Events

Up to 40 percent of football fans can name at least one of the fifteen sponsors of the FIFA World Cup, according to a survey carried out by Sports.com, the internet and mobile data provider of sports content, and market research group Netpoll.

India's state-owned Doordarshan television network has won exclusive rights to broadcast within the country the hockey World Cup starting in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday with a bid exceeding $1m.

A major legal wrangle over the patent for the virtual 'first down line' used in television coverage of US football has been settled.

Dorna and Tissot have signed an agreement which extends the Swiss watch manufacturer's current role as official timekeeper for the MotoGP World Championships until the end of the 2005 season.

Octagon Motorsports has signed a deal with Eurosport, securing the rights to the Endurance FIM World Championship until 2006.

UK broadcaster ITV has relaunched its Formula One website as it prepares for the start of the new season.

Caribbean-based online gambling company Betracer.com and technology firm World Gaming has announced that it is to offer visitors the opportunity to bet on a string of motor sport events including Formula One and NASCAR.

Rome has made a formal bid to host the World Athletics Championships in 2005, the third-biggest sporting event in the world, Italy's Athletics Federation FIDAL has confirmed.

Sunday’s NASCAR Winston Cup Series Daytona 500 earned a 10.9 rating/26 share for NBC’s inaugural broadcast of the 'Great American Race', becoming the highest-rated and most-viewed broadcast in NASCAR history.

Litigation and sports law expert Brian Moore has joined solicitors Memery Crystal as a partner.

Gobarkingmad, the interactive greyhound racing business run by Gaming Insight, is nearing completion of tests before it launches the world's first 24 hour interactive racing channel.

Attheraces, the media consortium which last year won the rights to broadcast horseracing at 49 of the 59 British racecourses, has signed a deal with betting companies Ladbrokes, Sportech and Surrey Sports.

Sportsio, the digital media management company, and Fox Sports International have agreed to a five-year broadcast partnership that will provide a minimum of 25 United Soccer League (USL) matches for broadacst on Fox Sports World.

SportBusinessTV's first edition of In Focus spotlights the different viewpoints of Marc Jorg, Controller of Sports for the public service broadcast members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) with those of Dr. Alexander Liegl, Managing Director of Sports Rights, Kirch Media

One of the world's most powerful media moguls, Rupert Murdoch, has delivered a damning blow to the sports rights industry by saying prices have "got beyond an economic level".

Nascar track operator Speedway Motorsports has reported record revenues for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001.