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  Fox Soccer Channel (FSC) and Setanta Sports have acquired broadcast rights in the United States for the English FA Cup and England’s national football team matches in a four-year deal with the English FA. --... Read More

  UEFA awarded a major package of UEFA Champions League media rights for 2009-2012 in the UK to pay-broadcaster BSkyB and is expected to award the remaining rights tomorrow after it invited a second round of bidding. --... Read More

By Rudy Ruitenberg
Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Vivendi SA's pay-television unit Canal Plus and France Telecom SA's Orange will pay 668 million euros ($967 million) a season for rights to broadcast French soccer matches, the country's professional soccer league said.
Canal Plus will pay 465 million euros a year for nine lots, including two that allow it to pick a Sunday night match each week and the season's 10 best matches, company spokesman Antoine Banet-Rivet said in a telephone intervi... Read More