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...bold move. For years, the top teams had threatened to split from England's four-tier, 120-year-old Football League, claiming that with a domestic game in the doldrums and top clubs impotent against Continental opposition, they needed a greater say over their own affairs - and the enhanced broadcast revenue they thought they could win. In 1992, England's top clubs walked out of the Football League to form the Premier League, a commercially independent alliance able to hammer out its own TV deals on behalf of all its teams...
...National Football League (NFL) - the latter earned more than $6 billion in 2005-06. But with only 20 clubs competing in the English league, average club takings are already more than in the NBA. There's more to come. For each of the three seasons of a new broadcast deal that begins later this year, domestic TV rights for the Premier League fetched $1.1 billion, compared with just $680 million for the deal that expires this summer. Taking Britain's smaller population into account, the League, under the new deal, will generate 50% more domestic broadcasting revenue per head than...
...allure of pretty women in candy-colored outfits has boosted interest in the sport. While the numbers still pale in comparison with men's golf, attendance at LPGA events rose 5% in 2006, and it's up 10% since 2001. Daily average television viewership for LPGA tournaments broadcast on cable (not including the Golf Channel) reached 417,000 households in 2006, up 59% from 2005, while network viewership last year rose 14%, to 1.7 million households. "The numbers are small, but the percentages are large," says Bivens. Women's golf is one of the few sports that can boast double...
...LPGA in the television production of events. In addition to the Solheim Cup, a team competition in which top Europeans take on top Americans, the LPGA owns and operates the year-end ADT Championship. There it can control the fan experience, like having more player interaction, and set broadcast agendas with a focus on player vignettes. By running tournaments, as opposed to licensing them, the LPGA earns money from ticket sales, food and merchandise. The plan is still a long iron from success. LPGA tournaments have to buy network time, sell their own ads and cover production costs...
...National TV stations, now tightly controlled by the Kremlin, were ordered to broadcast the same coverage of the Church rites and the funeral ceremony, minimizing the chances for any unwelcome improvisation by any reporters. Still, a jarring moment occurred anyway: The state-run Channel 1 TV station invited a group of Yeltsin's old associates to share their memories of their leader. For the first time in at least four years, the forgotten politicians known as"democrats of the first wave" showed up on TV, and for the first time in years, Russians heard a lively political discussion broadcast live...