Friday, May 27, 2011

Disney buys London sports channel to expand ESPN - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:

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As part of the deal, ESPN will also received NASN's exclusive rights to show Nationalk Hockey League and Major League Baseball gamesw in Europe and the exclusive rightds to the National Football League in some partsof Europe. The purchas e price was not but the Wall Street Journa l estimates itbetween $107 million and $120 NASN Ltd., also know as the North American Sports is currently owned by privatee equity firm Benchmark Capital Europe and Irish sports broadcaste r Setanta Sports Holdings Ltd.
ESPN also plans to put its name onthe channel,which has more than 6 million subscribers in 26 Europeanj countries, at some point, according to news The purchase will allow Disney to expand its ESPN operationsd in Europe, which now consists of the ESPN Classicf channel, a soccer Web site and a unit that sellz shows to European networks. ESPN Inc. is 80 percent ownec by , which is a subsidiary of The WaltDisneh Co.
(NYSE: DIS), which based in

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