Media
ASCENT ISSUES DEADLINE ON SALE OF TEAMS, CENTER
Ascent Entertainment Group Inc. said late Monday that Liberty Media Group ended its merger agreement with Ascent, as the deal was conditional on the sale of Ascent's sports-related business, which has not yet gotten Denver City Council approval.
MILLER LITE SPONSORS SUPERBOWL.COM
The NFL has launched its official Super Bowl site, Superbowl.com, with Miller Lite as its presenting sponsor.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX SIGNS INTERNET PARTNER
Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox and Internet venture Ignite Sports Media have agreed a multi-year Internet media rights licensing contract.
HICKS BUYS INTO LATIN AMERICAN PAY-TV
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc has formed a strategic alliance with Spain's Telefonica S.A. in a deal worth about $4billion which should allow Hicks, Muse to further expand its cable television assets in Latin America.
NTL DEAL APPROVED BY UNITED SHAREHOLDERS
Shareholders in English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United have approved its money-spinning partnership with cable company NTL.
MSNBCSPORTS.COM TO ACCESS OLYMPIC COVERAGE
NBC Quokka Ventures and MSNBC.com, America's number one news site, have signed a strategic partnership to distribute nbcolympics.com content to MSNBC.com users during the Olympic Games.
BBC AND ITV TO SHARE BIG EURO GAME COVERAGE
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.
DOT-COMS PAY UP FOR ADBOWL
Advertisers of Super Bowl television coverage this year will pay, on average, more than $2 million for 30 seconds of time before an audience that Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network predicts will exceed 120 million, reports The Wall Street Journal.
ARENA LEISURE BUYS FOLKESTONE COURSE FOR #3M
Arena Leisure, which owns Lingfield, Britain's busiest racecourse, has agreed to buy the course at Folkestone in Kent for #3.25m.
MANCHESTER PROJECTS VIBRANT IMAGE FOR COMMONWEALTH GAMES
Rapidly shedding its image as a grey, northern industrial city, Manchester will project a youthful, vibrant image at the first Commonwealth Games of the new millennium.
NASCAR PUTS STAMP ON MUSIC EVENTS
Nascar is to stage 15-25 branded concerts from May-August next year in partnership with CBS and TNN, in a move to attract a younger and more geographically diverse audience.
AIR FRANCE STRIKE ENDS AS WORLD CUP BEGINS
Air France signed a surprise pay deal with its striking pilots Wednesday, ending a devastating 10-day dispute at the airline just hours before the start of the World Cup soccer tournament.
OBLIVION TO PRODUCE IRISH RACING COVERAGE
Irish state broadcaster RTE has signed independent production company Oblivion Television to produce all Irish horse racing coverage for the next six months.
NEWS LAUNCHES $25BN FILM, SPORT SATELLITE
THE News Corporation Ltd has cemented its position as the nation's biggest listed company after unveiling a $25 billion-plus spin-off of its American motion picture, television and sports divisions.
FRANCE-BRAZIL SETS NEW FRENCH TV AUDIENCE RECORD
Sunday night's World Cup final between France and Brazil set a new television audience record in host country France with an average of 23.626 million people watching, a spokesman for audience measurement body Mediametrie said on Monday.
GERMAN PREMIERE BUYS ENGLISH SOCCER TV RIGHTS
German pay-tv broadcaster Premiere has acquired three-year broadcast rights for the English Premier League. Premiere will screen three live matches a week.Reuters
NBC OLYMPIC CHIEF MOVES TO NBC TV PRESIDENCY
Twenty-three-year NBC veteran Randy Falco is taking over as president of the NBC TV Network this fall, replacing Neil Braun, who announced his resignation and plans to join the bidding for Polygram Filmed Entertainment.
CHISHOLM BECOMES A SPUR
Sam Chisholm the former head of satellite broadcaster BSkyB, has become a non-executive director of London soccer club Tottenham Hotspur.