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Sports Broadcasting Contracts In Japan
This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in Japan. For a list of rights in other countries, see Sports television broadcast contracts. Multi-sport events *IAAF World Championships in Athletics ** TBS *Summer Olympic Games *Winter Olympic Games *Asian Games **Japan Consortium * World Swimming Championships **TV Asahi American football *National Football League **DAZN Baseball *Nippon Professional Baseball **Fuji TV **DAZN (except Yomiuri Giants home games) **NHK *Major League Baseball **NHK **J Sports **DAZN Basketball *FIBA: DAZN **World Cup (selected games also available on Fuji TV in 2019) **TV Asahi **Nippon TV ** Intercontinental Cup *National Basketball Association ** Rakuten NBA Special ** Wowow *NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship **J Sports *All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Championship **J Sports Boxing Akira Yaegashi fights ( Ohashi Promotions) have been aired live on TV Tokyo, TBS, NTV, and Fuji TV. The Katsunari Takayama fight in his third ...
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Sports Television Broadcast Contracts
This article contains a list of links to pages referring to sports broadcasting rights in various countries. By region Africa * Middle East & North Africa Asia and Oceania * Australia *China *India *Japan * New Zealand * Philippines *Saudi Arabia * South Korea * Thailand * Vietnam Americas * Brazil * Canada * Caribbean * Central America *Dominican Republic * Mexico * Puerto Rico * South America * United States Europe * Albania * Belarus * Belgium * Bosnia and Herzegovina *Bulgaria * Croatia * Denmark * France * Finland * Germany * Greece * Hungary * Ireland * Italy * Kosovo * Montenegro * Netherlands * Portugal * Poland * Romania * Russia * Serbia * Spain * Sweden * United Kingdom By event Association football * FIFA World Cup * FIFA Club World Cup * UEFA Euro 2024 * UEFA Champions League * UEFA Europa League *UEFA Conference League *UEFA Super Cup * English Premier League * FA Cup * EFL Cup * Spanish La Liga * Copa del Rey * German Bundesliga * DFB-Pokal * It ...
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FIBA World Cup
The FIBA Basketball World Cup, also known as the FIBA World Cup of Basketball or simply the FIBA World Cup, between 1950 and 2010 known as the FIBA World Championship, is an international basketball competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body. It is considered the flagship event of FIBA. The tournament structure is similar, but not identical, to that of the FIFA World Cup; both of these international competitions were played in the same year from 1970 through 2014. A parallel event for women's teams, now known as the FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, is also held quadrennially. From 1986 through 2014, the men's and women's championships were held in the same year, though in different countries. The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation. The winning team receives the Naismith Trophy, first awarded i ...
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Katsunari Takayama
is a Japanese professional boxer. He is a five-time mini-flyweight world champion, having held the WBC title in 2005, the IBF title twice between 2013 and 2015, and the WBO title twice between 2014 and 2017. He retired as a professional in 2017, as WBO world champion, to focus on participation in the 2020 Olympics, but returned in 2020 after failing to qualify. Early life Takayama weighed about 60 kg at the age of twelve. He started playing rugby and athletics, but did not last long. It was in summer in the second grade of junior high school that his friend brought him to a boxing gym. When he got started on the punching bag, despite he said he is going to be a world champion, he could not do more than three push-ups in a row. Even after his own workout, he had been watching senior boxers' sparring sessions and trainees' training. Professional boxing career Takayama made his professional debut in October 2000 and won the All-Japan Rookie King Tournament in December 2 ...
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Fuji Television
JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as and colloquially known as CX, is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba today is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built in this area for defensive purposes in the 1850s. Reclaimed land offshore Shinagawa was dramatically expanded durin ..., Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Owned-and-operated station, Owned and operated by the it is the flagship (broadcasting), key station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System. It is also known for its long-time slogan, ''"If it's not fun, it's not TV!"'' Fuji Television also operates three premium television stations, known as "Fuji TV One" ("Fuji TV 739"—sports/variety, including all Tokyo Yakult Swallows home games), "Fuji TV Two" ("Fuji TV 721"—drama/anime), and "Fuji TV Next" ("Fuji TV CSHD"—live premium shows) (called together as "Fuji TV OneTwoNext"), all available in High-definition television, ...
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Nippon Television
JOAX-DTV (channel 4), branded as , is the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System, owned-and-operated by the which is a subsidiary of the certified broadcasting holding company , itself a listed subsidiary of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, Japan's largest media conglomerate by revenue and the second largest behind Sony. Nippon Television Holdings forms part of Yomiuri's main television broadcasting arm alongside Kansai region flagship Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, which owns a 6.4% share in the company. Nippon TV's studios are located in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and its transmitters are located in the Tokyo Skytree. Broadcasting terrestrially across Japan, the network is sometimes contracted to , and abbreviated as "NTV" or "AX". It is also the first commercial TV station in Japan, and it has been broadcasting on Channel 4 since its inception. Nippon Television is the home of the syndication networks NNN (for ...
