Media

Fast Track has won a major contact outside its core athletics business as it looks to expand its consultancy operation into other sports.

A recent research project by Sports Marketing Surveys on the Cricket World Cup has shown how successful sponsorship is amongst cricket fans in creating brand awareness.

NBC Quokka Ventures, has announced that Randy Falco, the president of NBC Television Network and chief operating officer of NBC's Olympic broadcast group, has joined its board of directors.

The English Premier League is to make a ruling over whether British Sky Broadcasting can keep a stake of more than 10 percent in champions Manchester United while also holding shares in Premiership rival Leeds United ? the latest stage in a long-running saga over media company ownership.

Major League Soccer (MLS) had made a number of changes to its format and rules, as well as its matchday and broadcast schedules, according to the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Daily Bulletin.

UK broadcaster Sky Sports has won the exclusive live rights to the next two Ryder Cups between Europe and the United States.

Italian champions AC Milan will launch their own television channel in January, the club has announced.

The co-founder of Broadcast.com has struck a deal to buy the Dallas Mavericks, according to a report in USA Today.

Nike Inc.'s corporate Web site, www.nikebiz.com , has received the Brooks New Media national SITED Award for Best Corporate web Site.

English Premier League soccer players could register goals that are repeated on television as their own intellectual property, according to a report in The Observer newspaper.

Ali Bacher is stepping down as managing director of South Africa's cricket board to concentrate on staging the 2003 World Cup.

AltaVista Company, the media and commerce network and FOXSports.com have agreed that FOXSports.com will be the exclusive content provider for the AltaVista Live! Sports Channel.

Eighteen Australian National Rugby League teams have their own Internet web sites.

Russell E Wolff has been appointed Vice President, Programming at ESPN STAR Sports.

Television ad inventories are selling out as France prepares for next month's WorldCup tournament.

The Spanish football club Real Madrid, which won the European Champions Cup last month for the first time in 32 years, has bought back part of the Canal Plus empire in Spain for Pta12bn ($80m) from Gesport.

Canadian broadcaster TSN says first round World Cup matches have produced outstanding ratings.

A Florida financial broker has signed the NFL?s biggest stadium naming rights deal.