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Scandinavia: Swedish Modern Times Group acquires TV rights to the FA Cup and Championship

MTG (Modern Times Group) has acquired the exclusive broadcasting rights to the Emirates FA Cup, the Community Shield, the EFL Cup, and the Sky Bet Championship division, valid in Sweden, Finland, and Norway from this year, and in Denmark from the following year, announced the Swedish audiovisual…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 93756
• Published on 18/05/17 at 13:30
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BT Consumer: £4.934bn in turnover in 2017 (+7.3%), 20.5% of the BT Group total (£24.062bn)

BT Consumer, the division of the British telecommunications group BT, which includes BT Sport, posted £4.934bn (€5.81bn) in turnover for the 2017 fiscal year (01/04/2016 to 31/03/2017), the group announced on 11/05/2017. This amount is up by 7.3% compared to 2016 (£4.598bn, €5.84bn at the time)…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Finance, …
• Article # 93650
• Published on 18/05/17 at 12:50
Eredivisie: IMG extends its international media rights for four more seasons, 2018-2022

IMG has extended its international media rights to the Eredivisie for the next four seasons, starting from 2018-19, announced the media rights and marketing agency on 11/05/2017. The new agreement also includes the right to broadcast on digital platforms outside the Netherlands. The agreement…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 93752
• Published on 18/05/17 at 11:40
©  Sky
Bundesliga: nine games of Matchday 33 draw a total of 1.36 million Sky Deutschland subscribers

The nine games of Matchday 33 of the 2016-17 Bundesliga season, played on Saturday 13/05/2017, drew a total of 1.36 million subscribers on average on the German Sky Bundesliga pay-TV channels, according to data from the German institutes of audience measurement AGF and GfK. This is the lowest…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Authorities
• Article # 93740
• Published on 17/05/17 at 17:40
©  RMCF
LaLiga Santander: at least 2.47 million TV viewers in Spain for Matchday 37 of 2016-17

At least 2.47 million viewers watched seven of the 10 games of Matchday 37 of the 2016-17 LaLiga Santander, played on 13 and 14/05/2017.The best TV audience was for Real Madrid CF - Sevilla FC (4-1), which drew 891,000 subscribers on average on the pay-TV channel beIN LaLiga, on Sunday 14/05/2017…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Clubs, …
• Article # 93536
• Published on 17/05/17 at 15:30
©  SFR Sports
Premier League: 1.58 million viewers for Tottenham Hotspur - Manchester United on Sky Sports 1

Tottenham Hotspur - Manchester United (2-1), during Matchday 37 of the 2016-17 Premier League, drew 1.582 million viewers on average in the UK on the pay-TV channel Sky Sports 1 on Sunday, 14/05/2017 (kick-off at 16:30 local time, pre-game from 16:15).This figure represented an audience share of…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Media Audiences, Digital, Authorities, …
• Article # 93651
• Published on 17/05/17 at 13:30
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Switzerland: Martin Blaser appointed managing director of InfrontRingier Sports & Entertainment

Martin Blaser, 49 years old, has been appointed the managing director of InfrontRingier Sports & Entertainment Switzerland, a joint venture between the Swiss media rights and marketing agency Infront Sports & Media and the Swiss media group Ringier, on 08/05/2017. He succeeds the Swiss Gian Gilli…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Sponsors - Partners
• Article # 93450
• Published on 16/05/17 at 17:54
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Germany: Sport1 acquires TV rights to the Confederations Cup and Euro U-21 in 2017

Sport1, a free-TV and pay-TV group in Germany, has acquired, via sublicense from the media rights and marketing agency SportA (owned by the public TV groups ARD and ZDF), the broadcasting rights to the 2017 Confederations Cup and the 2017 European U-21 championship (16-30/06/2017 in Poland), on…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Authorities
• Article # 93519
• Published on 16/05/17 at 17:53
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Italy: Eleven Sports takes a majority stake in Sportube, will be rebranded to Eleven Sports in 2017

Eleven Sports Network have established a presence in Italy by taking a majority stake in the OTT platform Sportube, the British audiovisual group announced on 10/05/2017. Sportube will take the name "Eleven Sports" in Italy in the summer of 2017.Sportube.tv, founded in 2010, was the first Italian…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies
• Article # 93532
• Published on 16/05/17 at 12:50
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Western Europe: pay-TV market still growing, 106 million subscribers expected in 2022

"The Western European pay-TV market is mature, but, unlike North America, it will still gain subscribers between 2016 and 2022. Although this only represents a 6.7% increase, it means nearly 7 million more subs to take the total to 106 million. Western Europe will cross the 100 million pay TV subs…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital
• Article # 93183
• Published on 15/05/17 at 18:24