Events

Organisers of last month’s SportelMonaco have hailed the event a ‘great success’.

Interactive sports broadcast firm Sportvision has promoted industry veteran Marv White as its new chief technology officer.

UK commercial free-to-air broadcaster ITV has claimed that its line-up of sports content over the last weekend pulled in over 26 million viewers to the network.

UK racecourse operator Arena Leisure Plc has entered into a new contract with the Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service (BAGS) to provide live broadcast of racing from its racecourses into licensed betting offices.

Video games publisher Activision has signed a sponsorship deal with the 2003 Gravity Games to tie-in with the latest edition of its hugely popular Tony Hawks skating titles.

Pan-regional broadcaster Viasat Sport has renewed its TV rights deal for coverage of the US PGA Tour.

Mediametrie's television research subsidiary EurodataTV has entered into a strategic alliance with TVTracker.com to provide ratings information on US programming.

UK pay-TV network Sky Sports has acquired the exclusive live rights to this Sunday's soccer game between Brazil and Jamaica - to be played at the Walkers Bowl stadium in Leicester.

Africa soccer chiefs say they will not back any one bid in the running for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

The Commonwealth Games evaluation commission for the 2010 event has given glowing praise to both cities bidding to host the Games.

Sports marketing has a major new player after rights agency Global Sportnet and communications giant Mindshare joined forces to increase their presence within the sector through the formation of a new company.

BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) has been signed a $1million deal to transmit UK broadcaster ITV Sport's coverage of the 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia.

Reinforcing its status as one of the richest events on the Asian golf circuit, the Carlsberg Malaysian Open will offer a record $1.21m (EUR1.02m) total prize pot next year.

Infront Sports & Media has signed an exclusive broadcast agency deal with Leading Independent Media (LiM)for a package of FIFA rights – including the 2006 World Cup – for the Sub Saharan Africa region.

A US investment bank has signed a title sponsor deal of the PGA Tour’s Phoenix Open.

Pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport has renewed its TV rights agreement with the WTA Tour, extending the network's coverage of women's tennis through to the end of 2007.