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NSTAR has entered into a two-year marketing and community relations agreement with the Boston Celtics. NSTAR is the parent company of Boston Edison, Commonwealth Electric, Cambridge Electric and Commonwealth Gas.
Business

Media firms have offered the German Football Federation (DFB) 50 million marks for Internet rights alone for broadcasting soccer matches from mid-2000 until 2003, according to a report in Focus magazine.
Business

The International Fencing Federation (FIE) says it has scrapped plans to use new wire-less technology in epee events at the Sydney Olympics.
Business

Sponsorship value will double to $50 billion by 2010, or around 8.5% of global advertising spend, according to a recent survey.
Business

NTL, the $14.4bn cable and communications company, is lining up a #1bn bid for exclusive Premier League football rights, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.
Business

The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has entered into a marketing partnership with Subaru of America, Inc, whereby Subaru vehicles will be provided for use by LPGA staff and extend to programmes with designated LPGA Tour events and selected LPGA Tour players.
Business

A monitor appointed by a federal judge 12 days ago to take the helm of the International Boxing Federation has resigned and a replacement named.
Events

Both the BBC and its rival ? the commercial network ITV ? will broadcast live coverage of the England vs Germany clash at Euro 2000 this summer.
Events

The UK all-sport radio station Talk Sport has paid a six-figure sum to beat its BBC rival, 5 Live, to the rights to broadcast Mike Tyson's fight in Manchester this weekend.
Events

UEFA?s executive committee will stage its first meeting of the new century at UEFA's new headquarters, the House of European Football, in Nyon on February 11.
Business

iCraveTV.com Inc. this week broadcast two National Football League playoff games, the second-highest rated football program after the Superbowl, despite a landmark lawsuit launched against the upstart web company last week by US TV and movie heavyweights, including the NFL.
Events

The Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), a new, 24-hour, all sports cable and satellite digital television network directed at sports fans throughout Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, will debut on Tuesday, February 15 with the live, exclusive broadcast of Copa Libertadores, the region's most important football event.
Events

The 365 Corporation ? best known in the sport industry for its string of successful web sites ? has launched a new programming division.
Events

Fox Sports World Espanol has acquired the exclusive US broadcast rights to the 2000 Colombian soccer league season, including all playoff match-ups.
Events

Tickets.com, a leading one-stop online provider of sports, entertainment and travel tickets and event information, has been named as the Official Ticketing Services Supplier for the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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A series of women's World Cup ski races that were to serve as test events for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics have been cancelled due to a lack of snow, the International Ski Federation has said.
Events

THE RM286 million used to build the Sepang F1 Circuit which hosted the inaugural Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix in October has greatly benefited the Malaysian economy, according to a research study by Universiti Malaya.
Events

Tickets.com has signed two new ticketing contracts for the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Delphi Indy 200.