Media

A landmark London court ruling expected on Wednesday is set to break pay television giant British Sky Broadcasting's (BSkyB) stranglehold on coverage of English Premier League soccer, according to London's the Independent on Sunday newspaper.

Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram has been suspended from international duty - along with two other players - as the probe continues into allegations of match-fixing and betting.

Sky Digital has struck a deal with British Eurosport to include the sports channel on its service.

Ascent Entertainment Group has selected The Sturm Group, a Denver-based private investment firm owned by Donald L. Sturm, to proceed to the second round live auction of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, the Colorado Avalanche hockey team and the Pepsi Center.

Worldwide Entertainment & Sports Corp., the US-based management, marketing and commercial endorsement agency, have formed an Internet subsidiary, Sportcut.com, Inc. and put in place a senior management team to lead the business.

The Restrictive Practices Court in London is to make a landmark court ruling today on the way in which television rights to English Premier League games are sold.

The International Olympic Committee has awarded its advertising contract to the US agency TBWA Worldwide in a deal reported to be worth $150 million.

The BBC has warmly welcomed a decision in London's Restrictive Practices Court which ruled in favour of the English Premier League selling broadcast rights en bloc for all its 20 clubs.

The Sri Lankan cricket board has signed a $7.75 million deal with India's Sony Entertainment Television that gives the company rights to telecast all matches played on the Indian Ocean island.

A leading legal expert in London says the decision to rule in favour of the Premier League's en bloc sale of exclusive broadcast rights is 'out of line' with those made in Europe on the same collective selling issue.

A leading sport legal expert says he is surprised that the UK Restrictive Practices Court has ruled entirely in favour of the English Premier League's sale of soccer rights.

News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch has said he is not interested in lifting his stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream from its current 35 percent.

Italy's Antitrust competition regulator has told Telepiu it must stick to a law which limits any one pay-TV operator to a 60 percent slice of rights to broadcast Italian first division soccer matches.

NHL franchise, San Jose Sharks and Fox Sports Net Bay Area have reached a new long-term television agreement that makes Fox Sports Net Bay Area the sole television provider of Sharks games.

UK bookmaker, William Hill, is set to expand its online betting service in the US and Far East.

Fox Sports World Espanol, the only U.S Spanish-language sports cable network, have recorded a ratings success with last month's Copa America.