Events

SFX Entertainment has acquired Candid Productions, producers of professional figure skating events, formerly owned and operated by Dick Button.

Worldwide Entertainment & Sports Corp., the US-based management, marketing and commercial endorsement agency, have formed an Internet subsidiary, Sportcut.com, Inc. and put in place a senior management team to lead the business.

The Restrictive Practices Court in London is to make a landmark court ruling today on the way in which television rights to English Premier League games are sold.

Denver billionaire Donald Sturm has emerged as the winning bidder for Ascent Entertainment Group's Denver Nuggets professional basketball team and the Colorado Avalanche pro hockey team, after a competitor bowed out.

The BBC has warmly welcomed a decision in London's Restrictive Practices Court which ruled in favour of the English Premier League selling broadcast rights en bloc for all its 20 clubs.

The Sri Lankan cricket board has signed a $7.75 million deal with India's Sony Entertainment Television that gives the company rights to telecast all matches played on the Indian Ocean island.

A leading legal expert in London says the decision to rule in favour of the Premier League's en bloc sale of exclusive broadcast rights is 'out of line' with those made in Europe on the same collective selling issue.

Quokka Sports, Inc., the online sports entertainment programmer, have launched an initial public offering of 5m shares of common stock at a price of $12.00 per share.

The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has signed an IR#18 million ($24.3 million) sponsorship deal with the country's Telecom provider.

Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL), the company behind the new English national stadium project at Wembley, have revealed an increase in stadium costs from #320m to #475m.

News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch has said he is not interested in lifting his stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream from its current 35 percent.

Final plans have been unveiled for the #320million ($512m) re-development of the world famous Wembley Stadium - with confirmation that the famous twin towers will be demolished.

Italy's Antitrust competition regulator has told Telepiu it must stick to a law which limits any one pay-TV operator to a 60 percent slice of rights to broadcast Italian first division soccer matches.

Plans for a new basketball and ice hockey arena in Dallas, due for completion in autumn 2001, have been unveiled by city officials.

ISL has signed a deal with adidas to be a licensee and official supplier to UEFA's Euro 2000 tournament.

The US Justice Department has brought the first charges from its investigation into the Salt Lake City Olympics bidding scandal as a Utah businessman agreed to plead guilty and cooperate in the probe.