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News: Pac-12, Bally Sports, Apple MLB Broadcasters
A new streaming business enters the Pac-12 media legal rights foray. Moreover an update on Bally Sports and their impending bankruptcy Apple Television+’s Friday Evening Baseball booths have been announced. Apple reported to be in the mix for Pac-12 rights According to New York Article columnist Andrew Marchand, Apple is producing a surprising late operate at the Pac-12 media rights. The information will come as the Pac-12 sees its current market dwindle. A mid-February Brett McMurphy report indicated that CBS & Turner have both withdrawn from the race. With the Large 10, Massive 12, SEC, and ACC all signing, or previously in, long expression offers, the Pac-12 is the previous significant convention…
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Online streaming poses ‘existential threat’ to free sport on Australian TV, broadcasters say | Australia sport
The rise of online streaming services is a “real and existential threat” to free sport on television, claims the peak body representing Australia’s commercial broadcasters, which argues new entrants to the entertainment market should face tougher restrictions when bidding for rights to show important sporting fixtures. Free TV Australia has also called for more women’s sports to be shown on free-to-air broadcasts, including matches from the Matildas football team and all games in the women’s Fifa World Cup next year, in a review of the federal anti-siphoning list. “The real and existential threat to the anti-siphoning scheme is the one posed by the non-inclusion of online content service providers,” Free…