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MUMBAI:
Ten Sports and Goal TV have agreed to a new multi-year deal which will allow Goal
TV's football content to be shown to the 50 million households of Ten Sports and
Zee Sports in the Indian sub-continent. The
agreement also sees the production of Goal TV's two all-football channels shift
to the Ten Sports headquarters in Dubai. Goal TV is a JV between Astro in Malaysia
and Hong Kong's Yes TV. It claims to reach 60 million viewers in 16 countries.
Goal
TV founder Thomas Kressner said, "It is an excellent development for us to
partner with the Indian sub-continent's leading sports channel, with its huge
daily audience and solid production experience". Goal
TV's content includes live action from the French, Scottish and Dutch premier
leagues and programming from top English clubs Manchester United, Liverpool and
Chelsea, and Spanish La Liga club Barcelona.
Ten Sports senior VP Peter
Hutton said, "This volume of excellent football content is part of a growing
bouquet of football rights on Ten and Zee Sports. It supports our existing deals
with the Uefa Champions League, Uefa Cup, Uefa Supercup, Fifa, AFC, the English
championship and the All India football federation." The
new agreement means that Taj TV, Ten Sports' parent will now produce and transmit
nine channels from its Dubai based headquarters, ranging from the Cricket Plus
channel for Directv in the US to the Football Channel for Singapore cable operator
Starhub. | 
