Ten Sports and Goal TV agree on licensing and production pact

Ten Sports and Goal TV have agreed to a new multi year deal which will allow Goal TV's exclusive football content to be shown to the 50 million households of Ten Sports and Zee Sports in the Indian sub-continent.

United Arab Emirates: Wednesday, August 01 - 2007 at 14:43
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The agreement also sees the production of Goal TV's two all-football channels shift to the Ten Sports headquarters in Dubai.

Goal TV founder Thomas Kressner said, 'It is an excellent development for us to partner with the Indian sub-continent's leading sports channel, with its huge daily audience and solid production experience.'

Goal TV's content includes exclusive live action from the French, Scottish and Dutch premier leagues and programming from top English clubs Manchester United, Liverpool and Chelsea, and Spanish La Liga club Barcelona.

Ten Sports senior vice President Peter Hutton said, 'This volume of excellent football content is part of a growing bouquet of football rights on Ten and Zee Sports. It supports our existing deals with the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, UEFA Supercup, FIFA, AFC, the English championship and the All India football federation.'

The new agreement means that Taj TV, parent company of Ten Sports, will now produce and transmit nine channels from its Dubai based headquarters, ranging from the 'Cricket Plus' channel for Directv in North America to the 'Football Channel' for Singapore cable operator Starhub.

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ABOUT TEN SPORTS
Launched in April 2002, Taj TV's Ten Sports is watched by more viewers than any other sports channel in the sub-continent, and is available in nearly 50 million cable/ satellite households worldwide. Ten Sports is also the world's biggest producer of cricket. The Channel broadcasts cricket from Sharjah, the West Indies, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Morocco throughout the Indian sub-continent and Asia, as well as in the United States (Cricket Plus), Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Ten Sports also owns the exclusive rights in its territories for the WWE, the UEFA Champions League, the U.S. Open tennis and hockey's World Cup.

ABOUT GOAL TV
Goal TV is a dedicated football network jointly owned by Yes Television (Hong Kong) Limited and Astro All Asia Networks Plc. in Malaysia. The network offers Asian audiences targeted, localised programming of top European soccer to meet the highest demands of Asia's many millions of football fans. Goal TV's original channels Goal TV 1 and Goal TV 2, are among Asia's fastest-growing sports channels, reaching 60 million viewers in 16 countries.

Posted by Medilyn Manibo, Assistant News Editor
Wednesday, August 01 - 2007 at 14:43 UAE local time (GMT+4)

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