Events
BIG SCREEN BAN FOR EURO CITIES
Amsterdam and Eindhoven are to ban outdoor television screens for showing matches during the European championship finals in June because they are worried that rival fans will clash.
SPORTSLINE TO SET UP ASIAN JOINT VENTURE
SportsLine.com and its majority-owned European subsidiary Sports.com, intend to form an Internet joint venture with Asiacontent.com, a leading developer of Asian Internet content, advertising and e-commerce services.
YAHOO! SPORTS SPONSORS U.S. SKI AND SNOWBOARD TEAM
The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team has signed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., designating Yahoo! Sports as the team's exclusive Internet Services sponsor.
BSKYB TO BID #250M FOR WORLD CUP RIGHTS
BSkyB has offered #250million for exclusive UK television rights to the World Cup 2002, according to The Observer newspaper.
MINISTER URGED TO RECONSIDER WEMBLEY PLANS
A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.
BLUE DAY FOR TALKSPORT IN NEW SPONSOR DEAL
UK online betting service Bluesq.com has signed a $650,000 deal with sport-only radio station talkSPORT.
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.
AFRICA PUTS STRONG CASE FOR WORLD CUP BID
Danny Jordaan made a powerful appeal to FIFA's executive committee to end the cycle of European domination of world soccer by handing South Africa the 2006 World Cup finals.
CLEAR CHANNEL BUYS SFX IN $4.4 BILLION DEAL
Leading US radio company Clear Channel Communications Inc is to buy SFX Entertainment Inc., the US entertainment and sports group for $4.4 billion in stock and debt in a bid to winmore business from advertisers.
CLUBS SET TO WIN KEY RIGHTS BATTLE
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.
NFL APPOINTS NEW VP OF INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Alan Gold has been named NFL vice president of international media, following the departure from the post of long term incumbent Anne Murray.
OLYMPIC BID CITIES ATTEND IOC SEMINAR
The 10 cities hoping to host the 2008 Summer Games left International Olympic Committee headquarters this week confident they would all clear the first hurdle in the bidding process.
FIFA PRAISE MOROCCO BID AS `OUTSTANDING?
A FIFA inspection team has arrived in Morocco for a five-day visit, saying the country's bid file to host the 2006 World Cup was outstanding.
MOROCCANS SURPRISED BY POLL RESULTS
A Moroccan official said he was surprised by the results of a poll of sports editors showing the country was bottom of the list of the five bidding to host the 2006 World Cup finals.
ESPN SERVES UP TENNIS DEAL
ESPN Star Sports has secured an exclusive cable and satellite deal with the ATP Tour for the new Tennis Masters Series, previously known as the Mercedes Super 9 Series and the Tennis Masters Cup for the 2000 though 2002 seasons.
NEWS CORP/LIBERTY TARGETS EASTERN EUROPE
News Corp and Liberty Media has announced that its joint venture Fox Sports International is to launch a sports television channel targeting viewers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.
LONDON LICENSING SHOW JOINS FORCES WITH NEW YORK
Single Market Events, organisers of Brand Licensing London, have formed a strategic alliance with Avanstar Communications, organisers of the New York International Licensing Show.
WEMBLEY APPOINTS BUILDING CONTRACTORS
Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL) has appointed Bovis Lend Lease/ Multiplex Constructions Limited as the preferred contractors for the construction of the new Wembley Stadium.