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Columbian television channels and programmers have unanimously rejected attempts by the country?s top-flight soccer league to charge fees for the media use of goal images.
Business

Spending on gambling is expected to rise by 21 percent in the five years between 1999 and 2004, according to a survey carried out by UK-based market research company Mintel.
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Satellite channel British Eurosport scored its highest ever TV ratings for its coverage of the World Athletics Championships from Edmonton, Canada.
Events

US broadcaster Fox Sports World Espanol will broadcast coverage of the Mexican Baseball League for the remainder of 2001 and the whole of the 2002 season.
Business

A Colombian soccer director is demanding sanctions against Argentina for missing last month's Copa America, which went ahead in the Andean nation at six days' notice after earlier being postponed until 2002.
Media

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said on Wednesday that media group Kirch should not have changed the schedule of its German first division highlights programme.
Business

Seattle Mariners will have their home games broadcast in Japanese live on the internet from today.
Business

Telewest Communications, the UK?s second largest cable company after NTL, said it would break even by 2004 after it announced better-than-expected results for the six months ending June 30.
Media

European sports website Sports.com has expanded its relationship with Oddset, the online sports betting arm of Deutsche Lotto and Toto Block.
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Business

ESPN has sold out of its sponsorship packages for the seventh annual X Games to be held in mid-August in Philadelphia.
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Events

New Zealand pay television operator Sky Network Television Ltd has named private broadcaster TV3 as Sky's free-to-air broadcast partner for rugby union and cricket for the 2001/02 season.
Business

NTL, the UK?s largest cable operator which will broadcast Premiership pay-per-view soccer next season, reported a 26 percent increase in digital television customers for the second quarter ending June 30.
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Business

UK terrestrial broadcaster the BBC has told sportbusiness.com that it still holds a strong hand in the upcoming fight for the domestic TV rights to the British Open Golf Championship.
Business

IG Index, the London-based company which offers spread betting on sport and financial markets, reported a 53 percent increase in pre-tax profit to #15.4m ($22m) for the year ending May 31, about #1m ($1.6m) more than analysts? expectations.
Events

Go Racing, the media consortium run by UK broadcasters Channel 4 and BSkyB and track owner Arena Leisure, has hired its first marketing director just a few weeks after it agreed a #387m ($545m) ten-year multimedia racing rights deal with the British Horseracing Board and the Racecourse Association.
Media

Pay-TV sports network PSN, which operates across Latin America, was the highest ranked cable channel for sports in Argentina during June.
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Viewing figures for the NBA play-offs are continuing to slide with the four games broadcast over the Memorial Day weekend averaging only a 6.3 television rating, down 16 per cent on the previous year.
Business

Racetrack owner Arena Leisure has secured funding for the Go Racing consortium after raising #85.6m ($121.1m) through a placing and open offer of 90 million shares in the company at 95p.