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Italian terrestrial TV channel LA7 has acquired the exclusive rights to broadcast the Superbike World Championship in Italy for the next three years.
Business

Formal details of the bids by the nine cities hoping to stage the 2012 Olympic Games have started arriving at the IOC’s offices, ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
Events

Dubai-based international airline Emirates has appointed German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer as its global ambassador for sport and social activities.
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The Chick-fil-A Charity Championship in Atlanta has become the latest LPGA Tour tournament to increase its prize money for 2004, jumping $250,000 to $1.6million.
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Sportswear giant adidas is looking to further enhance its association with golf, after adidas Golf was chosen as the ‘preferred apparel supplier’ to the British Open Golf Championships.
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Coverage of the World Rally Championship (WRC) in the UK is to move onto the biggest free-to-air commercial network after TV and commercial rights holder ISC struck a landmark deal.
Business

US cable network The Tennis Channel has reached a three-year rights deal with the WTA Tour.
Events

Pan-European sports channel Eurosport has appointed a new UK sales director.
Business

Sports marketing firm Navigator has been sold in a deal worth up to £5m ($9m/EUR7.2m).
Business

Pan-regional Asian sports broadcaster ESPN STAR Sports (ESS) has successfully concluded an exclusive multi-year rights agreement with the English Football Association.
Events

Paris Olympic bid officials may have fallen foul of IOC regulations over comments made about rival bidding city London.
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Bosses at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium have cheekily suggested to the All England Club that it could host future Wimbledon tennis championships if its new roof comes a cropper.
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The NFL has struck a TV rights deal for live coverage of next month's Super Bowl with Chinese national broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).
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FIFA’s archive film and TV footage is now available and accessible for business online.
Business

Interpublic has finally sold its four UK motorsport circuits for an undisclosed sum.
Events

Malaysia is to post a bid to host the 2010 Asian Games.
Business

The FIFA delegation assessing the African countries bidding to host the 2010 World Cup will travel to Libya later this week before concluding its travels with a trip to Egypt.
Events

The Ladies European Golf Tour (LET) has unveiled a new ten year renewal agreement with sports management firm Parallel Media Group.