Media

USA Networks, the USA Cable owned and operated cable company, has recorded, soaring ratings for the 2001 US Open Tennis Championships.

Athletics action at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane has failed to live up to the ratings success of swimming, ranking only as the sixteenth most watched programme on local television on Tuesday night.

Sportinglife.com, the UK?s multi-sports website, has joined forces with Amstel, Europe?s second largest beer brand, to produce a site which will allow soccer fans to follow the UEFA Champions League over the next eight months.
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Shareholders in Italian soccer club Juventus have approved the report and accounts for the year ended 30 June 2001 and have given the go-ahead for the company to proceed with a listing on the Italian Stock Exchange.

The England soccer team?s triumphant win over rivals Germany on Saturday has inspired a string of unnamed companies to approach UK soccer?s governing body the Football Association (FA) with sponsorship deals.
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Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, has lent his support to plans to stage the World Athletics Championships at a new 43,000-seater stadium and training complex at Pickett?s Lock.

KirchMedia has acquired a 25.5 percent stake in online sports portal Sport1 from German internet firm Axel Springer Verlag.

Swedish internet TV provider Kamera has bought the UK internet protocol (IP) rights to a package of Serie A match highlights from MP Web, the new media company of the Milan-based Media Partners group.
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The organisers of an anti-racism soccer tournament in Rome hailed it as a success on Tuesday but the event was marred by the glaring absence of hardcore Lazio fans, who boycotted the event.

US broadcast network UPN rescheduled its September 6 edition of `WWF Smackdown? so as not to pull viewers away from the MTV Video Music Awards to air that night.

Dutch soccer team Feyenoord Rotterdam is looking at ways of offering virtual advertising to its sponsors. The move comes amid a wave of Asian interest in the sport since the signing of Japanese star Shinji Ono from Urawa.

US investment group Liberty Media has moved to calm fears that its buy-out of six German cable television companies from Deutsche Telekom had stalled by announcing that a deal has been signed worth around $4.95 billion (?5.5bn).

Rival French satellite platforms Canal Satellite and TPS have begun informal talks regarding a merger of their operations as the consolidation of the global satellite sector continues.

European sports website Sports.com is to offer real time betting odds to soccer fans via a set of updateable banners which have been created and produced by London-based interactive marketing agency Tribal DDB.
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Sportech PLC, the holding company for Littlewoods Leisure, the pools betting company it acquired in September 2000, has reported that its telephone and online sports betting customer base grew to over 208,000 registered customers in the six months to June 30.

Rivals.net, the Chrysalis-based sports network, has said goodbye to two of its management staff as part of a company restructure.