Events
TURIN GAMES DELIVERS FOR BRITISH EUROSPORT
The XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin delivered British Eurosport's best ever audience for a single event.
NEW NHL BROADCAST HEAD TO KEEP IT SIMPLE
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.
T-MOBILE SCORE WORLD CUP RIGHTS
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.
AIRLINE FLIES TO TOP GERMAN CLUB
Emirates Airline has signed on as main sponsor of Hamburger SV, one of Germany’s top-flight soccer clubs.
OCTAGON VETERANS JOIN NEW SPORTS MARKETING OPERATION
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.
LOGISTICS SUPPLIER SIGNED FOR WORLD CUP EVENT
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.
PLAZAMEDIA LAND ARENA ROLE
Arena has signed up Plazamedia to carry out the production and implementation of its German Premier League football programming.
CMC SECURES CRICKET WORLD CUP RIGHTS
Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) has secured broadcast rights for next year’s ICC Cricket World Cup being held in the West Indies.
MARKETING AGENCY IN POSITION FOR CIRCUIT REVAMP
UK race track Donington Park has appointed full-service marketing agency RSM to manage its brand positioning and publicise its redevelopment.
PLAZAMEDIA TO PLAY FOR ARENA
Arena has signed up Plazamedia to carry out the technical production and implementation of its German Premier League football programming.
TV DEAL FOR WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
NASN has secured exclusive pan-European rights to televise the inaugural World Baseball Classic.
BETTING EXCHANGE SERVES UP BROADBAND COVERAGE
Sportev has teamed up with Betfair to deliver live coverage of tennis' ATP Tour in Acapulco exclusively to the betting exchange's UK customers.
UN BACKS GREEN OLYMPICS
Turin may have shown the way to an "environmentally friendly Winter Olympics" says the head of the U.N. Environment Program.
NIMBUS UNVEILS THREE MORE TV DEALS
Nimbus Sport has agreed another three television deals, with ARY Digital, GEO TV and StarHub.
CRICKET BIDS IN BUT COMBINED ASIAN BID MISSES DEADLINE
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has received bids from 15 member boards for its package of events from 2007 to 2015.
WCE AND TWI SHOW STRENGTH IN PARTNERSHIP
WCE has signed an exclusive three-year deal with TWI for The World’s Strongest Man Super Series.
FIA GT CHAMPIONSHIP UNVEILS CLUTCH OF TV DEALS
A series of television deals with broadcasters from Europe and beyond have been agreed for motor racing’s FIA GT Championship.
NIMBUS AGREE BROADCAST AND SPONSOR DEALS
EchoStar Satellite LLC has agreed a deal with Nimbus for exclusive broadcast rights of Indian cricket from March 2006 to March 2010.