Events

The sports and entertainment agency RDA Communications has taken on the former Football Association International marketing manager to work on the agency?s international World Wrestling Federation business.

Worldzap has made sporting and media history with the first ever goal to be delivered as a live video clip to a mobile phone.

The capacity of Sydney Football Stadium may be increased to 50,000 with the expansion funded by the sale of naming rights, according to Australian press reports..

A Houston-based energy firm is expected to pay about $300million for the naming rights to Houston?s new football stadium and Astrodome.

German media group EM.TV & Merchandising AG, which is digesting two high profile acquisitions, has appointed Rolf Rickmeyer as chief financial officer.

European online auction house QXL.com has scheduled its sale of Wembley Stadium memorabilia for October 30.

The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has appointed independent London-based advisors Oliver & Ohlbaum to find a purchaser for the federation?s global internet and broadcast rights.

Australia?s Ten Network and sports graphics company Pineapplehead Ltd will broadcast a virtual Melbourne Cup race before the officially gets underway next month.

Inspired by the success of the Lifetime women's cable channel, the USA Network has begun screening TV movies and mini-series on Saturday afternoons as an alternative to the sports programming on broadcast networks.

Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis has sacked a senior 2004 Athens Games organiser for publicly squabbling with a minister a day after the premier had called for restraint.

NTL has pulled out of a multi-million dollar deal to broadcast English Premier League soccer matches on a pay-per-view basis.

The Professional Squash Association (PSA) has announced that the Men's World Open rights and title for the years 2001-2005 have been granted to Procam International.

Sky Sports and CISCO Systems have joined forced for the sponsorship and development of Sky Sports? on-screen graphics.

Sky and talkSPORT have signed the inaugural total broadcast sponsorship deal, allowing online and digital betting in the UK.

World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. (WWFE) has signed distribution deals with Bulgarian, Japanese and Russian TV companies in an effort to expand its Asian and Eastern European audiences.

Ashursts, acting on behalf of TVDanmark, recently brought judicial review proceedings in the Court of Appeal against the Independent Television Commission (ITC).