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British Sky broadcasting, the News Corp-owned UK pay TV company, will be free to broadcast one of its sports channels on spare digital bandwidth allocated to Channel 5.

European soccer champions Real Madrid have bolstered their commercial operation with the appointment of UK based merchandising consultants Zone signed Deloitte & Touche.

Carmen Policy who resigned last week after seven years as president of the 49ers, has announced that he and billionaire banker Al Lerner are applying to buy the Cleveland expansion team that begins play in 1999.

A $411 million plan to build a new home for the Padres baseball team and renovate downtown San Diego took a step closer to reality Tuesday when the city council voted to place the issue on the November ballot.

News Corp. took the first formal step toward the public offering of stock in its and TV businesses including Fox Sports when it filed a prospectus for Fox Entertainment Group.

The average price of middle-range Games tickets is expected to hit about AUS$100 in the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games ticketing package, to be released in Sydney today.

ABC's "Monday Night Football" is off to what's apparently its worst ratings start ever - despite hype surrounding the new early start time.

The consortium that holds exclusive broadcasting rights to the 2002 and 2006 World Cup soccer tournaments will allow the events to be shown on non-subscription television stations, according to an official of consortium member ISL.

Korean car maker Daewoo have renewed their contract with the British Show Jumping Association at the Horse of the Year Show for the fourth year running.

Franz Beckenbauer has been elected vice-president of the German Soccer Federation (DFB) and has immediately pressed for reforms.

Britain's commercial television companies have said they are to launch the country's sixth terrestrial television channel, ITV2, on December 7 with the declared aim of capturing younger viewers.

British motor racing giant Formula One said it rejected allegations made by a BBC-TV documentary that it made misleading statements regarding the status of a European Commission competition investigation.

Malaysia has confirmed it will be bidding to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

Asia's financial crisis has cost the Asian Games $12 million in lost marketing revenue, the region's Olympic chief has said.

A German bank has offered to purchase all of motor racing tycoon Bernie Ecclestone's planned bond issue provided conditions including a reduction in the deal's size are met, bankers in London has said.

The extent of football?s booming popularity among Britains armchair fans is confirmed by the release of television ratings that show 29 of the top 30 sporting events in 1998 were football matches.