SportBusiness Staff

The potential of sport in the streaming media and broadband content industry will be just one of the issues discussed at a conference in London next week.

UK?based venture capitalists 3i have invested #3millon in Sport First - the UK?s only national sports newspaper.

Tickets for England?s forthcoming tests against Australia and South Africa have sold out faster than for any previous autumn internationals at Twickenham Stadium.

Formula One?s governing body the FIA has returned the British Grand Prix to July ? following a string of protests and problems when it was staged earlier in the year.

Mugen-Honda, the Formula One engine suppliers, may stay in the sport next season contrary to widespread speculation that they were pulling out, team boss Hirotoshi Honda has said.

Technology Holdings, a joint venture company formed by Comcast Corporation and QVC, has closed a $40.8 million strategic investment in Global Sports.

The European Union's Health Commissioner David Byrne has said he planned fresh proposals to crack down on smoking in the wake of a court ruling which overturned EU legislation banning tobacco advertising.

Online sports media company Total Sports, has teamed up with multimedia sports marketing company International Sports Properties (ISP Sports) to expand the Total College Sports Network (TCSN) with seven new collegiate properties.

Sponsorshiponline, the UK-based online sponsorship resource, has gone live.

World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) and sports media technology company Sportvision will provide live webcast coverage of the 2000 Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii October 14.