Media

Lloyds TSB will support an appeal by the British Olympic Association's (BOA) to raise 4m to support the Great Britain team at the Sydney 2000 Games and Paralympics, according to a Financial Times registered source.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is investigating BSkyB's acquisition of a 9.1% stake in Leeds Sporting, the public company which owns Premier League club Leeds United, according to The Sunday Telegraph.

Broadband Sports, the privately owned Internet company, has named John Collins, senior vice president of television programming and sponsorship sales at the National Football League, as vice president, new media.

Intel Corporation and CSI, Inc., the makers of facility-based entertainment networks, have signed a development agreement to advance CSI's ChoiceSeat technology, which provides an interactive experience to sports fans.

All 31 matches in the 2004 European championships in Portugal will be shown free on terrestrial television, UEFA president Lennart Johansson has said.

Sydney-based television facilities company Global Television and production company All Media Sports have been named joint host broadcaster for the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.

German television station TM3 says it is unaware of any plan by its parent, international media baron Rupert Murdoch, to sell off the channel's rights to European Champions' League soccer.

English Premier League soccer club Arsenal has been approached by three media giants, all battling to secure a stake in the London club.

Sports media luminaries John Skipper and John A. Walsh will take leadership roles at ESPN Internet Group (EIG), following an announcement by Steven M. Bornstein, chairman, GO.com and George W. Bodenheimer, president, ESPN Inc.

The Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), a new, 24-hour, all sports cable and satellite digital television network directed at sports fans throughout Mexico, Central and South America and the Caribbean, will debut on Tuesday, February 15 with the live, exclusive broadcast of Copa Libertadores, the region's most important football event.

A leading German politician has spoken out against Rupert Murdoch's plans to buy outright and then close down the Munich-based analogue channel tm3, which currently holds the broadcast rights to Champions League football.

New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Monday has announced a financing plan to build a new baseball stadium for the Yankees, but he won't say where it will be.

Alan Pascoe, who sold his final holding in his API Group to Octagon on Monday, is back at the commercial helm of British athletics.

The London based sports management group IMG and its broadcasting operation TWI have signed an exclusive deal with Sci-del for the provision of virtual advertising services.

England will not be barred from the World Cup finals despite the behaviour of its hooligan fans, FIFA said on Monday.

The English Football Association hopes to collect #12million by selling the rights to sponsor the England football team in the run-up to the 2002 World Cup.