Media

Israeli cable Sports Channel has acquired the rights to the Israeli Premier League and National League soccer rights for the next six seasons.

A member of the British House of Lords has appealed for English soccer club Manchester United to not pull-out of this season's FA Cup tournament.

UK bookmaker, William Hill, is set to expand its online betting service in the US and Far East.

Guinness announced a 15 per cent sales increase in the UK for the September/October period during which they sponsored the Rugby World Cup.

The owners of Britain's 59 race courses are planning to launch their own online, tax-free bookmaking business, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

The Bank of New Zealand has withdrawn as sponsor for New Zealand's international men's cricket series, effective from the 1999/2000 southern hemisphere summer, the bank said recently.

Microsoft?s internet portal MSN has signed a deal with ESPN.com to deliver to consumers access to ESPN's online sports content through the MSN network.

European sports website Sports.com is to offer real time betting odds to soccer fans via a set of updateable banners which have been created and produced by London-based interactive marketing agency Tribal DDB.
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FIFA and FIFPro have finally reached agreement about FIFPro's participation in the implementation of FIFA's new regulations on the international transfers of football players.

English rugby union team the Leicester Tigers have appointed sports public relations agency Vision Sports PR to boost their profile at both a national and international level.

Brazilian soccer's latest scandal has taken a new twist after a private meeting of the country's leading directors was secretly recorded and then broadcast by a radio station.

Pan-american Sports Network (PSN), the pay television sports network in Latin America will offer complete coverage of the US Open tennis from August 27 to September 9.
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Sportech, the UK-based holding company for gaming giant Littlewoods Leisure, has signed a sponsorship deal with ITV?s interactive soccer coverage for an undisclosed sum.
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Asian sports broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) has finalised a deal with its Malaysian pay-TV platform Astro for exclusive coverage of English Premier League soccer for the next three seasons.
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Com.hem, the cable television division of Swedish firm Telia, is increasing its interactive services to include soccer-related initiatives.
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The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has confirmed to sportbusiness.com that it has received a letter from Prisma - the sports rights subsidiary of German media giant KirchGruppe ? demanding an investigation into the sale of television rights for the soccer World Cup.
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