Media

Turkish soccer clubs have rejected a proposal from state television to help end a dispute over broadcast rights that has prevented the re-start of the Turkish first division programme.

Sports and Outdoor Media (SOMI) is rebranding following its acquisition by Sportsworld Media Group last March.

German media giant Kirch , which is engaged in a bid to rescue ailing EM.TV & Merchandising, has said that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp had bought a 2.48 percent stake in KirchMedia KGaA.

British Eurosport has formed a partnership with FIA-GT and FIA-ETCC to launch a new concept in motorsports ? the ?Super Racing Weekend.?

Turkish state television has offered to step in to resolve a dispute over soccer broadcast rights that has led to the suspension of all first division matches.

ISL is ?no Titanic? according to its spokesman ? despite mounting industry speculation that it is in financial dire straits and one industry figure?s claim that it is the ?beginning of the end? for the Swiss marketing giant.

German media firm EM.TV & Merchandising is talking to a U.S. investment bank about selling its 50 percent stake in Formula One holding company SLEC amid signs that talks on a rescue by media giant Kirch have faltered.

Hong Kong pay television operator i-Cable Communications Ltd is in talks to carry the ESPN sports channel and Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd channels on its network.

Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), the 24 hour sports channel, has signed a multiyear partnership with soccer legend Pele.

With only weeks to go before the launch of the XFL American football league, XFL President Basil DeVito is confident that the ?reality show wrapped inside America?s most popular game, ? will surpass original revenue forecasts.

ISL has denied press reports that it is facing a `$1bn financial crisis? ? or that it is on the verge of terminating its deal with the ATP for the television and marketing rights to the Tennis Masters Series.

American sport and its commercial partners should target the growing US Hispanic population in order to maximise revenues, according to a leading research consultant.

A small British investment bank is ready to buy EM.TV's 50 percent stake in Formula One holding company SLEC, challenging media giant Kirch's bid to rescue the debt-laden firm, industry sources revealed.

Online and telephone betting service betinternet.com have signed an exclusive broadcast and betting agreement with the Irish Greyhound Board, offering access to the Irish Tote.

Prisma the sports rights agency have sold the rights to the 2002 World Cup soccer tournament to YLE, the Finnish state broadcaster.

IOC marketing director Michael Payne has endorsed the Olympic movement's brand management strategy for the Sydney Games following a "full debrief" on Olympic sponsorship issues at an IOC meeting in New York.