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May 8th, 2011
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
9 May 2011
Fanciful predictions said two billion people would watch the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton live on TV around the world - and around 300m actually did, according to preliminary findings of research by sportingintelligence into the real global audience.
That figure is an extrapolation from figures in 11 major countries that account for almost half the world’s population: China, India, the USA, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Canada and Australia.
Those countries are all in the top 50 by population, and include the three most populous. The total...
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April 21st, 2011
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
22 April 2011
The best paid sportsmen in the world, judged on average earnings per player across whole leagues, are the basketball players who make their living in the NBA in North America, according to the findings of sportingintelligence's Global Sports Salaries Report 2011 (GSSS 2011), published today.
Across the 30 teams in the NBA, the average base salary in the latest completed season was £2.9m per player per season, or £55,816 per week. At current exchange rates, that equates to US$4.79m per year (which is €3.29m per year) or US$92,199 per week (which is...
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April 20th, 2011
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
20 April 2011
Barcelona are the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, ahead of their great rivals Real Madrid in second place, knocking baseball’s New York Yankees from the No1 spot, according to the Global Sports Salaries Survey 2011, to be published this week by sportingintelligence.
The average first team pay at Barcelona has been calculated at £95,081 per player per week, or £4,944,211 per year in the period under review. Real Madrid’s players in No2 place earned £88,421 per week (£4.6m per year) while first-team stars at the...
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