DirecTV, Major League Baseball sign deal
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Major League Baseball said on  Thursday it reached a deal with satellite television provider  DirecTV Group Inc. to air its out-of-market package of games,  known as "Extra Innings," for the next seven years.
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Top satellite television operator  DirecTV Group Inc  said it expected subscription growth  to be "down a bit" in 2008 after a co-marketing deal with AT&T  Inc's  BellSouth ends.
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SBC said it signed a 10-year, $400 million agreement with Microsoft to provide next-generation television services using Microsoft&#39;s TV internet protocol television edition software platform.
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News Corporation (NCP) and The DIRECTV Group, Inc. today announced a number of transactions within the Latin America media market that will see DIRECTV Group paying $579 million in cash for the equity stakes in other News Corp controlled companies.
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The two companies increase an alliance to bundle DirecTV's service with the telecom provider's own offerings.
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Toronto&#39;s Major League Baseball franchise finally has a nest it can call its own. Blue Jays-owner Rogers Communications has reached a $25 million deal to buy the SkyDome.
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DirecTV Group DTV.N the largest U.S.  satellite television service, will buy its controlling  shareholder News Corp Ltd.'s NCP.AX stakes in Sky Latin  America for $579 million and combine its operations with  DirecTV Latin America, the companies said on Monday.
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Time Warner Inc. finalized an agreement Monday to sell the Atlanta Braves to Liberty Media Corp. after more than a year of negotiations.
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U.S. cable operators have reached a  tentative accord to carry up to four digital channels of  non-commercial programming offered by public television  stations in each market, the two sides are expected to announce  later on Monday.
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Rupert Murdoch&#39;s DirecTV Group Inc. will pay $579 million to consolidate its Latin American operations with other Murdoch-controlled satellite-television businesses in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Chile.
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Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Ltd.  will sell its stake in Sky Latin America to DirecTV Group , another company which it controls, for &#36;579 million in order to consolidate operations of the two satellite broadcasters, the companies said on Monday.
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DirecTV Group Inc  on Wednesday  posted strong subscriber gains in the fourth quarter as  customers upgraded to advanced high-definition satellite TV  services.
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XM Satellite Radio disclosed an 11-year, $650 million deal with Major League Baseball yesterday, the latest move in a costly race with rival Sirius Satellite Radio , which this month signed a five-year, $500 million deal with shock jock Howard Stern.
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Major League Baseball has approved the creation of a national cable television channel devoted to America's favorite pastime, but regular-season games may be confined to the dugouts for the network's first year, a top league official said on Friday.
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Washington's XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. plans to announce a deal worth as much as $650 million with Major League Baseball today that will enable the company to carry most regular and postseason games over the next several years beginning with Opening Day 2005, said a source familiar with the deal.
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Nielsen Co., the marketing research  firm, has struck a deal with DirecTV Group Inc. to study  viewing habits of customers who subscribe to the satellite  television service, the companies said on Wednesday.
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First Verizon and soon AT&#38;T will be granted a video franchise deal that will let them compete against cable operators for TV customers.