Media
QUOKKA WINS INDUSTRY AWARDS
Quokka Sports won three awards at the New Media INVISION 99 Festival. The INVISION Awards explore the future of content on the web and rewards those companies creating superior digital content.
RESEARCH PREDICTS SHIFT OF POWER FROM NETWORKS TO LEAGUES
Forrester Research, a leading independent research firm that analyses technology change and its impact on business, consumers, and society, has predicted that that new Web technologies will allow professional sports leagues to create and deliver innovative broadband sports programming directly to fans.
EC COULD BACK COLLECTIVE RIGHTS SALES
The European Commission?s sports commissioner, Viviane Reding, has indicated that soccer leagues in Europe may be allowed to continue negotiating their broadcast rights on a collective basis.
BBC IN SPORTS ARCHIVE DEAL WITH NTL
Britain's BBC has said it would provide wider global access to its television sports archive through a long-term deal with Premium TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of British cable television company NTL Inc.
WEMBLEY WAITS GOVERNMENT GO-AHEAD THIS WEEK
The British government could decide within days whether London's world-famous Wembley stadium should be redeveloped to host athletics as well as international soccer, culture minister Chris Smith has said.
UNITED REJECT BIGGEST SHIRT DEAL IN HISTORY ? AND HOLD OUT FOR MORE
English Premier League soccer club, and European Champions, Manchester United, are believed to have turned down the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in history by rejecting a deal put on the table by Emirates Airlines ? believed to be in the region of #7.5m ($12m) a year.
OPEN ORGANISERS ISSUE LEGAL WEB THREAT
Organisers of the Australian Open tennis tournament have threatened legal action against Internet web site operators who publish routine material on their tournament.
GREEN GETS ONLINE SPORTS JOB AS BSKYB BUY DOMAIN FOR $1m
Simon Green has been named the new general manager of Sky Sports Online ? the sports site run by broadcast giant BSkyB.
BLATTER WARNS AGAINST BREAK AWAY SUPER LEAGUE
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has issued a stiff warning to top European clubs tempted to join a breakaway league.
MEADOWLANDS RACETRACK SIGNS WITH PREDICTION SITE
Predict It Inc., an Internet service which measures, identifies, ranks and rewards users based on their prediction performance in event categories such as sports, finance, politics, and entertainment, has signed a distribution agreement with the Meadowlands Racetrack.
LAZIO SCORES BIG-TIME WITH BOURSE DEBUT
Italian soccer club Lazio matched a cup winning performance on the pitch with a dazzling debut on the Milan bourse on 6 May as investors and fans scrambled for shares.
IRANIAN WOMEN SOON TO PLAY SOCCER, OFFICIALS SAY
Iranian women will soon be able to play football, one of the Islamic republic's most prominent sports officials has said.
SPORTS & OUTDOOR MEDIA INT. ACQUIRES THE BOYER GROUP
London based Sports and Outdoor Media International has acquired The Boyer Group, Australia's principal sports stadia and outdoor advertising company.
TIME WARNER AND NBC TO FORM NEW PRO LEAGUE
Two TV networks that lost out in the high-stakes bidding to televise NFL games face major hurdles in realising their ambition to form a new pro football league, according to advertising executives.
GAME SIX CLINCHES RATINGS RECORD
NBC has clinched a record NBA Finals rating with a sixth-game overnight score that may also be the top single-game rating in league history.
NON WORLD-CUP CHANNELS INCREASE RATINGS
M6, the sole French terrestrial TV station with no World Cup coverage, has said it had more viewers during the tournament compared with the same period last year, but the rise was not as strong as the overall increase in French television viewers.
FIFA PLAN PROFITABLE NEW LOOK
If FIFA and its marketing partner ISL are right, FIFA's double-globe football symbol will soon become one of the best known commercial logos in the world.
WORLD CUP BOOST FOR BILLBOARD BUSINESS
Independent French outdoor advertising firm Dauphin saw an exceptional level of turnover in June thanks to the World Cup, according to the firm's commercial director .