Rugby Union: Players profit by new TV deal
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THE Wallabies will reap the benefit of rugby&#39;s rich new broadcasting deal - but sightings of high-profile players at club level could be over for good under the expanded playing schedules funding it.
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A growing group of companies will for a fee take over players'  virtual identity and help them get to the top of the heap.
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RUGBY union yesterday launched a bid to increase its share of the Australian football market with the announcement that a fourth Australian Super 12 team would take part in a new-look Super 14 tournament in 2006.
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Sports programming is helping high-definition television become a mainstream phenomenon and a big moneymaker.
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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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It was the best Martin Gaucher could do, earning $8.34 an hour ($10.30 Canadian) making pucks and packaging souvenirs for the National Hockey League. His bonus was watching his NHL idols compete with the pucks he helped produce.
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While the stars take their time, midlevel free agents are starting to make deals.
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SYDNEY: Players were delighted to share in the new five-year US$323 million SANZAR broadcasting rights deal with Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Ltd, the players&#39; advocate said yesterday.
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The NHL players&#39; union insists its proposed salary rollback will dramatically change the league&#39;s economics. It remains to be seen whether that&#39;s enough to persuade
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Ma Bell finds new ways to make you pay for TV.
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Sydney - The Sanzar rugby alliance has struck a five-year, $323m (about R1.8bn) broadcasting rights deal with Rupert Murdoch&#39;s News Ltd, the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) announced on Wednesday.
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Marcus Trescothick would prefer live terrestrial coverage of England games but admits money forced the move to pay TV.
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Bedroom broadcasters will soon be able to get  share of the money that website makes from advertising
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Sky has been awarded exclusive rights to show cricket, strengthening its hold over televised sports. In a move that has received a mixed response from licensees, the broadcaster has added cricket to a growing
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The coaches of high-performance athletes will benefit the most from the federal government&#39;s announcement yesterday of how it will divide up $19.
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THE British Basketball League yesterday signed a pounds 2.5million, ten-year deal with fledgling cable TV channel MKTV.   The cash-starved league has been without TV coverage for four years, but the new deal means that 40 games a season will be broadcast.
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The Sanzar rugby alliance has finalised a five-year $US323 million ($NZ460 million) broadcasting rights deal with News Ltd, the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) has confirmed.