Media

Fox has offered Major League Baseball about $2.5 billion in a bid to land the sport's entire post-season package from 2001-06.

Fifteen days after its official launch, the new sports information channel, Eurosportnews, has reached a distribution agreement with two leading CATV operators, Kosmos TV in Moscow, Russia and Alma TV in Kazakhstan.

Francis Tellier, CEO of Host Broadcasting Services (HBS), the company with exclusive responsibility for the host broadcast of the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan, will be addressing attendees on World Cup preparations at Sportel in November.

Host Broadcast Services (HBS), the host broadcaster for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea/Japan, is to hold the first World Broadcaster Meeting April 24/25 2001 for broadcasters involved in the 2002 finals.

Extreme Sports Channel, the first ever 24 hour extreme sports content channel, is to launch in the UK, available free of charge to digital satellite TV subscribers.

Senior officials behind the Sydney Olympics could be offered consultancy contracts for the Athens Games in 2004.

The English Football Association has finally given permission for a foreign broadcaster to set up its own television cameras for coverage of an international match.

SAIL, the South African sports brand management company, has produced strong interim results for the six-months ended 30 June 2000, pushing up headline earnings per share by 57%.

Sportswear firm Reebok has been forced to scrap a TV commercial after the athlete featured pulled out of the Olympics.

Omega Networks has launched www.ticket2sports.com a broadband, online sports resource providing fans with a virtual ticket to video-on-demand for amateur sports.

Swansea Rugby Football Club has appointed Generation Communications Ltd to manage all media and marketing activity relating to the club.

Al-Ahram, the Egyptian international media group, has signed a deal with EPSIS to introduce virtual advertising to its soccer broadcasts.

Jim Martin has joined ACTV, the digital interactive television (iTV) and enhanced media programming company, after more than a decade in the sports-led cable industry.

Australia?s Seven Network is losing viewers to its two Olympic pay-TV channels following complaints about the network?s free-to-air coverage.

US satellite pay-TV company DIRECTV and digital sports content provider, Quokka Sports have formed a strategic relationship aimed at further developing interactive sports content programming to DIRECTV's next generation set-top boxes.

Strong interest in the Olympics is driving up the audience of New Zealand websites, according to research company AC Nielsen.