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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.
Business

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.
Events

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.
Media

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.
Media

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.
Business

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.
Business

Organisers of the Australian Open tennis tournament have threatened legal action against Internet web site operators who publish routine material on their tournament.
Events

Simon Green has been named the new general manager of Sky Sports Online ? the sports site run by broadcast giant BSkyB.
Business

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has issued a stiff warning to top European clubs tempted to join a breakaway league.
Business

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.
Business

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.
Business

Iranian women will soon be able to play football, one of the Islamic republic's most prominent sports officials has said.
Events

London based Sports and Outdoor Media International has acquired The Boyer Group, Australia's principal sports stadia and outdoor advertising company.
Events

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.
Events

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.
Business

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.
Events

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.
Events

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 .