NFL lands $8 billion in TV deals
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CBS and Fox agreed Monday to pay $8 billion for NFL games through 2011, launching a new round of rights increases that could boost the NFL&#39;s take from over-the-air and cable TV rights to a staggering $3 billion per year.
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Eight television networks feed video content to mobile phones through the new service, which costs $15 to $25 a month. By the Associated Press.
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College football made news yesterday with the announcement of a television deal. Fox agreed to a four-year deal with the Bowl Championship Series [excluding the Rose Bowl] that won't begin for two years (the end of the 2006 season).
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The News Corporation agreed to sell eight Fox network-affiliated television stations to Oak Hill Capital Partners for about $1.1 billion.
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The deal with the media agencies owned by the WPP Group is valued at $800 million to $900 million in commercial time.
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The $8.2 billion deal to take media  company Tribune Co. private has become entangled in a newly  inflamed debate over media ownership rules at the Federal  Communications Commission, the Los Angeles Times reported on  Friday.
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The National Football League on  Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television  networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games  through 2011 in deals worth a combined $8 billion.
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The National Football League on Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games through 2011 in deals worth a combined $8 billion.
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The AFC and NFC championship game broadcasts had their highest combined overnight TV ratings in eight years.
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Fox will be the new television home of the Bowl Championship Series. The network and the BCS announced a four-year, &#36;80 million deal Monday that gives Fox the broadcast rights to the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls from 2007-10 and the national title game from 2007-09.
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The NFL Network began airing its series of eight Thursday and Saturday games on Thanksgiving. It wasn't auspicious.
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CBS and Fox will continue to televise NFL games on Sunday afternoons through the 2011 season. The price tag for the six-year deal: $8 billion, 25 percent and 30 percent higher than the previous eight-year contracts for the two networks.
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The software giant says it is buying Tellme Networks in a deal believed to be in the range of $800 million.
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The National Football League plans to broadcast Thursday and Saturday games live over the Internet to some customers of Verizon Communications Inc. and DirecTV Group Inc, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday.
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Peyton Manning agrees to restructure his contract with the Indianapolis Colts to save the team nearly $8 million in salary cap space.
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Television executives are lining up at the bargaining table for the rights to broadcast the expanded schedule of BCS games being contemplated, beginning in the 2006 season.
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ESPN announced Tuesday that it has bought a minority stake in the Arena Football League and will televise at least 26 games a year for five seasons.