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The Formula One racing teams have denied Bernie Ecclestone his wish that conversations between drivers in the pits should be broadcast live on the sport?s digital TV channel.
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Manchester United?s club television channel ? MUTV ? has been launched in Scandinavia, giving fans in Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland the ability to subscribe to the digital broadcast.
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BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.
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S:COMM, the Stockholm-based market research compnay, has agreed a partnership with Lynne Anderson Consulting Group in Sydney, Australia. The group will add S:Comm?s Spindex monitoring service to its value-added services for brand exposure evaluation during spring 2000.
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Emergency repairs are needed at the Sydney Olympics swimming venue after engineers discovered at least six structural faults which threatened the safety of construction workers.
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BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.
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The International Football Channel (TIFC), the world's first 24 hour soccer network, due to launch its Spanish-language, Latin American signal March 1, has revealed its programming schedule.
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Bluetorch, the cross-media network for extreme sports, is to produce and take the title sponsorship of the largest surfing event in North America.
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Greg Dyke, the new director-general of the BBC, is set to bring the BBC's sports operation under a single leader.
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The first test of enhanced security measures for next year's European soccer championships caused long traffic tailbacks at the weekend and led to complaints from local residents.
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Women's health and leisure channel TM3 has said it has scored a television first after millions of hardcore German soccer fans tuned in to watch the European Champions League.
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Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics has awarded the Pepsi-Cola Group, the exclusive carbonated soft drink pouring rights and sponsorship at Network Associates Coliseum (`The Net?) making Pepsi its `Official Soft Drink?.
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Formula One has announced a new $48million `entry fee' for new teams.
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Octagon, the Interpublic-owned sports marketing and entertainment group, is expanding into South East Asia through a partnership with Singapore-based sports marketing firm RTA.
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A total of $647,600 in prize money will be awarded at the inaugural Winter Goodwill Games in Lake Placid, New York, from February 17-20, organisers have announced.
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The two clubs who reach the European Cup Final next May will each receive up to 25,000 tickets for the match at the Stade de France in Paris, UEFA has announced.
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The European Commission?s sports commissioner, Viviane Reding, has indicated that soccer leagues in Europe may be allowed to continue negotiating their broadcast rights on a collective basis.
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Italian champions AC Milan will launch their own television channel in January, the club has announced.