World Cup gets 15.8m UK viewers
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England's defeat to South Africa in the Rugby World Cup attracts a peak audience of 15.8m.
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The English team of Paul Casey and Luke Donald won the World Cup golf event in Spain Sunday. Casey and Donald shot an 8-under-par 64 in the alternate-shot format and completed the tournament in 31-under-par 257.
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Media & professional: TV firm gains access to online community of 15m.
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NEW YORK   NBC took ratings gold, attracting big prime-time audiences for its first three nights of Olympics coverage. Sunday&#39;s 4 1/2-hour broadcast was last week&#39;s most-watched show, winning NBC a huge audience of 25.8 million ...
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LONDON - The Athens Olympics broke global TV viewing records, with nearly 4 billion people tuning in, IOC president Jacques Rogge said Tuesday.    Rogge said 3.9 billion people watched an Olympic broadcast at least once during the Aug...
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The US Super Bowl is watched by 97.5m viewers, making it the second most-viewed show in history.
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Sport&#39;s four biggest television ratings hits over the last 12 months were England&#39;s Euro 2004 games and the main reason for the team&#39;s popularity, the dash of class called Wayne Rooney, inevitably
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There&#039;s only one more off day the World Cup resumes. Next up are the quarterfinals with Germany facing Argentina and Italy taking on Ukraine on Friday. Saturday&#039;s games are England vs. Portugal and Brazil against France.
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A record 97.5 million Americans tuned in to Sunday's upset victory by the New York Giants over the New England Patriots, marking the biggest TV audience in Super Bowl history and the second most-watched U.S. telecast ever.
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Sport: Top teams clash at home of English football as US game seeks a global audience.
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The steps of Cologne&#039;s famous cathedral are a sight to behold, 31 stone stairs stretching almost the length of a football field at their longest point. On this workday, though, the scene on the steps is even more impressive. It&#039;s not even noon, and every spare inch is filled with boisterous World Cup fans dressed in their nation&#039;s colors. The Germans are standing and singing, the English are waving banners, the Swedes are clapping.
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Malcolm Glazer upped his stake in UK football club Manchester United by an additional 15.8 million shares Friday, sources said. The move has renewed scuttlebutt that the billionaire investor--who already owns
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Sport: Tonga's No8 Finau Maka explains why the time is right to produce a World Cup shock.
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The World Cup got its first high-profile casualty Thursday and its first surprise successes.
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Sport: The chief executives of Chelsea and Man Utd are leading candidates for World Cup bid roles
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Nearly 100 million people watched the Super Bowl in the US, making it the second most watched TV programme in American broadcasting history. By Chris Tryhorn
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Zurich, Switzerland (Sports Network) - Four spectators died at Sunday&#39;s World Cup qualifying match between Togo and Mali. Eight fans were also injured, three seriously, at Kegue Stadium in Togo after a power failure led to a wild rush to the exits.