Media

AutoNation, the automotive retailer with $18 billion in annual revenues, has become an official first-time sponsor of the National Football League and Super Bowl XXXIV in Atlanta on January 30, 2000.

France Telecom has taken a 10% stake worth $1bn in NTL the Nasdaq-listed UK media company.

Turkey said today it had taken all necessary security measures ahead of next week's European swimming championships.

Sydney's scandal-weary Olympics organisers had some good news this weekend - Australians are buying tickets to see the 2000 Games.

News Corp Ltd have completed the acquisition of Liberty Media Corp's 50% interest in Fox/Liberty Networks.

SportsLine Europe, the majority-owned subsidiary of the Internet sports media company SportsLine USA, has entered into a three-year promotional and consulting agreement with IMG.

The Fox network has signed a major multi-million dollar deal to begin broadcasting Dominican Republic baseball games.

German TV channel TM3, which pulled off the coup of the year in German sports broadcasting by buying the rights to Champions League soccer, aims to triple its market share in the long term, according to a German magazine report.

A member of the British House of Lords has appealed for English soccer club Manchester United to not pull-out of this season's FA Cup tournament.

UK sport and leisure group Enic is set to enter the on-line betting scene after newspaper reports revealed it was in discussions with independent bookmaker Victor Chandler.

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.