, …
• Article # 14383
• Published on 05/02/14 at 12:42
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UK: financial results for BT Group are up, and over 2.5 million subscribers for BT Sport

BT Group, owner of the pay-TV channel BT Sport, achieved a turnover of £4.59 billion (€5.54 billion) during the third quarter of fiscal year 2013 (from 01/10 to 31/12/2013), an increase of 2% from the same quarter 12 months earlier (£4.52 billion, €5.46 billion), announced the British…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Finance
• Article # 14366
• Published on 04/02/14 at 17:35
"The World Cup will mark a turning point in the use of the second screen" (JS Cruz, Netco Sports)

"In 2014, we will witness the first World Cup with a mobile audience of over one billion smartphones worldwide. This will be the first World Cup to be truly multimedia," said Jean-Sébastien Cruz, founder and CEO of Netco Sports, supplier of mobile solutions and applications in the field of sport…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Digital, …
• Article # 14287
• Published on 04/02/14 at 16:30
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The British government refuses to extend the opening hours of pubs for 2014 World Cup

The Home Office, the executive department of the British government in charge of domestic policy, refused, on 02/02/2014, the request of the BBPA (British Beer and Pub Association) to extend the opening hours of British pubs during the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The BBPA asked that the pubs be…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Legal, …
• Article # 14309
• Published on 04/02/14 at 11:41
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BSkyB set to target pay-TV non-subscribers with TV on-demand

Pay-TV and Internet service provider group British BSkyB presented its innovations and goals for 2014 during the announcement of its results for the first half of 2014 (01/07-13/12/2013), on the 30/01/2014.Among the items included in the spring 2014 launch is a package providing access to the Now…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Digital
• Article # 14211
• Published on 31/01/14 at 16:28
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TV rights: FFF choose France Télévisions and Eurosport (Lot 1) and D8/D17 (Lots 2 and 3)

The French Football Federation (FFF) awarded the 2014-2018 rights to broadcast the men's and women's Coupes de France and the French women's championship top division to the public broadcaster France Télévisions and pay-TV channel Eurosport France, on the 30/01/2014. The two companies, which…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Finance, …
• Article # 14210
• Published on 31/01/14 at 11:29
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Bundesliga: three matches broadcast live every weekend in Asia, from 2015-16

American television group FIC (Fox International Channels), a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, will broadcast live at least three Bundesliga matches every weekend in Asia from 2015-16, said Hernan Lopez, President and CEO of FIC, to the German website Sponsors, on the the 28/01/2014. Media…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs
• Article # 14168
• Published on 30/01/14 at 15:38
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Premier League: Discovery and Eurosport interested in TV rights of the championship after 2016

The U.S. media group Discovery Communications, the majority shareholder of the pay-TV group Eurosport International, is interested in the acquisition of the domestic distribution rights to the Premier League at the end of the current 2013-2016 cycle, says the British newspaper The Guardian, on the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies
• Article # 14090
• Published on 29/01/14 at 12:48