Events

Sportvision, the sports and entertainment broadcast technology provider, has hired Kellie McKeown as vice president of product management.

Australian Football League team the Brisbane Lions have announced a A$2.2million profit in its latest financial results.

Major League Baseball’s online efforts continue to reap rewards, with the company reporting a big leap in subscribers for 2003.

Cadbury Schweppes has signed up as naming rights sponsor for the Australian PGA Championship in a new five-year deal.

The Australian Football League's chief executive Andrew Demetriou has announced a revised organisational structure for the league's executive team.

Organisers of the sports TV industry’s leading exhibition – Sportel – have confirmed it will venture into the Middle East for the first time after it confirmed the marketplace would take place in Dubai next March.

Premiere, the former Kirch pay-television platform, is showing good signs of recovery under the ownership of the UK-based equity group Permira. Few expected the company to turn around its longstanding lacklustre performance so quickly and to report healthy half-year results.

Despite rumours that it was set to pull its backing, Parker Pen has renewed its sponsorship deal with European Rugby Cup Limited for rugby union's European Challenge Cup tournament.

The host cities for two of athletics' most prestigiuous events have been decided with Moscow set to stage the 2006 World Indoor Championships and Fukuoka in Japan hosting the World Cross-Country Championships in the same year.

Sponsorship and events consultancy Trimedia has been appointed by online betting exchange Betdaq to develop a range of integrated sports event and marketing solutions for next year.

French pay-TV network Sport+ has won a broadcast rights deal with European Rugby Cup Limited for live coverage of this season's Heineken Cup.

Germany’s Olympic Committee has appointed Peter Zuehlsdorff as the new head of Leipzig’s 2012 Olympic bid after the previous chief stepped down over allegations he had worked for the former East German Stasi secret police.

Fiji has won the bidding race to host the World Netball Championships in 2007.

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The LPGA commissioner says the women‘s game has never looked better with TV ratings and attendances up from 2002.

The sports law group of Mishcon de Reya has been named as the legal partner to the West Indies Cricket Board in their signing of the host agreement to stage the 2007 Cricket World Cup.