Media

Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic has struck a deal with online broadcasting specialist Servecast.
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The Australian National Basketball League has cemented its multi-million-dollar deal with sports marketing company Sportsworld Media Group.

Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) has finalised its broadcast rights deal with the CBS Television Network and Fox Cable Networks Group beginning with the 2002 season through 2004.

The enthusiasm for terrestrial digital television was dampened today after Spanish pay-television network Quiero admitted it is facing huge financial problems.

Britain's leading cable companies NTL and Telewest Communications Plc have held debt restructuring talks with international banking group JP Morgan Chase, according to the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.

Online sports companies were given a much-needed boost after Jupiter Media Matrix, a New York-based research firm, said the online advertising market would rise in 2001.

Alternative Investment Market-listed Radio First, the UK-based media company aiming to create a national digital radio network around Premiership soccer clubs, has seen its share price jump 8p to 34.5p as excitement builds for the kick off of the new English soccer season.

Satellite TV interests in Poland are expected to merge in order to accelerate profitability in eastern Europe's strongest television market.

The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has been buying advertising slots from the media companies that broadcast its tournaments in a move which it hopes will secure advertising space for its major sponsors such as Mercedez-Benz.

US television ratings for the exhibition matchplay golf tournament dubbed the `Battle of Bighorn? were disappointing for host broadcaster ABC.

US satellite platform, DirecTV is running a new promotion which offers $300 (?342.90) worth of free programming to new subscribers to its `NFL Sunday Ticket? pay-per-view package.
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In the wake of the recent test case ruling involving the Independent Television Commission (ITC), 2002 World Cup TV rights holders the Kirch Gruppe could decide not to part with the rights, meaning UK viewers would be unable to watch the tournament to be held in Japan and South Korea.

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has won a landmark test case hearing over London-based Danish channel, TV Danmark (TVD) which will have severe repercussions on the Kirch Gruppe?s dispute with UK terrestrial broadcasters BBC and ITV over the domestic TV rights for the 2002 soccer World Cup.

Hungarian retail group Fotex bought a majority stake in first division soccer champions Ferencvaros on Saturday in a deal worth 2.4billion forints ($8.38m), commercial television station RTL Klub said.

The European Commission (EC) has challenged UEFA's policy of selling free and pay-television rights for the Champions League on an exclusive basis.

Sports.com CEO Tom Jessiman has told sportbusiness.com the sports internet and mobile data company is well-placed to be the ?last man standing? in pan-European online sports content, following the #9.3million ($13m) equity funding boost from its existing investors.