Events
SETANTA.COM SIGNS $1.45M MOBILE CONTENT DEAL
Setanta.com, the Irish sports content provider, has signed two contracts worth #1million ($1.45m) with mobile phone companies in Norway.
PLANS FOR REBEL SNOOKER TOUR SCRAPPED
The Sportsmasters Network has announced that they are no longer intending to proceed with their plans for a breakaway world tour later this year.
GILLETTE SIGNS NEW DEAL WITH EUROSPORT
Eurosport has signed a new two-year deal with Gillette for an extensive package of football broadcast sponsorship on the pan-European channel.
SPORTS FACE CHAOS OVER DISEASE SCARE
A number of leading UK sports events could be axed amid fears over the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
INDIAN CRICKET SPONSOR SEEKS REPLACEMENT
ITC Ltd , India's largest cigarette maker, has invited proposals to take over its sponsorship of the nation's cricket team following a government move to discourage tobacco advertising.
CARLTON AND UNITED BREWERIES NEW AFL SPONSOR
The Australian Football League has confirmed that Carlton & United Breweries would replace Coca-Cola as the AFL's naming rights sponsor from this year in a four-year deal, as reported by sportbusiness.com last week.
ARIZONA CARDINALS TO GET NEW STADIUM
The Arizona Cardinals, the only National Football League franchise to play permanently in a college stadium, learned on Tuesday that the team will not have to move very far for its new $335 million facility.
SEVEN BILLION TUNE INTO EURO 2000
The EURO 2000 football championships were watched by a cumulative audience of seven billion people, a new survey reveals.
FORMULA ONE STAYS ON TRACK, SAYS REPORT
A recent global TV report on Formula One shows the motorsport maintaining its strong position as a dominant sport worldwide.
LEWIS SIGNS $1.6m DEAL WITH BBC
Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis is today signing a $1.6m deal with the BBC ? a key victory for the broadcaster as it looks to rebuild its sports portfolio.
SEVEN NETWORK LIMITED NOT TO MATCH CONSORTIUM OFFER ON AFL TV RIGHTS.
Seven Network Limited has advised the Australian Football League that it would not accept its offer to match the News Limited led consortium bid for broadcast television rights for seasons 2002-2006.
YLE GET FINNISH RIGHTS TO SOCCER WORLD CUP
Prisma the sports rights agency have sold the rights to the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament to YLE, the Finnish state broadcaster.
PVI PRODUCE BRANDED FIRST-DOWN LINE FOR SUPERBOWL
Virtual imaging firm Princeton Video Image, Inc. (PVI) is to produce a branded first-down line for the first time in the international live television feeds of Super Bowl XXXV.
CHINA NETCOM SPONSORS BEIJING OLYMPIC BID COMMITTEE
State owned telecommunications company China Netcom has been named the official telecom sponsor of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee.
ATHENS TO BUILD FOUR OLYMPIC PRESS VILLAGES
Greece will build four press villages to accommodate journalists covering the Athens 2004 Olympics, organisers said on Tuesday.
NRL WINS $400MILLION TV DEAL
The Australian National Rugby League (NRL) has signed a six-year deal worth $400million (US$216 million) with Australia's biggest pay television company Foxtel.
EIGHT COUNTRIES FORM BREAKAWAY EUROPEAN BODY
Eight countries - including France, Spain and Britain - are forming a breakaway European governing body for triathlon, the sport which made its Olympic debut at the Sydney Games.
ATHLETICS CHAMPIONSHIP LIGHTS UP
Battery firm Energizer has signed a deal to become an international partner of the European Athletic Association Programme of Championship events 2000-2003.