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The XFL may be accused of attracting poor primetime ratings on NBC, but the head of Fox Sports has said that the football league's innovations such as on-field cameras and microphones could have ``major ramifications'' for TV coverage of all other sports.
Business

The NFL?s St. Louis Rams are seeking a new naming rights sponsor for the franchises? stadium following the bankruptcy in January of Trans World Airlines.
Business

Alan Sugar's 10-year reign as the owner of Tottenham Hotspur ended on Wednesday when media group ENIC completed its purchase of his 26.9 percent holding, worth around 22 million pounds ($31.84 million).
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder urged the Kirch Group on Wednesday to resume talks with public broadcasters to ensure that the 2002 and 2006 soccer World Cups can be seen on free television in Germany.
Business

English premiership club Tottenham Hotspur Plc said sport and media group ENIC had completed its purchase of former chairman Alan Sugar's 26.9 percent holding, worth around 22 million pounds.
Business

German media group EM.TV & Merchandising has exercised an option to lift its stake in Formula One racing to 75 percent, gaining control over broadcast rights to one of the world's most popular sporting events.
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TVNZ Satellite Services is hopeful it will retain the Premier League global satellite carriage contract when the current three-year contract concludes at the end of the 2000-2001 season.
Business

Formula One will still be broadcast live on German free television after Kirch and EM.TV increase their stake in the holding which owns the commercial rights to races, Kirch said on Wednesday.
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GlobeCast is to host the Salt Lake City 2002 Broadcast Base at its technical operations centre in the host city.
Business

TVNZ Satellite Services has appointed the ex-BBC and BSkyB specialist Jenny Webb to head its new regional office in Sydney.
Business

The Indian cricket team are temporarily dropping a cigarette logo, following the government's move to end sponsorship of sporting events by tobacco firms.
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Formula One's five European car makers said on Tuesday they opposed any moves that would lead to one television company controlling the commercial rights to races.
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The head of Renault Sport says it is out of the question for Formula One racing to be broadcast on pay-television channels.
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A number of leading UK sports events could be axed amid fears over the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
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NBC will honour its two-year contractual commitment to XFL - despite another viewing figure slide in Week Four of the season.
Business

ISL has been dealt a huge snub by soccer?s world governing body FIFA after it lost out in the right to market this year?s Club World Championship.
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Viewpoint Technologies Ltd. has been appointed the ?Official Supplier of Games Enabling Systems for the 2001 Goodwill Games in Brisbane?.
Business

The NFL?s Philadelphia Eagles and Major League Baseball?s Phillies are upbeat about their prospects of securing lucrative naming rights deal for their new facilities.