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Rene Valencia appointed commercial director of development and sponsorship at MP & Silva

Rene Valencia was appointed commercial director of development and sponsorship at the media rights agency MP & Silva for the Asia-Pacific region on 04/02/2014. He will be responsible for the expansion of the Asian Olympic Council marketing program and the growth of MP & Silva's Asian market. Based…

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• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Digital, …
• Article # 14695
• Published on 12/02/14 at 18:30

Italy: Mediaset wins TV rights for Champions League 2015-2018 worth €700m

Italian Silvio Berlusconi's free and pay-TV company, Mediaset, won the exclusive broadcasting rights in Italy for the Champions League from 2015-2018, on 10/02/2014. The amount of the acquisition is estimated by Italian media to be worth €700m, or just over €230m per season.The rights acquired by…

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• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Authorities, …
• Article # 14699
• Published on 12/02/14 at 16:59

Premier League: Tottenham close four agreements for distribution of Spurs TV in 35 countries

Tottenham Hotspur (Premier League) concluded four agreements for the international distribution of the TV channel of the club, Spurs TV, on 07/02/2014. These transactions were carried out through the media agency Pitch International. Neither the amount nor the duration of the contracts were…

Domain(s): Media
• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs
• Article # 14644
• Published on 11/02/14 at 17:30

Serie A: League closed 28,900 illegal streaming sites in 2011-12 and 2012-13

Nearly 30,000 websites were closed by the Lega Serie A during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons for illegally streaming Serie A matches, said the National Professional League, which manages the Italian first division, at a meeting on 03/02/2014.To fight against information piracy and preserve the…

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• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Finance, …
• Article # 14578
• Published on 11/02/14 at 11:59

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 21^st 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

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 48^th Super Bowl (111.5 million viewers in the United States)

With 111.5 million American viewers, the 48^th 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…

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• Category(ies): Agencies, Digital, Stadiums, …
• Article # 14383
• Published on 05/02/14 at 12:42

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…

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• 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…

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• Category(ies): Agencies, Clubs, Digital, …
• Article # 14287
• Published on 04/02/14 at 16:30

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…

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• Category(ies): Agencies, Authorities, Legal, …
• Article # 14309
• Published on 04/02/14 at 11:41