Events

The Millennium Stadium in Cardiff has brought the responsibility for promotions and events of the 74,500 seater, multi-facility venue in-house.

Bookmaker Ladbrokes has become the first ever programme sponsor of digital channel Attheraces live racing coverage.

The new series of international sailing events based in and around Qatar have been labelled as "thinly disguised copies" of an existing concept in an angry retort to the series' launch last week.

The IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships, staged in the UK earlier this year, resulted in a $6.18m (EUR5.31m) financial boost to the local economy, according to figures released today by UK Sport, the organisation responsible for co-ordinating major events in the UK.

Be sure you don't miss out on the key events, meetings and decisions due over the next seven days, in sportbusiness.com's regular, if a little later than normal, look at the Week Ahead.

In Demand Networks has signed a multi-year deal with the NBA to transmit both the high-definition and standard-definition signals of NBA TV to carriers of the league's network.

The Women's World Cup soccer final between Germany and Sweden set TV ratings records in both countries.

UK agency the GEM Group has won the account handling contract for energy supplier BG Group's yacht sponsorship in the fourth Global Challenge race.

TWI, the TV subsidiary of sports marketing giant IMG, has agreed a five-year deal with UK pay-TV network Sky Sports to produce the coverage of West Indies' international cricket.

Sepp Blatter will remain FIFA president until 2007 after a meeting of the soccer governing body's Extraordinary Congress agreed to extend his term by an extra year.

UK pay-TV platform BSkyB has dramatically sealed an exclusive TV deal for the European Rugby Cup properties, including the Heineken Cup, after tabling a last minute bid for the rights package, sportbusiness.com can reveal.

A scheduling feud between the World Rally Championships and UK commercial broadcaster Channel 4 looks set to spill over into the courts.

Interactive sports marketing firm Sportvision has renewed an enhanced agreement with US broadcaster Fox Sports.

Rugby league in the UK is on a high with the Tetley's Super League Grand Final a sell-out for the first time in the event's history.

Budweiser has signed a new sponsorship deal with English Premier League club Everton.

Octagon has announced the opening of a new office in Portugal, which will operate as part of its Spanish operations, Octagon Esedos.