Media

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.

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.

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.

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 .

Cable sports channels could be cut out of the basic package arangement if a move by Republican Congressman Billy Tauzin is appproved.

Walt Disney Co. has offered to pay the National Hockey League about $400 million for five-year exclusive broadcast rights on ABC and ESPN, the Wall Street Journal has reported.

News Corp. took the first formal step toward the public offering of stock in its and TV businesses including Fox Sports when it filed a prospectus for Fox Entertainment Group.

Asia's economic crisis has begun to bite into Singapore's professional soccer league, with players being forced to take a pay cut, a source close to the island state's national team has said.

St. Louis slugger Mark McGwire's record 62nd home run on Tuesday brought a historic rating high for the Fox network.

British investment company ENIC Plc has announced the acquisition of an interest in Swiss soccer club FC Basel, continuing the recent rash of corporate merger and take-over activity in the soccer sector.

ABC's Monday Night Football continued to dominate ratings this week but Baseball and Clinton's Presidential peccadilloes made for unspectacular figures, with the lowest rated Dallas game ever.

After the extraordinary success of its mid-summer trial, USA has given a two-year commitment to "WWF Sunday Night Heat."

The head of the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping panel has resigned and the organisation's former president Mario Pescante has been placed under investigation as Italy's soccer-doping scandal widened.

Michael Jordan confirmed yesterday that the NBA Player's union is unified and will never accept a hard salary cap.

Alberto Tomba has officially hung up his skis, leaving the powdery pistes for the silver screen.

Broadcasters who use their new digital channels to sell subscription services, such as pay-per-view sports events, will have to hand over 5% of their gross revenues to the U.S. Treasury, the FCC ruled Thursday.