Events

Car manufacturer Volvo confirmed it is to sponsor November's New Zealand Golf Open at Gulf Harbour.

Nationwide Building Society and The Football Association (The FA) announced today (Friday 11 August 2006), a new partnership that will see Nationwide become the exclusive Official England Team Sponsor.

UEFA today launched a tender for the non-European broadcast rights for UEFA EURO 2008.

The Spanish Primera Liga signed three new TV deals with UK pay TV broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting, with German cable consortium Arena and with Talpa TV in the Netherlands.

Two of South Korea’s main broadcasters are threatening to sue rival SBS, saying it breached a non-compete agreement by acquiring exclusive TV rights for the Olympic Games and the World Cup.

The Australian Sailing Team agreed a deal with carmaker, Audi, as a second major co-sponsor for the Team until the 2008 Olympic Games.

The Australian government has called for wider consultation with the broadcasting industry over the rules for televising major sports events ahead of the introduction of a proposed “use it or lose it” regime.

Public-service broadcaster MTV and pay-channel Sport 1 acquired the broadcast rights in Hungary for UEFA EURO 2008.

Soccerex is delighted to announce a unique panel that will be discussing Naming Rights at the 10th Soccerex, to be held at the Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, November 26-28, 2006.

ESPN has acquired the multimedia rights to broadcast Major League Soccer matches and other events in an eight-year deal until 2014.

Setanta Sports agreed a deal to sublicense the rights for more than 90 English Premier League matches in the 2006-07 season from Fox Soccer Channel.

There is growing concern among broadcasters worldwide that the International Olympic Committee will give in to the demands of US network NBC to change the scheduling of the 2008 Beijing Olympics to suit US prime-time viewing it is exclusively reported in TV Sports Markets.

Soccerex, the world's largest business to business football convention, is delighted to announce that subject to Parliamentary commitments, the UK Minister for Sport, Rt Hon Richard Caborn MP will be attending the 10th annual Soccerex convention, held at the Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, 26th-28th November 2006.

USA Basketball agreed deals with five companies: Chevrolet, The Coca-Cola Company, McDonald’s, Gatorade, and Molten – to promote their brands and products through USA Basketball exhibitions, games, media and special events.

UEFA awarded the free to air UEFA Cup and Super Cup rights to commercial broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1.

UEFA awarded commercial free-to-air broadcaster ATV the rights in Turkey for EURO 2008.