Events

The XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin delivered British Eurosport's best ever audience for a single event.

John Shannon, who stepped down as the head of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment's digital hockey and basketball channels last month, is the NHL's new senior vice-president of broadcasting.

Mobile phone operator T-Mobile International has tied up mobile broadcast rights covering all 64 matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup across seven European territories.

Emirates Airline has signed on as main sponsor of Hamburger SV, one of Germany’s top-flight soccer clubs.

MICE Group has recruited two industry veterans to lead its new sports marketing division, Aidan Day and Robert Owen, the former managing director and senior vice president of Octagon Marketing UK.

Fast Track Events Limited, organisers of the forthcoming 2006 VISA Paralympic World Cup, has appointed WGT Sport Limited as Official Supplier of Travel, Transport and Accommodation for the event.

Arena has signed up Plazamedia to carry out the production and implementation of its German Premier League football programming.

Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has secured broadcast rights for next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup being held in the West Indies.

UK race track Donington Park has appointed full-service marketing agency RSM to manage its brand positioning and publicise its redevelopment.

Arena has signed up Plazamedia to carry out the technical production and implementation of its German Premier League football programming.

NASN has secured exclusive pan-European rights to televise the inaugural World Baseball Classic.

Sportev has teamed up with Betfair to deliver live coverage of tennis' ATP Tour in Acapulco exclusively to the betting exchange's UK customers.

Turin may have shown the way to an "environmentally friendly Winter Olympics" says the head of the U.N. Environment Program.

Nimbus Sport has agreed another three television deals, with ARY Digital, GEO TV and StarHub.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has received bids from 15 member boards for its package of events from 2007 to 2015.

WCE has signed an exclusive three-year deal with TWI for The World’s Strongest Man Super Series.

A series of television deals with broadcasters from Europe and beyond have been agreed for motor racing’s FIA GT Championship.

EchoStar Satellite LLC has agreed a deal with Nimbus for exclusive broadcast rights of Indian cricket from March 2006 to March 2010.