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Extreme Sports Channel, the first ever 24 hour extreme sports content channel, is to launch in the UK, available free of charge to digital satellite TV subscribers.
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The English Football Association has finally given permission for a foreign broadcaster to set up its own television cameras for coverage of an international match.
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Omega Networks has launched www.ticket2sports.com a broadband, online sports resource providing fans with a virtual ticket to video-on-demand for amateur sports.
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As the track and field stage of the Olympics gets underway, NBC will be hoping for a reversal of its fortunes.
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South Africa has called for several team sports to be axed from the Olympic games because they were unnecessary and put the event beyond the financial reach of most developing countries.
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Al-Ahram, the Egyptian international media group, has signed a deal with EPSIS to introduce virtual advertising to its soccer broadcasts.
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Compaq Computer Corp is looking to put its name on the San Jose Arena, home to the San Jose Sharks.
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US satellite pay-TV company DIRECTV and digital sports content provider, Quokka Sports have formed a strategic relationship aimed at further developing interactive sports content programming to DIRECTV's next generation set-top boxes.
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US television company WorldTel has won the production and distribution rights for cricket matches in Bangladesh for five years.
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Negotiations between the New York Yankees and Madison Square Garden Network (MSG) over a new broadcast contract have been postponed beyond the deadline set by the two parties for the beginning of this week.
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Internet TV company Kamera Interactive is to deliver broadband broadcasts from the Olympic Games for Swedish communication company Bredbandsbolaget (B2).
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Ratings for NBC?s coverage of the Olympics are down on all three previous Games.
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Sydney Games organisers shut the main Olympic Park to people without tickets or day passes, saying the site could not cope with the growing crush.
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Catering and hospitality venture Twickenham Experience Ltd, has appointed its first managing director.
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Fifteen days after its official launch, the new sports information channel, Eurosportnews, has unveiled its first national version in Poland.
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The IAAF has awarded Melbourne the right to host athletics? 2001 IAAF Grand Prix Final.
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Manchester United Plc has appointed Alison Ryan, currently head of public policy at NTL, to the newly created post of director of communications.
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Promising a "utopia" for competitors, Toronto Olympic bid organisers have sought to rally athletes behind their campaign for the 2008 Games.