Media

Local media reports say Toronto's SkyDome Corp. faces a "significant cash shortage."

The future of digital television in Italy is shaping up into a scrap over soccer as Telecom Italia strives to hammer out a deal by Friday and global media baron Rupert Murdoch considers whether to join in.

The Football League, which represents clubs outside the elite Premier league, plans to launch English soccer's first pay-per-view television trial after Christmas.

UEFA's rigid opposition to a proposed breakaway European Super League, will get it nowhere, AC Milan's managing director Adriano Galliani said on Tuesday.

AC Milan, the soccer club controlled by Italian media magnate Silvio Berlusconi, should be listed on the bourse by the end of 2000, the club's vice president Adriano Galliani said on Tuesday.

ABC's Monday Night Football continued to dominate ratings this week but Baseball and Clinton's Presidential peccadilloes made for unspectacular figures, with the lowest rated Dallas game ever.

Del Monte has signed a #2m sponsorship deal with the well-known Italian football team Lazio.

French pay television company Canal Plus is in talks with four more Italian football clubs following its recent broadcasting rights accord with the country's four main teams, a company official has said.

Europe's leading national soccer coaches have said a Super League would act against the interests of international football.

The Melbourne Cricket Club could lose the right to run the world famous Melbourne Cricket Ground under the State Government's radical plan to "professionalise" the ground's management by removing sports clubs and politicians.

Media company Carlton Communications has made further approaches to buy an English Premier League soccer club, the Times said on Monday.

German media magnate Leo Kirch has acquired the televison rights for any future fights by former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson outside the United States, Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.

In a move to enhance its NFL telecasts, ESPN will, this Sunday, premiere a new technology that displays a virtual yellow line painted across the football field at the first-down marker.

While US broadcasters are obliged to air at least three hours of educational children's programming each week, the FCC has still not ruled on the sensitive issue of preempting Saturday morning educational fare for sports.

China is considering rival bids by three of its largest cities - Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou - to host the 2008 Olympic Games, state media said on Monday.

Austrian businessman Frank Stronach wants to invest millions to revamp Austrian soccer and create an elite team for the proposed European Super League, a newspaper said on Sunday.