Media

USA Networks Inc. and the NBA have announced a broad multi-year alliance under which USA Networks will deliver media and electronic-commerce services for the sports league.

It may have only taken four minutes, but the financial fall-out of Mike Tyson?s latest return to the ring proved a very profitable one, according to reports.

UK satellite broadcasters BSkyB have been given the green light to carry on buying stakes in English Premier League clubs after League bosses said there was no problem in what it was doing.

NBC Quokka Ventures, has announced that Randy Falco, the president of NBC Television Network and chief operating officer of NBC's Olympic broadcast group, has joined its board of directors.

European competition authorities are investigating pay television group BSkyB Plc's #13.8m investment in Leeds Sporting Plc, according to a report in the UK?s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

The National Basketball Association is launching its own 24-hour TV network - NBA.com TV - in a move that could help it bypass traditional television network partners, the Wall Street Journal has reported in Friday's online edition.

NBC Sports and Triple Crown Productions (TCP) have agreed to a multi-year contract, giving the network the exclusive American broadcast rights to thoroughbred horse racing's Visa Triple Crown - the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. The agreement goes into effect in 2001 and continues for five years through 2005.

Past and present National Football League quarterbacks are looking to score big with an investment in a company that produces television-style programming for the Internet.

The joint chief executive of advertising giants Saatchi & Saatchi ? Adam Crozier - has been named the new chief executive of the English Football Association.

The Rugby World Cup third-place playoff between South Africa and New Zealand will be shown live on terrestial television in Wales, but nowhere else in Britain.

NASCAR has reached television deals with NBC, Turner Sports and Fox television networks beginning in the 2001 season.

A widescale review of the Bosman ruling has moved a step closer after it was revealed that European sports ministers are united in their opposition to it and will attempt to reform the ruling over the coming months because of its damaging impact on football.

Bundesliga director Wilfried Straub has described reports that the broadcast rights to the Bundesliga will be sold exclusively to pay TV next season as "premature".

The beleaguered organisers of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games have suffered a second blow in two days when the official broadcaster suspended its advertising contract.

Former UK Sports Minister Tony Banks will give evidence to an inquiry into the fiasco surrounding the new #475million national stadium at Wembley.

The Canadian government has denied it was about to announce a long-awaited aid package to help the country's six National Hockey League clubs compete more effectively with their US counterparts.