JumpTV buys sports network
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Online video service JumpTV Inc. said  on Tuesday it would buy a U.S. college sports broadband network  for $60.25 million to expand beyond its portfolio of ethnic  channels.
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MetroPCS Communications, the mobile telephone company that sells only prepaid service, offered to buy Leap Wireless International for about $5.5 billion.
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LagardÃ¨re, FranceÂs largest publisher, agreed to buy Sportfive for 865 million euros ($1.1 billion) to enter the market for soccer and rugby broadcasting. Sportfive, whose main shareholders are Advent International, Goldman Sachs, Capital Partners and the RTL Group, is expected to have 2006 sales of 526 million euros, LagardÃ¨re said. The purchase price includes debt. LagardÃ¨re, formerly one of FranceÂs biggest military contractors, has purchased media companies to diversify from the aerospace industry. Sportfive, which has headquarters in Paris and Hamburg, is EuropeÂs largest soccer marketing and media rights company.
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MetroPCS Communications Inc made an unsolicited offer on Tuesday to buy smaller rival Leap Wireless International Inc for about $5.5 billion in stock, seeking to fend off competition from larger U.S. mobile service providers.
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News Corp., the broadcaster owned by Rupert Murdoch, bought partner Telecom Italia SpA&#39;s stake in an Italian satellite television venture for 88 million euros ($108 million), giving News Corp.
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The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has agreed a deal with pay-TV operator Sky Sports for all home Test matches, one-day internationals, Twenty20 and county action.
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NEW YORK - The New York Mets Tuesday said it plans to start up a New York regional sports network with Time Warner Cable and Comcast Corp.
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Time Warner Cable, Comcast Corp., and the New York Mets agreed to create a 24-hour regional sports television network for the team.
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Walt Disney Co's sports network ESPN is  buying cricinfo, the world's largest specialist cricket Web  site, as it expands beyond its traditional strengths of  American football, basketball, baseball and Nascar.
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The wireless service provider offered more than $5 billion in stock for rival Leap.
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BT will air live Premiership matches on its new TV service thanks to a deal with Setanta.
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College Sports Television announced distribution deals with cable operators Cox and Charter Communications on Monday that could make the channel available in more than 65 million households.
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ESPN acquired national TV rights to the Arena Football League on Tuesday and also will have a minority stake in the 19-team indoor league.
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NEW YORK  - DirecTV Group  the largest U.S.satellite television service, will buy its controllingshareholder News Corp Ltd.'s  stakes in Sky LatinAmerica for $579 million and combine its operations withDirecTV Latin America, the companies said on Monday.
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JumpTV, which offers "ethnic"  television programming on the Internet, said it will announce a  deal on Friday to offer some of its shows for free on Joost, an  online video service launched by the founders of Skype and  Kazaa.
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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN  sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile  telephone service in a deal with Sprint Corp. FON.N catering  to sports fans with news and game highlights on a  next-generation network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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Time Warner Inc's  AOL said on  Tuesday it has purchased buy.at, an online affiliate marketing  network, as part of a strategy to bolster its Internet  advertising operations.