RE: Discovery launches sports channel "DSPORTS" in India
Basically, we ll get to see EUROSPORTS channel with DPOSRTS name, as discovery had taken full control of eurosports chnl in 2015 :k
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Discovery Communications will take full control of Eurosport, the sports broadcaster, after agreeing to purchase the 49 per cent of the company it did not own from TF1, the French media group, for €491m.
he deal follows Discovery’s €1.3bn acquisition o
f European broadcast rights to Olympic Games between 2018 and 2024, and is another sign of the increasing interest US media groups are taking in Europe.
“Taking full control of Eurosport is the culmination of our commitment to strengthening Eurosport as a premier sports brand,” said David Zaslav, Discovery’s chief executive.
The company, whose biggest shareholder is cable billionaire John Malone, has built a larger international business than many of its peers in the US and is on the look-out for other European deals. It has invested in Eurosport’s rights portfolio, acquiring more than
7,500 hours of coverage of competitions that include the Uefa Champions League, Europa League, Major League Soccer, Bundesliga soccer and Spanish cycling.
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