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The Canadian Football League has struck a deal with Orad to use its virtual advertising systems on broadcasts over The Sports Network.
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Quokka Sports, a provider of online sports entertainment, has launched The Quokka Sports Affiliate Programme. The programme is intended to increase the reach of the Quokka Sports Network and extend the Quokka brand to new audiences. It is also designed to drive sales to Quokka's online stores.
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The North American Broadcasters Association (NABA) has teamed up with the International Council of the National Academy of Television and Arts Sciences (NATAS) to present a special breakfast panel on the future of sports broadcasting at this month?s Sportelamerica.
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A British parliamentary watchdog has urged the UK government to reverse its decision to rebuild Wembley into a showpiece soccer stadium with no athletics track.
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The Australian Olympic Committee has created a new web site with a new address ? www. aoc.com.au.
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Four Italian Serie A soccer clubs have said they did not plan to leave pay-TV group Stream but could sell their stake to co-shareholders Telecom Italia and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp for the right price.
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Barcelona has made a bid to host the next bout of former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, according to local press reports.
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The German Football Federation (DFB) and top Bundesliga clubs are bidding to launch their own pay-TV channel for the live broadcast of matches, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin, based on a report in the Suddeutsche Zeitung.
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365 Corporation, the UK-based internet content and telephone service provider, has acquired Datanet Holdings in a cash-and-paper deal worth #31m, reports the Financial Times.
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Italian Serie A club Lazio has said it plans to leave Rome's Olympic stadium and move to a new ground.
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The beleaguered organisers of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games have suffered a second blow in two days when the official broadcaster suspended its advertising contract.
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A group of Icelandic businessmen and an investment bank are in talks about buying a majority stake in English second division soccer club Stoke City, an Icelandic banker said.
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The impact of a biennial World Cup could cost European soccer at least $1billion over an eight-year cycle and severely damage European soccer until at least the year 2016 says a study of the plan ommissioned by UEFA.
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Latin America?s Octagon Koch Tavares has signed a deal to be exclusive marketing agency for the Brazilian Tennis Confederation (CBT).
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A proposed sell-off of Britain's state-owned horse race betting business - The Tote - is still under review, a government official has said.
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The latest professional sports study published by Paul Kagan Associates, has concluded that $4 billion worth of proposed new stadium construction will revive fan interest in some of Major League Baseball's depressed markets.
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The president and other officials of the International Boxing Federation have been indicted for bribery, charged with selling rankings to boxers over the past 14 years for as much as $100,000.
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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.