| BBC to show WC matches live online - 01/06/2006 |
The BBC is to show World Cup football matches live on its Web site. The corporation has the rights to televise 23 games in the group stages as well as in the later part of the competition, which starts on June 9. The BBC has already got the online rights to show the next two football World Cups, in 2010 and 2014.
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| South Korean TV market expected to reach $13bn by 2010 - 30/05/2006 |
It isn’t just flat-panel TVs that could score big from next month’s World Cup soccer tournament. In South Korea at least, hundreds of thousands of soccer fans are snapping up multimedia handsets, notebook PCs, car navigation systems, Personal media players, and PDAs capable of receiving TV broadcasts in time for the month-long event, which kicks off on June 9 in Germany. Officials at the Ministry of Information & Communication believe DMB will have a significant impact on the Korean economy. The local market is expected to reach nearly $13bn by 2010.
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Full Business Week report
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| SA to take part in mobile TV technology trial - 29/05/2006 |
South Africans taking part in the trial of new mobile television technology will be among only a few in the world watching the 2006 World Cup on their cellphones. The trial of digital video broadcasting-handheld ([DVB-H) technology being conducted in Pretoria, Soweto, Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town is part of a move to bring SA in line with the latest digital trends - in time to host our own World Cup in 2010.
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| ITV loses out as companies invest elsewhere - 29/05/2006 |
No media company should treat the World Cup as a gravy train, as ITV has found to its cost. The broadcaster was expecting a much-needed boost from advertisers keen to market their beers, deodorants and cars to captive males following every kick and tackle in Germany next month. Instead, it has been caught offside by a general market downturn and companies investing their money elsewhere.
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Full report in The Guardian
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| News operations restructure for World Cup - 27/05/2006 |
When the Football Federation of Australia simulcast its World Cup squad announcement on SBS television and Web site Yahoo!7 earlier this month, it was a small sign of things to come. TV audiences and newspaper circulations are under pressure, while time spent online is growing rapidly. Media companies around the world are restructuring their newsrooms and their businesses to cope with the change the Internet and developing media are wreaking on their customers media and news consumption habits.
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Full AustralianIT report
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| Vodacom and MultiChoice to work together - 24/05/2006 |
SA pay-television operator MultiChoice says Vodacom will not be competing with the countrys only pay-television operator, despite the fact that the cellular operator received a test licence from the broadcasting authority. MultiChoice and the countrys cellphone operators - Vodacom, Cell C and MTN - announced their commitment to collaborate on DVB-H. This will see SA technologically ready well before the 2010 soccer showpiece.
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Full Sunday Times report
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| Multichoice announces television breakthrough - 19/5/2006 |
South Africa hopes to be one of the first in the world to launch new mobile handset television technology DVB-H (digital video broadcast - handheld), with Multichoice aiming to offer the technology in time for the 2006 Soccer World Cup. Multichoice has, with the permission of sector regulator Icasa under a test license, been trialling DVB-H in Soweto, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban since November last year.
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Full My Broadband report
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| HBS to serve as host broadcaster for 2010 - 11/05/2006 |
The 2006 World Cup hasnt even started yet, but already HBS has been lined up by Fifa to serve as the host broadcaster for the 2010 Fifa World Cup in SA. HBS will also produce the next edition of the Fifa Confederations Cup 2009, and provide ongoing consulting services involving all other Fifa events to ensure the best professional solution and consistent standards for host broadcasting of Fifas events.
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Full TVtechnology.com report
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| Delivering compelling content to mobiles - 09/05/2006 |
Citing the lack of widespread rights deals (T-Mobile has an exclusive deal), shortage of handsets in the market, compelling content packages and a true business case for operators, speakers from the Mobile Entertainment Forum, Real Nertworks and the GSM Association agreed that this year was too early for the mass adoption of mobile TV or other World Cup related mobile content. Bill Gajda, GSM Association cmo, said he thought the Olympics in 2008 or even the next world cup in 2010 were likelier targets for delivering compelling content to mobiles.
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Full Mobile Europe report
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| World Cup expected to surpass Big Brother - 04/05/2006 |
In Brazil, the biggest annual Internet event has traditionally been the country’s version of the reality show Big Brother. But this year that tradition is expected to be broken. We expect the World Cup will surpass Big Brother, says Antonio Carlos Silveira, digital media man-ager at Globo.com, the Web site of Brazilian media conglomerate Globo.
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Full Business Day report
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| BBC envisions bigger, better things for 2010 - 25/04/2006 |
It brought England’s World Cup triumph to the nation and made Des Lynam a housewives’ favourite. But the final whistle has blown on Grandstand, BBC Television’s longest-running sports programme, after executives said that it had been defeated by the digital age. A BBC insider said: BBC Sport is a strong brand but Grandstand had become less attractive to younger viewers. That ‘70s perception’ is not where we want to be in 2010.
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Full report in The Times Online
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| SBS retains TV rights to 2010 - 23/04/2006 |
Football Federation Australia boss John ONeill has always described the Socceroos as the rainmakers for the game - the one team with the clout to drive investment, sponsorship and marketing support for the sport as a whole. From the end of this year all Socceroos games (including World and Asian Cup qualifiers, and Asian Cup finals matches) will only be available on Fox. SBS will, however, retain the rights to this years World Cup and those in 2010 and 2014.
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Full report in The Age
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| TV soccer scores a $120m deal - 21/04/2006 |
Australian soccer has cashed in on the unprecedented wave of World Cup excitement by signing an astonishing $120m television deal that secures the future of the sport in this country. This means that the SBS network, for years the torch carrier for soccer here and which currently holds the rights to show the Socceroos, will be left with its UEFA Champions League coverage and the 2010 and 2014 World Cup finals.
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Full report in The Advertiser
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| SBS Television wins broadcasting rights for 2010 in Australia - 06/04/2006 |
SBS Television has been awarded the Australian television broadcast rights for both the 2010 and 2014 soccer World Cups. The sports world governing body, Fifa, has announced SBS Television will carry the exclusive free-to-air and pay television rights, as well as broadband Internet rights, for both tournaments.
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Full report in The Age
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| Rok brings live WC TV for cellular phones - 24/03/2006 |
We werent expecting to see live World Cup games on our mobs till SA 2010, but Rok has time-shifted our expectations with this black box: a TV streamer that’ll let you watch all of your channels live on a mobile. The BLCX connects to your TV and throws channels – even ones from your Sky digibox – directly to your phone via your broadband connection. Unlike Roks existing service, there are no extra subscription fees, and you change channels using your mobile keys. So, which phones will it work with?
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Full report in Stuff Magazine
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| MTN to be official cellular network provider for 2010 - 22/03/2006 |
SAs second cellular network provider today announced that it had signed an exclusive agreement with the SA Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) to broadcast the Fifa World Cup 2006 on cellphones. MTN SA GM corporate affairs and marketing Bernice Samuels said that the group would be able to use the platform of soccer as a medium to grow the brand on the continent, and to broaden its footprint. Our aim is to deliver a memorable broadcast as MTN, the SABC and the nation prepare for the journey to 2010, she said.
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