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Article: Sports broadcasting: fair play from a EU competition perspective.(European Commission)(Case study)
- Article from:
- The International Sports Law Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
- Author:
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1. Introduction
Sports have always been in the heart of people. We love to participate in sports and, equally, we love to watch sports. Stadiums and venues have been erected to enable the public to quench this thirst for sportsmanship and entertainment. However, stadiums and venues have limited seating capacity, but thanks to the transmission of signals, people from all over the world can be virtually present at the game.
Because sports broadcasts are, next to films, the most popular programmes on television, the demand for them by broadcasting organisations is very high. Evidently, it is of great interest to broadcasting organisations to have the ...