Events
WORLDZAP LAUNCH TAKES SPORTS MEDIA INTO NEW AGE
Prisma Sports & Media has launched a joint venture with The Fantastic Corporation to deliver sports content to mobile phones in a move which, they say, will change the sports environment forever.
PEACOCK SEALS SOCCER DEAL
Publicly owned investment holding company, Peacock Financial Corp. has acquired the Bay Area Seals, the professional A-league soccer club of San Francisco, California.
CHASE TO FINANCE NEW WEMBLEY SCHEME
US bank Chase Manhattan says it has been appointed to arrange financing for England's new national sports stadium, to be located at Wembley in north London.
DAVID PAYNE JOINS CNN/SPORTS ILLUSTRATED INTERACTIVE
David Payne has been named to the new position of senior vice president and general manager of CNN/Sports Illustrated Interactive,. Payne will oversee all business activity of CNN/Sports Illustrated Interactive, which includes the 24-hour sports Web site CNNSI.com. Payne is based in Atlanta and reports to Jim Walton, president of CNN/Sports Illustrated.
SPORTSLINE.COM NAMES JOE FERREIRA VP, PROGRAMMING
SportsLine.com has appointed Joe Ferreira to the position of Vice President, Programming.
EURO 2000 SECURITY FUNDS GET BUDGET BOOST
The Dutch government has topped up its security spending for next year?s Euro 2000 championship it is co-hosting with Belgium, bringing the total budget to $6.75million.
NHL EXEC JOINS UNIVISION AS PRESIDENT OF SPORTS DIVISION
US Spanish-language television broadcast company, Univision Communications Inc., have announced that Stephen J. Solomon, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the National Hockey League, will join Univision as president of its sports division.
REDSKINS TO NAME BALDACCI PRESIDENT
The Washington Redskins plan to name Steve Baldacci their team president within the next several days, according to a report in the Washington Post.
QUARTERBACKS SET FOR INVESTMENT WINDFALL
Past and present National Football League quarterbacks are looking to score big with an investment in a company that produces television-style programming for the Internet.
OLYMPICS CHIEF APOLOGISES FOR TICKET FIASCO
Sydney's Olympic Games chief has apologised to Australians for a misleading public ticket ballot and promised to refund thousands of fans who had ended up with third-choice tickets.
CBS LOSE OUT ON LANDMARK NASCAR DEAL
NASCAR has reached television deals with NBC, Turner Sports and Fox television networks beginning in the 2001 season.
E*TRADE SPONSOR SUPER BOWL SHOW
E*TRADE Group, a global leader in electronic personal financial services, has signed an agreement with the NFL to sponsor the Super Bowl XXXIV Half-time Show.
BSKYB AND KIRCH AGREE DEAL
British Sky Broadcasting, 40% owned by News Corporation, has agreed to pay $1.5 billion for a 24% stake in KirchPayTV, the German pay-TV operator.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX SIGNS INTERNET PARTNER
Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox and Internet venture Ignite Sports Media have agreed a multi-year Internet media rights licensing contract.
MARCONI NAMED NEW TITLE SPONSOR OF CLEVELAND’S CART GP
IMG Motorsports and Marconi have agreed that Marconi Systems will become title sponsor of Cleveland's CART racing event.
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRMS CONSIDER PREMIER LEAGUE RIGHTS
Several private equity firms are looking into the possibility of competing for Premier League broadcast rights, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.
NTL AND EUROSPORT JOIN PREMIER LEAGUE BIDDERS
NTL, the $14.4bn cable and communications company, is lining up a #1bn bid for exclusive Premier League football rights, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.
MURDOCH MEETS OPPOSITION TO CL RIGHTS TRANSFER
A leading German politician has spoken out against Rupert Murdoch's plans to buy outright and then close down the Munich-based analogue channel tm3, which currently holds the broadcast rights to Champions League football.