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Euroleague Basketball and Mediazone to Provide Final Four Prague 2006; Live Coverage of ''The Road to Prague'' Begins April 28.


REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif. -- Mediazone, a leading global online broadcaster, and Euroleague Basketball, today announced that they will partner to provide live broadband broadcasts of the final four games of the 2005-2006 Euroleague Basketball season starting Friday, April 28, 2006 at 11:30 am EDT EDT
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, and continue through to the Euroleague championship on April 30, 2006 at 2:30 PM EDT.

Basketball enthusiasts will be able to watch live coverage from Prague's Sazka Arena Sazka Arena in Prague, Czech Republic is one of the most modern multifunctional arenas in Europe. It was built in time for the 2004 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. Its capacity of 18,000 makes it one of the largest arenas in Europe, and one of very few built on the scale of  of the Euroleague Basketball Final Four, featuring Maccabi Elite, Tau Ceramica, Winterthur FC Barcelona Futbol Club Barcelona, known familiarly as Barça (IPA: 'baɾ.sə), is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is best known for its football team. It was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English, and Catalan men led by Joan Gamper.  and CSKA Moscow CSKA Moscow (Central Sports Army Club Moscow, Russian: ЦСКА Москва) is a major Russian sports club based in Moscow. . With heightened expectation and drama surrounding "The Road to Prague," coverage of these four teams battling to become the Euroleague champion is sure to provide unrivaled basketball action and entertainment.

"In its first year of internally managing all media rights, Euroleague Basketball has decided to embrace new technologies for programming distribution," said Andrea Bassani, Institutional Relations and TV Director, Euroleague Basketball, S.L. "Once we evaluated all of the different potential solutions, Euroleague basketball has decided that Mediazone was the ideal partner to distribute our competition as widely as possible, while providing a high-quality product and consumer experience. With this long term agreement, we are excited to partner with Mediazone and provide the distribution of our competition to new markets throughout the world."

To view these exciting events, Mediazone offers an All Access Pass for $9.99 which includes live viewing of two semi-finals, the third place game and Final Championship games. The games will be archived and available for on-demand download and online streaming at Mediazone for up to 30 days after purchase. Mediazone also offers single-game pay-per-view (PPV Positive predictive value (PPV)
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) access for $4.99. This highly anticipated programming and the variety of viewing options are all available at: http://www.mediazone.com/euroleague.

"Mediazone is thrilled to partner with Euroleague Basketball in order to offer coverage of this season's Final Four and more than 200 games next year to audiences worldwide," said David Yusem, Director of Content, Mediazone. "By delivering the live broadband distribution of an event that has always been unavailable outside of limited European broadcast markets, we feel that we are reaching out to yet another vastly underserved market of sports fans."

The Euroleague Final Four basketball event will be available worldwide except for the following territories: Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia-Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the U.K.
FINAL FOUR PRAGUE 2006 Confirmed Schedule:
              April 28, 2006:
              Semifinal B Game -
              Maccabi Elite Tel Avis (Israel) vs. Tau Ceramica (Spain)
              15:30 GMT, 5:30 PM CEST, 11:30 AM EDT

              Semifinal A Game -
              Winterthur FC Barcelona (Spain) vs. CSKA Moscow (Russia)
              18:30 GMT, 8:30 PM CEST, 2:30 PM EDT

              April 30, 2006:
              Third Place Game
              15:30 GMT, 5:30 PM CEST, 11:30 AM EDT

              Final Game
              18:30 GMT, 8:30 PM CEST, 2:30 PM EDT


To check out the full offer go to: http://www.mediazone.com/euroleague.

About Mediazone.com, Inc.

Mediazone is a leading global online broadcaster specializing in sports, entertainment, and international programming. Mediazone offers both subscription and pay-per-view access to live and on-demand event broadcasts online, helping consumers stay connected with hard-to-find, yet highly relevant programming, while providing media owners with a new channel to distribute and monetize Monetize

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 Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Naspers (Nasdaq:NPSN NPSN NAS Processing System Network
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). For more information, please visit Mediazone.com.

About Euroleague Basketball, S.L.

Europe's premier basketball competition, Euroleague Basketball, was founded in 2000 under a private organizational model that is considered a breakthrough for European professional team sports. The competition features 24 clubs from 12 or more countries per season and crowns its champion each spring at the Euroleague Final Four, one of the signature events of European sports. The 2006 Euroleague Final Four will take place in Prague, Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. , April 28-30. Basketball in Europe has experienced spectacular growth in recent years, side by side with the development of Euroleague Basketball. In just five years, Euroleague Basketball has consolidated a competition of the highest sporting level, has introduced the concept of a commercial league to Europe and has expanded its television reach beyond Europe, where 98.7 percent of all Euroleague Basketball games were televised in 2004-05, to Africa, the Middle East, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Euroleague Basketball attendance has increased 79 percent since the inaugural 2000-01 season. For more information, please visit www.euroleague.net.
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