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IMG, originally known as the International Management Group is a global sports and media business headquartered in New York City. IMG was founded by Mark McCormack. McCormack was an American lawyer who spotted the potential for athletes to make large incomes from endorsement in the television age, and signed golfer Arnold Palmer as his first client. McCormack died in 2003. In 2004 Forstmann Little led by Theodore J. Forstmann acquired the company and Mr. Forstmann was chairman and CEO until his death in late 2011. In 2006, IMG Media acquired nunet AG, a provider of Mobile TV services to Mobile Network Operators globally. Clients of nunet's Mobile TV CMS currently include: Vodafone Global, Proximus, Vodacom, Mobilkom A1. Content distributed currently includes MTV, Fashion TV, Eurosport and Discovery Networks. In November 2007, IMG acquired Kentucky-based Host Communications, which had multiple business units with services ranging from sports marketing and broadcasting to the management...