Events

All-event ticket packages for the 2003 World Figure Skating Championships go on sale next Monday.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is to consolidate its digital media unit in the United States with Fox television, leading to ``significant cost savings''.

The British Broadcasting Corporation?s Outside Broadcasts Special Facilities team is to install the world's first slalom gate cameras for a new extreme sports event in Stockholm.

Australia?s Seven Network is eyeing up the country?s National Basketball League (NBL) broadcast rights in the event of it losing the broadcast rights to Australian Football League (AFL) matches.

Icon Display, the UK-based event signage company has appointed Chalkie White to the role of account director, starting in January 2001.

Canal Plus, the pay-TV subsidiary of newly formed French media giant Vivendi Universal (VU) is to sell its 49.5% stake in European sport channel Eurosport to launch a rival sports channel.

The Mexican national soccer team has signed a partnership with US national Spanish-language television network Telemundo to broadcast all of Mexico's exhibition and official games.

Juventus star and FIFA World Player of the Year Zinedine Zidane found himself caught between two car companies after appearing in a television commercial for US giant Ford.

State owned telecommunications company China Netcom has been named the official telecom sponsor of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee.

Car manufacturer Lexus has signed an exclusive naming rights deal with the 5,000-square-foot, members-only bar and restaurant on the event floor level of the First Union Center, home to the Philadelphia 76ers.

The NBA, the WNBA and SportsLine.com, have signed a multi-year global partnership encompassing a variety of strategic initiatives.

Egyptian club Zamalek are asking the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a switch in the venue of this year's African Super Cup from Ghana because of concerns about safety.

A survey of UK viewing habits has revealed an increase in the amount of sport watched by the British television audience last year.

The International Olympic Committee has confirmed it will grant internet organisations accreditation at the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.

Staples Center owners, the L.A. Arena Co, are to sell the Great Western Forum - the Los Angeles Lakers' former home ? to a church group in a $22.5million deal.

Some 28 Chinese democracy activists have urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to press Beijing, which is bidding to host the 2008 Olympic Games, to free jailed dissidents.