Media

Lachlan Murdoch has completed a coup by securing the Australian Football pay-TV rights for Foxtel, to sit alongside those for rugby league.

Sports media technology company, Sportvision Inc, has announced the closing of a financing round that totals $25.5million.

Greece will build four press villages to accommodate journalists covering the Athens 2004 Olympics, organisers said on Tuesday.

Digital satellite television service provider DirecTV Inc. said on Tuesday it bought the Latin American broadcast rights to the World Cup soccer competition in 2002 and 2006 in a deal valued at $400 million.

The Australian Football League (AFL) has confirmed that the proposal by a consortium consisting of News Limited, Channels 9 and 10 and Foxtel for the broadcast rights for AFL football from 2002 had been accepted.

Britain's biggest cable group NTL has re-entered the battle for Premier League pay-per-view soccer coverage rights only months after pulling out of a 328 million pound ($480 million) cash deal, the Times reported on Wednesday.

sportbusiness.com has learned this morning that ENIC is hoping to announce the company?s expected buy-out of Sir Alan Sugar?s share-holding in Tottenham Hotspur Plc.deal today.

Eurosport.com has launched six new country-specific sports sites, including eurosport.co.uk in the UK.

The NFL?s wireless service has already attracted more than 10,000 users.

WNBA basketball will bounce from Lifetime to ESPN2 next season. Although Lifetime still has two more years left on its six-year deal with the WNBA, both parties decided the games would fare better on an all-sports network than the women's cable channel.

The NHL?s Montreal Canadiens is likely to be sold this week to a group that includes telecom giant BCE Inc.

A proposed ban on cigarette advertisements in Hungary has shocked tobacco producers and could jeopardise Formula One races in the country.

Following a flat year on the business side of the US motorsports industry, H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and chief operating officer of Speedway Motorsports, Inc, has said that the growth experienced by the industry, and NASCAR Winston Cup racing in particular, during the 1990s will resume in 2001.

Shares in English premier league soccer club Tottenham Hotspur Plc have surged after weekend newspapers reported that the club's chairman, Alan Sugar, would sell his stake.

The Salt Lake City bribery scandal is likely to haunt the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in his first year in charge, according to prospective candidate Jacques Rogge.

Athens Olympics organisers (ATHOC) are forecasting revenues from TV rights for the 2004 Games will rise 16.5 percent from the Sydney figure to $800 million.