SYDNEY -- Network Ten and paybox Foxtel have joined forces to snag the rights for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.
Games are a big ratings draw Down Under, with the 2006 edition on the Nine Network drawing a boffo 3.5 million to the Opening Ceremony - but it was a higher aud than usual as the Games were staged in Melbourne.
Both webs tubthumped the higher level of coverage that two networks can provide as well as the new mediums they will use to bring it to viewers, such as new HD channels, mobiles and the Web.
It's the second time that Foxtel and Ten have ganged up on the more dominant Seven and Nine. Foxtel and Ten won a joint bid for an output deal with 20th Century Fox Television last year in which they share first-run content, a local first.
The Commonwealth Games will run from Oct.3 -14.
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