ESPN acquires AFL stake plus TV rights
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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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The league signed a six-year extension of its Sunday afternoon CBS and FOX deals through 2011. The NFL will receive $8 billion in rights fees for the Sunday afternoon packages.
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The NFL agreed Monday to contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise Sunday afternoon games for six more years, deals worth a combined &#36;8 billion.
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The National Basketball Association  said on Wednesday it has reached eight-year agreements to let  Walt Disney Co.&#39;s ABC and ESPN television networks and Time  Warner Inc.&#39;s TNT broadcast league games through 2016.
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Tribune Co. said on Thursday it has  acquired full control of amNewYork after buying a minority  interest from the free daily newspaper's management group led  by co-founder Russel Pergament.
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Walt Disney Co.'s DIS.N ESPN  sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile  phone service in a deal with Sprint Corp. FON.N intended to  lure new users with sports news sent over a next-generation  network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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The Patriots-Giants game will now be available to the entire nation under an agreement reached by NBC and CBS to simulcast it.
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The Arena Football League enters its third decade with a new broadcast partner that happens to own a portion of the 19-team organization.
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ESPN, The Worldwide Leader in Sports, and Verizon Wireless, operator of  the nation's most reliable national wireless  broadband network, announced today an exclusive multi-year agreement to  deliver an unmatched ESPN mobile sports content line-up to Verizon  Wireless customers.
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The NBA announced extensions of its television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT on Wednesday, deals that will include rights for digital media content.
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The jockeying to bring the most popular names from TV and the Web to cell phones produced another exclusive deal yesterday with Verizon Wireless nabbing a multiyear agreement to offer ESPN's flashy feed of sports scores, newscasts, and video highlights on the tiny screen.
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15-year exclusive deal with ESPN ensures Electronic Arts' dominance in sports video games.
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U.S. cable network operator ESPN Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to buy the London-based cable channel NASN Ltd. as part of its strategy to broadcast more American sports in Europe.
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While an official announcement has not been made, word spread yesterday at Daytona International Speedway that Fenway Sports Group, led by Red Sox owner John Henry, had completed a deal to purchase a 50 percent stake in the Roush Racing NASCAR team.
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Walt Disney Co.'s  ESPN sports television network is launching its own brand of mobile phone service in a deal with Sprint Corp.  intended to lure new users with sports news sent over a next-generation network, the companies said on Wednesday.
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SPORTS NETWORK - The National Football League agreed to six- year contract extensions worth $8 billion US with CBS and FOX to televise Sunday afternoon games.
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ESPN, which managed to offend the NFL with an edgy football drama, is back in the game with a project set in the world of high-stakes poker.