TV Sports Markets Newslines
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- The Korean baseball league began its season without television coverage, after broadcasters refused to meet the price asked by Eclat Entertainment, agent for the Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO).
- Television ratings in a number of key markets worldwide for the second edition of Indian cricket’s IPL have been disappointing, not helped by the enforced switch of venue to South Africa and the poor weather that has already washed out almost 30 per cent of the scheduled cricket so far.
- Questions are being raised over the future of Romanian sports channel GSP TV, a joint-venture between cable operator RCS-RDS and commercial broadcaster Antena, with the news that RCS-RDS now plans to launch its own sports channel and has already independently acquired Spanish La Liga rights.
- UK commercial broadcaster ITV is to show delayed coverage of this weekend’s WBC super middleweight title clash in the US between the UK’s Carl Froch’s and challenger Jermaine Taylor after Froch’s promoter, Mike Hennessey, failed to secure a mainstream television deal for live rights.
- Bids for the Belgian rights for the Champions League and Europa League Uefa club competitions are due in tomorrow.
- Italy’s top-tier basketball league, Lega Basket’s Serie A, is looking to enter private negotiations with broadcasters after none responded to an official invitation to tender.