Events

The Yorkshire County Cricket Club has appointed Stewart Regan to the board as the club’s new chief executive.

US network NBC has claimed its coverage of the Torino Olympic Winter Games will be the most extensive of any winter Olympics ever, amounting to 416 hours across its networks.

Veteran motor sports specialist Mullin Production Group (MPG) has been appointed as the television production partner to The Champ Car World Series for the 2006 season.

Red Letter Days has been named title sponsor of the ATP tournament at the UK's City of Nottingham Tennis Centre.

UK public broadcaster the BBC will deliver more than 100 hours of coverage of the Winter Olympics, along with interactive and broadband options and new technology.

Racing UK, the media rights company owned by some of the UK’s top racecourses, is joining forces with two of America’s premier horse racing companies to launch a new international television channel.

IEC in Sports will launch a regular magazine show focusing on the world of badminton.

FIFA and the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) have set up a joint working group to try to resolve differences about how media can cover the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

The International Cricket Council has called together representatives from its full member countries to discuss the issue of television rights in India.

Jackpotjoy.com, the UK’s top bingo and instant-win site, is sponsoring the 2006 Lakeside World Professional Darts Championship.

Seven and Ten networks have snatched the AFL broadcast rights from Nine, in the biggest broadcast rights deal in Australian sporting history.

A delegation of event security strategists, specifiers and managers from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games has confirmed its attendance at the second International Sports Security Summit.

Marius Schneider, head of information services at soccer’s world governing body FIFA, will deliver the closing address at Sport and Technology: The Conference 2006.

The UK's Channel 4 has appointed BBC new media executive Andrew Thompson as its head of sport.

ABC Sports is no longer part of the negotiations for the PGA Tour's next television contract, leaving only CBS and NBC to broadcast the majority of tournaments.

Two of the world’s leading experts in VIP protection will deliver unique insights into the ever-changing threats they must tackle at the second International Sports Security Summit.