Media

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.

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.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has issued a stiff warning to top European clubs tempted to join a breakaway league.

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

MVP.com board members John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, joined CEO John Costello in launching MVP.com, the online destination for high-quality sports, fitness, and outdoor gear and apparel.

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

Princeton Video Image (PVI) has announced it will insert virtual advertisements for several sponsors in the international feed of NFL Super Bowl XXXIV on January 30 from the Atlanta Georgia Dome.

AltaVista Company, the media and commerce network and FOXSports.com have agreed that FOXSports.com will be the exclusive content provider for the AltaVista Live! Sports Channel.

British soccer fans may have a case to block media giants muscling into their clubs as they fight to bring the game back to its grass roots, a legal consultant told a conference on Thursday.

Concerned about the commercialisation of soccer, the government launched "Supporters Direct" on Thursday to provide legal and financial advice and grants to set up organisations to campaign for a greater say in clubs.

The lottery grant of #120m which bought Wembley may have to be paid back in full if the project is not given the go-ahead by planners in March.

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.

NBA Commissioner David Stern has launched a major reorganisation of NBA Entertainment and NBA Properties, through which the operations of the two companies will be combined under the leadership of NBA Entertainment President Adam Silver.

The Extreme Sports Channel, a joint venture between X-Dream International and UPC, Europe?s largest cable operator, has begun an advertising campaign on ski slopes across some of the most popular resorts in Austria.

UK Athletics has signed a major new sponsorship package with the leading European sports drink, Isotar.

Northern Light Technology, a leading Internet search engine, and the Indy Racing League have agreed that Northern Light will be the series sponsor of the Indy Racing League.