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NBA: eight members of the US Congress ask the League to suspend its activities in China

Eight members of the US Congress have asked the NBA "to suspend its activities in China until Chinese-controlled broadcasters and sponsors cease their boycott of NBA activities and their special treatment of the Houston Rockets," in a letter addressed to the North American basketball league on…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Sponsors - Partners
• Article # 164476
• Published on 10/10/19 at 14:14
Leaders 2019: "With Amazon we sold our yearly order in the first month" (L. De Laurentiis, Napoli)

"SSC Napoli was the first club in the world to partner with Amazon (an exclusive Amazon Brand Store, agreement signed on 18/06/2018) and we launched simultaneously in five market places: Italy, France, Germany, the UK and Spain. We sold out of our yearly order right away after the first month,…
Domain(s): Clubs, Media
• Category(ies): Ticketing, Marketing - Communication, Merchandising - Licensing, …
• Article # 164340
• Published on 10/10/19 at 11:39
©  D.R.
2019-20 LaLiga Santander: cumulative TV audience of 4.1 million viewers in Spain for Matchday 8

The 10 games of Matchday 8 of the 2019-20 LaLiga Santander, played from 04 to 06/10/2019, recorded an average cumulative TV audience of 4.147 million viewers in Spain (3.546 million on the Movistar LaLiga pay-TV channels and 601,000 on free-TV channel Gol) according to data from the Kantar Media…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 164318
• Published on 10/10/19 at 11:14
©  D.R.
2019-20 Bundesliga: cumulative TV audience of 3.67 million viewers for Matchday 7 on Sky Deutschland

Six of the nine games of Matchday 7 of the 2019-20 Bundesliga, played from 04 to 06/10/2019, recorded an cumulative average audience of 3.67 million viewers on the channels of the pay-TV group Sky Deutschland, according to the data from the German AGF and GfK audience measurement institutes…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 164337
• Published on 10/10/19 at 10:44
2019-20 Ligue 1 Conforama: 1.03 million viewers for Saint-Étienne - OL on Canal+ (share: 4.6%)

AS Saint-Étienne - Olympique Lyonnais (1-0), the closing game of Matchday 9 of the 2019-20 Ligue 1 Conforama, drew an average of 1.03 million viewers on the pay-TV channel Canal+ in France, on Sunday 06/10/2019 (kick-off at 21:00 CET), according to data from the French Médiamétrie audience…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 164143
• Published on 10/10/19 at 10:12
©  D.R.
China: broadcast of NBA preseason games canceled following a tweet about the situation in Hong Kong

China's public broadcaster CCTV and the Chinese internet service group Tencent have canceled the broadcast of NBA preseason games in the country in October 2019, following a tweet from Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets NBA franchise, supporting the pro-independence protests in…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Sponsors - Partners
• Article # 164409
• Published on 09/10/19 at 18:10
©  Leaders
Leaders 2019: "We are changing the world of sports via the tools we provide" (P. Hutton, Facebook)

"I think we are changing the world of sports. We are asking businesses what they aim to obtain and are trying to deliver it like for our deal with the MLB. (Facebook acquired the rights to exclusive distribution, in the USA, to 25 games for the 2018 season, then to six without exclusivity in…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences, Digital
• Article # 164319
• Published on 09/10/19 at 16:35
©  Leaders
Leaders 2019: "We aim to disrupt the hegemony of pay-TV over sports rights" (J. Skipper, DAZN)

"We are an OTT player that aims to disrupt the hegemony of pay-TV over the sports rights ecosystem," said John Skipper (USA), executive chairman of DAZN, at the 2019 edition of the Leaders Sport Business Summit conference cycle, at Twickenham Stadium in London (ENG) 08/10/2019. News Tank Football…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Media Audiences, …
• Article # 164288
• Published on 09/10/19 at 16:00
©  Leaders
Leaders 2019: "Because of piracy we regard all sports rights as non-exclusive" (Y. Al-Obaidly, beIN)

"We now live in a world where exclusive broadcast rights are, effectively, wholly non-exclusive. Consumers, young and old, are accessing everything for nothing - via a kodi or a VPN or beoutQ - wherever they are, whenever they like, and this behaviour is being normalised. As the largest buyer of…
Domain(s): Public Authorities & Regulations, Media
• Category(ies): Rights Acquisitions, Agencies, Legal, …
• Article # 164344
• Published on 09/10/19 at 12:02
©  TF1
Japan 2019: 25 million domestic viewers for Japan-Samoa, peak at 46.1% share in the Tokyo area

Japan - Samoa (38-19), a match of the group stage (Pool A) of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, recorded, on the Japanese free-TV channel Nippon TV, a 32.8% audience share in the Kanto region (which includes the capital of Tokyo and has more than 43 million inhabitants) with a peak at 46.1% late in the…
Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Media Audiences
• Article # 164244
• Published on 08/10/19 at 14:00