Events
Club World Championship under spotlight
World soccer's governing body FIFA has lined up a series of key committee meetings to be staged at its Zurich headquarters – among them a planning meeting for the 2003 Club World Championship.
Sport stirs up shaken ITV Digital
UK digital terrestrial platform ITV Digital is “very pleased” with the addition of 138,000 subscribers to its ITV Sport channel and is hopeful the channel’s $28million (B
ICC search for first CFO
Cricket’s world governing body the International Cricket Council (ICC) has hired a recruitment agency to find its first chief financial officer in a bid to improve its business acumen.
Dover Downs profits in ‘challenging’ quarter
US motorsports track operators Dover Downs Entertainment has reported a $6million (B
WPP can’t withdraw Tempus bid, says ruling
The UK Takeover Panel has ruled against advertising giant WPP Group’s plea to withdraw the group's £436million ($621m/B
NBC races to new four-year Breeders’ Cup deal
NBC has signed a four-year extension to its deal to broadcast US horse racing’s premier event, the Breeders’ Cup.
NBC to air Games in Spanish
US broadcaster NBC is aiming to broadcast some events at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games on Spanish-language TV stations owned by its recent acquisition Telemundo.
Dupe
US motorsports track operators Dover Downs Entertainment has reported a $6million(B
Aussie netball attacks ABC
Australian netball officials have criticised the ABC for cancelling its live television coverage of the second netball Test between Australia and New Zealand with less than four minutes left in the match.
NASCAR ratings dwarf F1 in the USA
The NASCAR Winston Cup race from Talladega, Alabama, recorded its highest ever TV ratings with a 4.4 and a ten viewer rating share.
French Open on Channel Seven
The on-court success of tennis star Lleyton Hewitt has prompted Australia's free-to-air Seven Network to add the French Open, a Nine Network regular, to its growing stable of international events.
European races drive CART revs
Higher sanction fees received from its two European races has enabled Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) to post a seven percent increase in 3Q revenues compared to the same period last year.
Clubs: ‘Get set for TV take-off’
Sport clubs should cash in on the new range of broadcast opportunities to greatly enhance revenue streams, says a new report published by SportBusiness Group.
Boxing beefs up revenues
Showtime Event Television (SET) has reported an 18 percent pay-per-view revenue surge in 3Q to $83.9m (B
Churchill Downs confident of stable demand
Nasdaq-listed racecourse owner Churchill Downs Incorporated (CDI) has reported lower than expected 3Q revenues due to the cancellation of meetings following the September 11 attacks.
NFL goes interactive on Sky
The UK’s Sky Sports television channel is to enhance its coverage of the NFL by providing viewers of its digital service with access to on-screen statistics.
Kirch sign World Cup web cops
Sports Marketing Surveys will become World Cup soccer web-police after clinching a monitoring deal with broadcast rights holder KirchMedia.
BHB offers bookie discount
The British Horseracing Board has proposed a scheme that would cut the cost of getting live pictures and data on UK racing into betting shops from next May.