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At the demand of FIFA, Poland's scandal-ridden soccer federation holds presidential elections on Monday which will determine if the country's football industry is rebuilt or sinks deeper into isolation.
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Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone's threat to pull F1 racing out of Europe if the EU competition authorities presses its investigation into the sport and imposes substantial fines could backfire.
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President Bill Clinton said after the US won the Womens' World Cup final that he expected more girls to take up sports.
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German TV channel TM3, which pulled off the coup of the year in German sports broadcasting by buying the rights to Champions League soccer, aims to triple its market share in the long term, according to a German magazine report.
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NHL franchise, San Jose Sharks and Fox Sports Net Bay Area have reached a new long-term television agreement that makes Fox Sports Net Bay Area the sole television provider of Sharks games.
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The beleaguered organisers of the Rugby World Cup have criticised ITV's coverage of the event as a "disgrace" according to a report in the UK?s Guardian newspaper.
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Pressure is building for Air New Zealand to spend millions of dollars to fly the All Blacks to the rugby union World Cup in their own black jet, the company said on Sunday.
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TVNZ, Loral Skynet and Warner Bros. have joined the North American Broadcasters Association (NABA).
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TalkSport, the UK?s sports radio station owned by media entrepreneur Kelvin MacKenzie, said revenues for the six months to June 30 rose by 9.4 percent to #5.6m ($8m/?9m) despite a fall of 7.2 percent in national advertising revenue for the industry as a whole.
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Rival French satellite platforms Canal Satellite and TPS have begun informal talks regarding a merger of their operations as the consolidation of the global satellite sector continues.
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Digital sports content provider TEAMtalk Media Group plc has recorded an operating loss of #2.3million ($3.4m/?3.6m) for the three months to June 30 but still sees profitability on plan in 2003/04.
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TV network Cable & Wireless Optus is offering 300 Australian Rugby fans the chance to use their television remote controls to order pizza, download player statistics and get weather updates during Seven Network?s coverage of the Bledisloe Cup this weekend.
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English soccer club Chelsea is in talks with Italian club Lazio about setting up a rival to the G14 group of top European clubs.
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Advertisers have backed UK commercial network ITV?s decision to move the traditional Premier League soccer highlights to an early evening Saturday slot ? but advertising agencies have said the network has overestimated interest in the game at such a prime time.
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Walt Disney-owned sports broadcaster ESPN has announced that it still expects its Asian subsidiary, ESPN Star Sports, to reach profitability within the next three years despite recording a financial downturn in its latest results.
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Kirch, the owner of the television rights for Germany's premier soccer league, plans to offer a cheaper subscription rate to win more clients for its loss-making PremiereWorld pay-TV channel, a German magazine reported over the weekend.
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German commercial TV group, ProSiebenSat.1 Media is the latest to feel the effect of the sinking advertising market after it reported a 3 percent decrease in its revenues for the first half of the year.
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Australian sports fans soon may have to pay to see Australia play cricket in countries other than Britain and a host of other events deemed too unpopular to deserve free-to-air television coverage.
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