Events

Canadian French-language broadcaster RDS has signed a one year local TV contract with the Montreal Expos for a reported $3 million.

Accra's Sports Stadium has been banned from hosting next month's African Super Cup and the match switched to nearby Kumasi in Ghana, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced in Cairo.

The Levi's jeans brand is to make its Super Bowl advertising debut with a new multi-part television commercial, online activities and a retail programme.

The Athens Olympics will give a 2.5 percent fillip to Greece's gross national product in 2004, the year the games return to their ancestral roots, organising committee (ATHOC) head Gianna Angelopoulou said.

Quokka Sports is set to report a net loss of around $20m in its fourth quarter results.

John Lewis has been promoted to director of operations for the Indy Racing League.

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.