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TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as and known colloquially as , is a television station headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, owned and operated by the subsidiary of listed certified broadcasting holding company itself a subsidiary of Nikkei, Inc., serving as the flagship station of the TX Network.." TV Tokyo. Retrieved on June 21, 2010. It is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specialising in anime. History TV Tokyo was established by the Japan Science Foundation in 1951 and started broadcasting, as on April 12, 1964. It took its name from its VHF frequency channel 12. It almost went bankrupt in 1968; on 1 July that year, a limited liability company, Tokyo Channel 12 Production was established with the help of the '' Nikkei'' and Mainichi Broadcasting System. In 1969 the ''Nikkei'' and MBS signed a memorandum of understanding which stipulates that Tokyo Channel 12 should share programs with N ...
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Hideyuki Ohashi
is a Japanese former professional boxer and two-time minimumweight world champion. Professional career Ohashi dropped out of college to begin a professional boxing career, and made his debut in February, 1985, with the Yonekura Boxing Gym. He won the vacant Japanese Light flyweight title in his 6th professional fight, and in December 1986, he challenged Jung-Koo Chang for the WBC Light flyweight title, but lost by TKO in the 5th round. Ohashi reclaimed the Japanese Light flyweight title in January 1988, and challenged Chang for the second time in June of the same year, only to lose again by 8th-round TKO. This was Chang's 15th consecutive defense of the WBC title, and Ohashi was knocked down a total of 7 times in 8 rounds before the referee stopped the contest. Ohashi challenged Jum-Hwan Choi in January 1990 for the Lineal and WBC Minimumweight title, and won by KO to claim his first world title. This win stopped the streak of 21 losses in a row suffered in world title bo ...
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Akira Yaegashi
is a Japanese former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2019. He was a three-weight world champion, having held the WBA mini-flyweight title from 2011 to 2012, the WBC and '' The Ring'' flyweight titles from 2013 to 2014, and the IBF light-flyweight title from 2015 to 2016. He is an alumnus of the Takushoku University. Professional career Yaegashi finished his amateur career with a record of 56–14 after winning the Inter-High School Championship and the National Sports Festival of Japan. His professional debut was at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in March 2005. He won the vacant OPBF mini-flyweight title there via a fifth-round technical knockout in April 2006 and defended the title once before vacating it. In his first world title shot against the WBC mini-flyweight champion Eagle Kyowa at the Pacifico Yokohama in June 2007, Yaegashi lost for the first time by a wide points margin after suffering a broken TMJ in two places due to an accidental headbutt in th ...
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All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Championship
All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Championship (全日本大学バスケットボール選手権大会 ''zen nippon daigaku Basukettoboru senshuken taikai'') is an annual nationwide intercollegiate basketball tournament. It is the largest scale amateur sport event in Japan. The tournament, organized by the All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Federation and ''Asahi Shimbun'', takes place in December at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Previous winners ;men ;women {, , ----- Style="vertical-align:top" , *1954 – Nara Women's University *1955 – Japan Women's Junior College of Physical Education *1956 – Suino fukushoku University Junior College *1957 – Japan Women's Junior College of Physical Education *1958 – Suino fukushoku University Junior College *1959 – Nippon Sport Science University *1960 – Anjo Gakuen university Department of Junior College *1961 – Anjo Gakuen university Department of Junior College *1962 – Anjo Gakuen university Department of Junior Col ...
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NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as NCAA March Madness and commonly called March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship. The tournament was created in 1939 by the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and was the idea of Ohio State coach Harold Olsen. Played mostly during March, it has become one of the biggest annual sporting events in the United States. It has become extremely common in popular culture to predict the outcomes of each game, even among non-sports fans; it is estimated that tens of millions of Americans participate in a bracket pool contest every year. Mainstream media outlets such as ESPN, CBS Sports and Fox Sports host tournaments online where contestants can enter for free. Employers have also noticed a change in th ...
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Rakuten
() is a Japanese technology conglomerate based in Tokyo, founded by Hiroshi Mikitani in 1997. Centered around Rakuten Ichiba, its businesses include financial services utilizing financial technology, as well as digital content and communications services such as the messaging app Viber, e-book distributor Kobo, and Japan's fourth mobile carrier Rakuten Mobile. Rakuten has more than 28,000 employees worldwide, operating in 29 countries and regions, and its revenues totaled US $7.2 billion with operating profits of about US$347.9 million as of 2016. Rakuten was the official sponsor of the Spanish football club FC Barcelona from 2017 until 2021,"Gross Merchandise Sales & Number of Employees"
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