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The battle for one of the world's hottest broadcast deals kicked off on Monday when England's top 20 soccer clubs set terms for the sale of their lucrative Premier League screening rights.
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In a bid to get back into professional football broadcasting, the NBC television network will form a 50-50 partnership with World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc., to own and operate the new XFL football league and its eight teams.
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Hal Whiteford has been appointed to the newly created post of President of Racing at CART Inc., sanctioning body for the FedEx Championship Series.
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A regional court has overturned a 1998 ruling by Italy's Antitrust watchdog that a sports rights accord
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English Premier League clubs are expected to suceed in winning the `deferred rights? to their games when the contract for TV rights to the lucrative league is renegotiated later this year.
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This year?s NBA All-Star Game received the lowest rating in the history of the event, scoring a 6.9 rating and a 12 share on NBC.
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German athletics officials have launched a bid to host the 2005 world athletics championships in Berlin even though the deadline for entries was January 31.
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice president Kevan Gosper has continued his defence of the alleged expenses incurred during his family?s stay in Salt Lake City.
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The UK government has rejected a report calling for greater restrictions on the sponsorship of sport by alcohol companies, fearing that it could cause financial problems for teams and events and prove unpopular with the fans.
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South African World Cup 2006 bid officials are planning a charm offensive in Europe later this month, trying to convince European members of the FIFA executive committee of the merits of their candidacy.
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ESPN and ABC Sports will merge their advertising sales staffs and have named Edward R. Erhardt, most recently vice president and group publisher of Advertising Age magazine to lead the combined entity.
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The French government has agreed on a bill to tax revenues from broadcasting rights and use the proceeds to help sport at local and youth level.
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Sky Sports has said it will allow the crunch England v Scotland Euro 200 soccer play-off second-leg to be shown live on terrestrial television, despite holding exclusive broadcast rights.
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An Australian member of the International Olympic Committee severely reprimanded for taking free holidays in Salt Lake City has backed a possible permanent ban on IOC visits to cities bidding to host Games.
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Australian Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that the Aussie government planned to apply its new 10 percent consumption tax to Sydney 2000 Olympics tickets sold at inflated prices to the wealthy.
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Sports TV company Sportsworld Media has struck a #22.4 million deal to buy Australian Media Holdings, the TV and sports sponsorship group.
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IOC chief Juan Antonio Samaranch has stepped into the row over the future of London's Wembley Stadium when he said that an arena holding 65,000 spectators would be big enough to host the Summer Games.
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Former UK Sports Minister Tony Banks will give evidence to an inquiry into the fiasco surrounding the new #475million national stadium at Wembley.