In South Korea, internet-gaming stars earn six-figure dollar salaries, attend university on special gaming scholarships and have massive fan clubs glued to the two cable channels dedicated to the sport.

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This just was not a minority sport on some obscure cable channel.

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But Mr Clegg said moving responsibility for deciding on News Corp's bid for BSkyB to the Culture, Media and Sport Department meant Mr Cable and the government could move on.

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Baseball has more inventory than any sport and with the national cable sports networks Fox Sports One, ESPN and NBC Sports battling it out for supremacy over couch potatoes, MLB was in a particularly strong negotiating position.

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Acer's latest desktops sport an aesthetically-pleasing black chassis that provides handy cable management.

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's cable behemoth has a stake in nearly every big U.S. sport.

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Sadly, there is still a fair bit of cable-noise while walking around, that is unless you opt for the "sport fit" by wrapping the wires behind your ears.

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He figures that when General Motors one day launches a sport utility vehicle with interactive ads, it won't have to wade through rival technical standards for cable, DirecTV and the broadcast networks.

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