Football Partnerships

By the gaffer

Fox Soccer Channel and the Premier League today announced that Fox Sports International has won the bidding for the rights to show the Premier League on US television for the 2010-2013 seasons. Fox has also won the similar rights for Central and South America to its associated company, Fox Sports Latin America.

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By Iñaki Ferreras

Spanish media group Mediapro-Imagina is claiming a buffer against the worst of the economic downturn: TV soccer rights. Mediapro has most of these rights for the next three years and Jaume Roures, the company’s CEO, declared: “The crisis is having an advertising impact on television and the newspapers but our global business doesn’t depend on ads but on content generation and services and here we are doing very well.”

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By Shane Romig

With a courtroom clash looming over the broken contract to televise Argentina’s local soccer matches, the Argentine Football Association is accusing Television Satelital Codificada of having a conflict of interest because of its ownership structure.

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Five companies including News Corp’s (NWSA.O) unit Sky Italia and Mediaset (MS.MI) have placed bids for six packages of audiovisual and radio rights to soccer matches in Italy’s top league for the next two seasons, the country’s Lega Calcio soccer association said on Monday.

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UEFA announced that it has concluded the sale of Champions League and Europa League media rights in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009-10 to 2011-12.

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