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International Olympic Committee's top marketers on have predicted record television viewing levels for next month's Olympic games in Sydney, Australia, insisting the movement has recovered from the Salt Lake City scandal.
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ESPN Pacific Rim and ESPN Latin America are to broadcast live coverage of two of the top games in soccer?s Scottish Premier League to open its coverage of the new season.
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Sporting goods company Umbro is planning to launch a content and e-commerce website in September backed by a major advertising campaign.
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World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (WWFE) has appointed internet industry veteran Howard Meltzer to chief operating officer, New Media, which includes responsibility for the core web site wwf.com.
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The Australian Cricket Board (ACB), accused in the past of not taking a leading role in stamping out corruption in the game, will host an anti-corruption conference in Melbourne this week.
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The International Olympic Committee has appointed Sports Marketing Surveys to conduct worldwide television monitoring and broadcast analysis research for the Sydney Olympic Games.
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UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 could withdraw its offer for the rights to televised races at English horse racing?s Super 12 group of racetracks, according to The Guardian newspaper.
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Canal Plus Polska ? the Polish satellite channel of French pay-television giant Canal Plus ? has signed a new rights deal for domestic soccer.
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European soccer's governing body UEFA issued an official apology on Wednesday after a report on its media information website attacking England's Euro 2000 performances caused a major stir in Britain.
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Kenya's High Court has stopped elections for the national athletics body scheduled to have taken place at the weekend, according to local media reports.
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The English Football League has agreed a joint venture with cable company NTL to set up an internet portal with all 72 league clubs.
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Be Here, a US provider of internet video technology, and FOX Sports Net have teamed up to explore ways of adapting internet technology to live sports television production.
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Core Capital Partners has made an equity investment of $1.5m in the Women's Sports Network, a new media company focusing on young women and sports.
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The future of Major League Baseball team Montreal Expos was looking shaky on Thursday as wealthy U.S. owner Jeffrey Loria met his Canadian partners to try to get them to put more money into the ailing club.
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Nigeria will build an ultra-modern stadium in the capital Abuja for the 2003 All-African Games.
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The first live webcast of a Paralympic Games will take place later this year following a deal signed by the Sydney Paralympic Organising Committee (SPOC) and US firm We Media Inc.
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The New York Yankees, the club with the highest pay-roll in US baseball, is seeking to double the value of its local cable television broadcast rights, reports Financial Times sources.
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Sports website operator Rivals.com and the One-on-One Sports radio network have signed a marketing deal calling for the two to exchange content and advertising inventory.