Events

UEFA has signed a major marketing deal with Japanese advertising giant Dentsu.

The venue for the 2005 World Athletics Championship will be unveiled on 14 April by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) in Nairobi.

This summer's FIFA World Cup tournament could be the catalyst for a revival in the fortunes of the broadcast industry with estimates suggesting a surge in television advertising revenues for May and June.

TV rights to the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups have been moved to KirchSport after KirchMedia filed for insolvency this morning.

A row is brewing within Scottish soccer amid claims the two biggest clubs in the Scottish Premier League - Celtic and Rangers - could be about to scupper plans the League had to set up its own TV channel.

The Professional Darts Corporation's first-ever live televised event in the United States will be broadcast later this year via Sky Sports.

Premiership soccer club Leicester City has signed a stadium naming rights deal with snack food giant Walkers, which will see the new arena called The Walkers Bowl.

Shares in a number of lower league English soccer clubs have slumped in the wake of ITV Digital's decision to call in the administrators.

The National Football League (NFL) releases its schedule for the upcoming season today having failed to agree on more flexible programming for its flagship Monday Night Football show.

MLB International and its business partners in Japan will highlight MLB's Japanese-born players on television and with promotional activities in Japan to mark the opening week of the 2002 season.

Nasdaq-listed virtual imaging company Princeton Video Image has closed its acquisition of the assets of the Israel-based SciDel Technologies.

The Football League and the clubs it represents seem to believe they have a God given right to TV revenues, says Joe Cogan, executive editor of internet sports content publisher Sportev.

Bundesliga players are overpaid and salaries will have to fall by up to a fifth, Bayer Leverkusen manager Reiner Calmund has said.

Cablevision Systems Corp has made its own pitch to solve a six-month dispute over the fees being asked to carry Yankees baseball games, but fans would have to pay a premium price set by the cable network that is controlled by the team's owners.

US internet and cable TV company Oxygen Media, which was set up in 1998 to target the women's market, is to cut 20 jobs and reduce its sports programming.

Building society Nationwide has renewed its sponsorship with the English Football Association - signing up to become the latest member of the FA's elite new partner programme.