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Promoters of dog racing in the UK have given the British Greyhound Racing Board (BGRB) a mandate to handle the sale of the intellectual property rights, including photo, betting and media rights, in return for two extra seats on the board.
Business

Shares in English Premier League soccer club Manchester United have continued to rise ? along with concerns among supporters ? as the mystery deepens over who could be behind the purchase of a 6.7 percent stake.
Events

US television executives have said that Tiger Woods' popularity was not a significant factor in their new deals with the PGA Tour.
Business

Sir Rodney Walker, chairman of the UK Rugby Football League confirmed to sportbusiness.com that last year?s World Cup did not make anywhere near the #4m ($5.7m) profit he had anticipated. But he denied reports that the tournament made a loss of #500,000 ($712,000).
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ITV won seven out of the fourteen main awards up for grabs at the RTS Television Sports Awards 2000 held last night. The UK terrestrial broadcaster narrowly beat main rival BBC which scooped six of the categories, although the latter?s Olympic programming received the major plaudits of the evening.
Business

Bill Wilson, chairman and chief executive of Teamtalk, the independent online sports content provider, has told sportbusiness.com that his company will not move out of the red until 2003.
Events

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has agreed a three-year extension to its current television contracts with terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 and pay-TV channel Sky Sports.
Events

The International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) will be only marginally affected by the financial collapse of the sports agency ISL, spokesman Giorgio Reineri said on Friday.
Media

BBC Sport unveiled its plans for interactive coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships starting this June.
Events

The battle to gain media coverage of horseracing events in the UK moved closer to being resolved today after the Go Racing consortium, which is made up of BSkyB, Channel 4 and Arena Leisure, signed up the remaining racecourses it needed to finalise its horseracing media rights deal.
Business

The head of the Australian Rugby Union has rejected claims by his English counterpart that the British Lions were not getting a big enough slice of revenue from their upcoming tour of Australia.
Business

Arena Leisure said it expects its shares to start trading again on May 8, when it will also issue a detailed statement, following the news that the Go Racing consortium it is heavily involved in with BSkyB and Channel 4 has won the media rights to horse racing at racecourses that account for more than 70% of off-track betting revenues in the UK.
Business

Sports.com, the website which claims to be Europe?s biggest sports news and data site, has bought the UK's Daily Star?s website Megastar.co.uk from Lord Hollick?s United Business News for about #100,000 ($144,000).
Business

Television producer and five-times Emmy Award winner Charlie Stark is to become the executive producer of the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) where he will focus on developing the broadcast profiles of drivers in the FedEx Championship Series.
Media

French and German media giants Vivendi Universal and Bertelsmann are understood to have agreed a deal with Swiss marketing company ISL whereby they jointly acquire the financially crippled firm for the nominal sum of one Swiss franc.
Business

Major broadcasters and sponsors are only just recognising the huge value in new generation sports, according to freesports agency Chilli.
Business

F2 Broadcast Network has signed an endorsement deal with PGA Tour member Brian Gay.
Events

Asian internet sports portal, Sportalasia, has selected Digital Island to provide content delivery and streaming media services to sports fans globally.