Media

Cardiff?s Millennium Stadium is set to be confirmed as the host for a number of key soccer games while Wembley Stadium is demolished and rebuilt.

Australia has said it was caught in the cross-fire of a row over foreign television access to news events rather than sporting competitions at the Sydney Olympic Games but would work towards a settlement. For the full story see the FEATURES section of SportBusiness.com.

Premierwin.com and UK commercial radio station talkSPORT have teamed up in a radio and internet campaign to drive a multi-million pound Fantasy Football League ? which it claims to be the most valuable ever run on the web.

The English Football Association?s commercial director, Phillip Carling, has quit his job to take up a role at global sports marketing giant Octagon.

Pakistan cricketers, dogged by allegations of corruption, will have an undercover agent assigned to spy on them during home and away tours, according to local media reports.

UK sports advertising firm Metrosport has been appointed to handle advertising and sponsorship rights for the current UK tour of the Indian national soccer team.

The Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia are battling it out to host Rally Australia, which has been held in Western Australia for the last 12 years.

AT&T Cable Services, ESPN and KMAS/Telemundo are partnering to cablecast ESPN's Major League Baseball Spanish-language simulcasts on Telemundo's local affiliate KMAS for seven consecutive Sunday evenings this summer.

UK racecourses not among the `Super 12? tracks have blasted claims they were responsible for the breakdown of a Channel 4-led consortium aiming to snap up terrestrial television rights.

Ernst & Young has entered into a three year sponsorship agreement with the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) as the Official Professional Services Firm.

Australia?s Seven Network has unveiled a host of added-value enhancements to its coverage of this summer?s Olympic Games.

The Extreme Group and United Pan-Europe Communications (UPC), the joint venture partners in the Extreme Sports Channel, have signed a distribution agreement with Germany's third-largest independent cable network operator PrimaCom AG.

The BBC has secured exclusive live television rights for Liverpool?s UEFA Cup campaign next season.

Orad Hi-Tec Systems has signed an agreement to acquire France?s Getris S.A.

British pay-TV company ONdigital said on Friday it has won a three-year #315 million ($476.2 million) contract to show English Football League and Worthington Cup soccer matches.

SportsTALK.com, a US provider of in-depth, inside sports news, has formed a strategic partnership with the multimedia entertainment and marketing company College Broadcast.