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...Last month, UK billionaire mogul Mohamed Mansour led a $500mn purchase of a newly created MLS franchise, San Diego FC, while the league began its landmark 10-year, $2.5bn broadcasting contract with Apple...
...Makers of smart speakers, including Amazon and Google, will have to offer all licensed UK radio stations access to their platforms as part of the biggest government overhaul of broadcasting rules in 20 years...
...“First Apple and now this . . . television, cable and satellite companies will struggle to respond”....
...and Major League Soccer in the US have agreed a broadcasting rights package thought to be worth $2.5bn over 10 years....
...“Sports clearly represents the next battleground for ownership of the living room among the big tech companies”, said Paolo Pescatore, tech and media analyst for PP Foresight....
...The company said it had finalised its long-awaited deal with US media group Warner Bros Discovery to form a joint venture for its sports broadcasting business, which includes English Premier League and Uefa...
...Other companies reporting include, Comcast, LG Electronics, MediaTek, Samsung Electronics and STMicroelectronics....
...The billionaire deputy prime minister of the UAE controls the club via Newton Investment Development LLC, a company registered in Abu Dhabi....
...Raine is now exploring how sports can grow new revenues outside broadcasting, ticket sales and sponsorship....
...But Ted Lasso is the company’s first bona fide hit, putting the company on the map amid a sea of content as technology companies and media groups spend heavily to entice subscribers....
...Mr Infantino has angered European and South American football officials by suggesting that companies could dictate radical changes to the tournament after 2021....
...Once in the US there were only three television networks, broadcasting on a government-licensed spectrum....
...After last week’s attack on the MV Mercer Street, an oil tanker managed by a UK company owned by an Israeli, the US and UK condemned Iran and said they were working on a co-ordinated response....
...A consortium including CVC is seeking to buy into a new company that will manage the broadcasting rights for Italy’s Serie A football competition....
...The structure of the deal is not clear, but other recent arrangements have involved sports governing bodies setting up their broadcasting and sponsorship businesses as new entities for private equity firms...
...Streaming means times are a-changingThe UK media regulator Ofcom has warned the traditional public service system is “unlikely to survive” against the likes of Netflix and new broadcasting rules are needed...
...Silver Lake, which is seeking a 15 per cent stake in a new entity that would hold NZ Rugby’s $2bn broadcasting, sponsorship and ticketing rights, has been among the quickest to pounce....
...Many other countries have tried it without much success,” Mr Frydenberg told Australian Broadcasting Corp. “We think we can be world leading.”...
...In 2013, City Football Group, the Abu Dhabi-controlled parent company of England’s Manchester City, paid $110m for a New York-based franchise....
...According to a recent Companies House filing, the private equity group acquired preference shares in CFG, meaning it ranks ahead of ordinary shareholders in the company’s capital structure even though it...
...Viewers who receive their signal via Dish Network have already lost access to more than a dozen stations that were formerly owned by Northwest Broadcasting, after the expiry of a key contract prompted the...
...In the past two years shares in Tokyo Broadcasting System have fallen 27 per cent and the company has been on the receiving end of two separate investor campaigns, each calling on the media group to offload...
...On the media side, participants at the event included the Financial Times, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, The Hindu, Agence France-Presse, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and the European Broadcasting...
...For now, CFG continues to gain from the multibillion-dollar broadcasting deals that matches between top clubs attract....
...WeWork prepared for the manoeuvre last month by changing from a corporation to a limited liability company, called the We Company MC LLC....
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