Media

Scottish Premier League soccer champions Celtic have hailed a trial pay-per-view broadband broadcast a success ? despite just 30 percent of broadband subscribers watching the game.
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Tom.com, the media and advertising company controlled by Hong Kong businessman Li Ka-Shing, has won the broadcast and advertising rights to China?s national basketball league, adding to its portfolio of Chinese volleyball, table tennis, rowing and college soccer rights.

The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow?s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.
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A new digital sports channel to be launched by UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV helped secure the British coverage of the next two Rugby World Cups in a deal worth at least #40million ($57m/?65.14) to the International Rugby Board (IRB).

UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 4 has told sportbusiness.com that it will not renew its contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) when the current deal expires at the end of the year due to increasing difficulties with editing the violent content.

Latin American pay-TV sports network PSN is to broadcast more than 100 matches from two of the region?s soccer tournaments ? the Copa Mercosur and the Copa Merconorte.

French media group Vivendi Universal has unveiled strong second-quarter revenue and earnings growth, bucking the current downturn in advertising spend.

The recommendations laid out in this week?s UK government-sponsored review on the gaming industry would not become effective for at least another five years, an independent report by an international broking firm predicts.

Investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (DKW) has distributed a research note claiming that Manchester United plc has been the subject of bid speculation.

The future of Go Racing, the UK broadcasting consortium run by BskyB, Arena Leisure and Channel 4, was still looking fragile today after Dubai horse breeding family the Maktoums voiced concerns over the group?s #307m ($435m) horseracing media deal.

Sportsworld Media, the London-based sports marketing group, has said it would like to recruit some Asian clients from bankrupt marketing group ISL Worldwide.

Writing exclusively for sportbusiness.com, Tom Simpson, a member of UK law firm Ashurst Morris Crisp's Communications Media and Technology group, explains how legal principles of `fair dealing? operate to safeguard exclusive sports broadcast rights.

Eurosport and Premium TV, the sports rights and content subsidiary of NTL, have rebutted an article published in the business section of UK newspaper The Sunday Telegraph (20 May 2001) claiming that NTL is trying to sell its stake in British Eurosport.

Former LA Raiders owner AL Davis has lost his $1.2bn law suit claiming the NFL forced them back to Oakland in 1995.

ZOO Digital, the UK-based company that helps brands optimise financial returns for their sponsoring rights, has bought digital marketing firm Startle Digital for an undisclosed sum.

NBC has sold ? just under 70 percent of its available commercial air time? for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, according to NBC Olympics chief operating officer Randy Falco.