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After almost six months of wrangling and an eight-and-a-half hour meeting on Tuesday, Football Data Company, the commercial and licensing division of England?s Premier League and Football Leagues, moved closer to agreeing a deal with the UK?s major journalist bodies over the future practices of soccer journalists.
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South African sports brand marketing company SAIL has notified the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange of discussions with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to form a commercial partnership in line with SAIL?s strategy of expanding into international sports brands.
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Asian broadcaster ESPN Star Sports and HK pay-TV operator Cable TV have reached an agreement for non-exclusive distribution of ESPN and Star Sports channels in Hong Kong.
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US broadcaster CBS has signed a deal with Samsung Electronics and Sears, Roebuck & Co to televise the network?s coverage of the 2001 college football schedule in high definition television (HDTV).
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KirchMedia has reported a ?successful fiscal year 2000? with the integration of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, annual sales of DM6,508million ($2,912m/?3,326m) and the expansion of its sports-rights trading activities.
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Walt Disney Co's ABC and ESPN units say US golfer Tiger Woods will appear in several special events for the two television networks over the next five years, in a widely expected deal.
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Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport has hired Dr Patrick Cotting from financial institution Credit Suisse to take up the post of director of strategic alliances.
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Cash-strapped German media giant EMTV has announced that its chief executive Thomas Haffa is to resign from the company he created in 1989.
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Organisers of next year?s Commonwealth Games in Manchester claim to have already raised more money in sponsorship and commercial income than any other UK sporting event has ever attracted.
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MLB Advanced Media, which manages MLB.com and each of the 30 official Major League Baseball club sites, has reported record traffic to its site.
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Susan Eid, an adviser to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has urged industry leaders in the cable market to end their quest for regulation of sports programming in the US.
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Sportbusiness.com has learnt that the disappointing financial results of German film rights and media company Kinowelt Medien AG will not jeopardise the future of multi-soccer club owner Sportwelt, in which Kinowelt owns a 10 per cent stake.
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Television scheduling for coverage of Brazil?s domestic soccer leagues has been thrown into chaos following the national government?s announcement that no matches in certain regions of the country could be played after 6pm due to an electricity shortage crisis.
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The National Soccer League final in Australia next Sunday has been brought forward three hours to allow the Seven Network media company to broadcast the match live.
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US-based Fox Cable Networks Group, a division of Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation, has agreed a transfer of programming interests with rival cable firm Comcast. The deal will see Fox sell its stakes in the Golf Channel and the Outdoor Life Network (OLN) to Comcast in exchange for ownership of motor racing network Speedvision in which Fox currently holds a minority stake.
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Sri Lankan cricket is in financial limbo after a court issued an order preventing the newly appointed interim administration from operating the cricket board's bank accounts.
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Swiss marketing company ISMM, which went officially bankrupt on Thursday, lacked a deep enough understanding of its sporting contracts which ultimately led to its downfall, according to broadcast and media analysts.
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English soccer club Leeds United is in talks with Australia's Brisbane Strikers to build closer links with the country that produced star forwards Mark Viduka and Harry Kewell.