Media

The Arena Football League's sales and marketing entity Arena Football League Properties (AFLP) has named Marc Lowitz as vice president of Broadcast, New Media and Business Affairs.

The UK government has repelled efforts by Leo Kirch to get round British legislation that protects every World Cup match from being broadcast on pay-TV.

HBO.com is to launch a live interactive adjunct to HBO Sports' new 12-week talk/magazine show, On the Record with Bob Costas.

Less than three weeks before tickets for the 2002 World Cup go on sale, Japan's organisers were locked in a dispute with co-host South Korea over whose name appears first.

The troubled Millennium Cup soccer tournament has suffered a fresh setback with officials canceling a third-place playoff to cut losses.

With only weeks to go before the launch of the XFL American football league, XFL President Basil DeVito is confident that the ?reality show wrapped inside America?s most popular game, ? will surpass original revenue forecasts.

MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM), the interactive media company of Major League Baseball, has selected Dinn Mann as senior vice president and editor-in-chief of MLB.com, the official web site of Major League Baseball and its 30 club sites.

Turner Broadcasting Systems is to sell its poorly performing World Championship Wrestling operation to the founders of the Classic Sports Network, now ESPN Classic.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp is to consolidate its digital media unit in the United States with Fox television, leading to ``significant cost savings''.

eSynch Corporation has partnered with Viosport to stream amateur and professional extreme sports coverage via ChoiceCaster.

Sportal, the interactive sports media company, has secured new funding to sustain the business until it becomes profitable.

The NHL?s Montreal Canadiens is likely to be sold this week to a group that includes telecom giant BCE Inc.

Local organisers of the Athens Olympics want Greeks to get more involved now that the IOC believe they are capable of staging the 2004 Summer Games.

Premier Rugby, the marketing and commercial arm of English First Division Rugby, has signed a #1 million ($1.45m) three-year deal with Sportscard, the rewards-based credit card designed specifically for sports fans.

German media giant Kirch and media group EM.TV & Merchandising could raise $1 billion to exercise an option to buy a further 25 percent stake in Formula One holding SLEC, Kirch vice president Dieter Hahn has said.

Media technology firm Sportvision has won the 2000 Horizon Award for "Sports Business Technology of the Year".