Media
UNION ATTACKS NFL CONTRACT CLAUSE
A clause in the contracts of Cincinnati Bengals players that would financially punish athletes who criticise team officials to the media, has been attacked by the NFL?s players?union.
ONDIGITAL WIN LATEST UK SOCCER TV PACKAGE
British pay-TV company ONdigital said on Friday it has won a three-year #315 million ($476.2 million) contract to show English Football League and Worthington Cup soccer matches.
BBC/BSKYB WIN FA CUP/ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL MATCH RIGHTS
BBC Sport has struck back following the morale-sapping loss of Premier League broadcast highlights to terrestrial rivals ITV.
CORAL EUROBET TEAMS UP WITH DREAM LEAGUE
Sportsworld Media Group has named Coral Eurobet?s ?eurobet.co.uk? web site as the exclusive on-line gaming partner for its subsidiary Netsports? ?Dream League? fantasy sports brand.
PRIME MINISTER `SAD? AFTER BBC TRUMPED BY ITV IN SOCCER RIGHTS DEAL
The BBC licked its wounds on Thursday after losing television rights to England's top-flight soccer but the government said it would not cough up more money for the public broadcaster.
FOX SPORTS NET TO MERGE INTERNET/TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
Be Here, a US provider of internet video technology, and FOX Sports Net have teamed up to explore ways of adapting internet technology to live sports television production.
BBC SIGN SOCCER WEB BROADCAST DEAL
The Scottish Premier League and BBC Scotland have signed a deal to allow supporters worldwide to hear live internet broadcasts of every league game next season.
PREMIER LEAGUE RIGHTS NET $2.5 BILLION
Rights to screen English Premier League football for the next three years have fetched #1.6 billion ( $2.4 billion) according to sources closes to the bidding process. The breakdown will be announced at a press conference in London at 6.30pm ( London) today.
ESPN LAUNCHES NETWORK IN ISRAEL
ESPN is to launch a 24-hour television service in Israel tomorrow (Thursday).
EDWARDS SET TO QUIT UNITED?
The head of Britain's richest soccer club Manchester United Plc is likely to step down this year in a move that will mark the end of four decades of family control, the Financial Times has reported.
SUPER BOWL MVP?S ANGER ACTORS? UNION
Super Bowl MVPs Kurt Warner and Terrell Davis have angered actors? union members by crossing a picket line to film a non-union Campbell's Soup commercial during the unions' ongoing strike against the advertising industry.
TALKSPORT WIN ENGLAND TOUR RIGHTS
UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has won the rights to broadcast exclusive coverage of the England cricket tour to the West Indies in 2004.
PREMIER LEAGUE TV DEAL ? FURTHER DETAILS
Up to 40 English Premier League games will be screened on pay per view from the 2001-02 seasons under the terms of a ground breaking new television deal.
BSKYB STILL TOP BET TO SCOOP FOOTBALL PRIZE
British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) is expected to land the main prize in the scramble to televise England's Premier League football.
OCTAGON RENEWS FIH TV DEAL
Octagon CSI?s international television rights contract with the Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH) has been extended up until 2004.
TALKSPORT GETS NEW CHIEF
Paul Chantler is to join The Wireless Group as group programme director in charge of UK radio station talkSPORT and its 16 local stations.
TALK SPORT FORCED TO GIVE UP EURO 2000 LIVE TAG
The High Court has banned radio station talkSPORT from calling its Euro 2000 coverage 'live' after a complaint from the BBC, reports the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.
SPORTSTALK.COM PARTNERS COLLEGEBROADCAST.COM
SportsTALK.com, a US provider of in-depth, inside sports news, has formed a strategic partnership with the multimedia entertainment and marketing company College Broadcast.