Media

Universal McCann Event, McCann Erickson?s sports marketing department in Paris, has brokered a partnership agreement between Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), the world governing body for air sports, and Discovery Wings Channel, the North American channel for air sports enthusiasts.

Sportsworld Media Group, the sports TV production, sponsorship and event marketing company, has released its financial figures for the year ended June 30, 2000.

Octagon has acquired Movie and Media Sports, the European sports sales and venue marketing company.

The search begins in earnest this week for a new owner of Major League Baseball team the Boston Red Sox.

Chris Akers has acquired a five per cent stake in the Extreme Group (Extreme), and agreed to become the company's executive chairman.

Sky Sports has signed a new four-year deal with the World Snooker Association for two major tournaments.

Eurosport has launched the Turkish language version of its news service, Eurosportnews.

New Zealand pay-television operator, Sky Network Television Ltd., has won rights to broadcast six of New Zealand's national rugby team?s tour matches in Europe and Japan later this year.

An Australian Federal Court ruling, which obliges pay-TV company Foxtel to distribute Seven Network Ltd's C7 Sport channels, could be defied.

Lachlan Murdoch, the 29-year-old son of global media baron, Rupert Murdoch has been appointed deputy chief operating officer of News Corp Ltd, the third most senior position in his father?s empire.

3Com, which has just renewed its naming rights to the former Candlestick Park through next season, has set up about 50 transmitters in the stadium offering fans wireless internet access.

Sportal, the UK-based internet sports provider, has become the first purely dot.com company to join BIPA, the British Internet Publishers Alliance.

New Jersey's attorney-general has pressed state sports authorities to revoke the licenses of two prominent boxing promoters after they admitted paying officials to boost fighters' rankings.

Sydney?s two major stadia, the Stadium Australia Group's Stadium Australia and the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust's Sydney Football Stadium, have become keen commercial rivals.

New Jersey's attorney-general has pressed state sports authorities to revoke the licences of two prominent boxing promoters after they admitted paying officials to boost fighters' rankings.

The potential of sport in the streaming media and broadband content industry will be just one of the issues discussed at a conference in London next week.