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TalkSPORT, the UK's only sports radio station, has defeated the BBC today in London's High Court over its coverage of soccer?s Euro 2000 tournament.
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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.
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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.
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BBC Sport has struck back following the morale-sapping loss of Premier League broadcast highlights to terrestrial rivals ITV.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ESPN is to launch a 24-hour television service in Israel tomorrow (Thursday).
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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.
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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.
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UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has won the rights to broadcast exclusive coverage of the England cricket tour to the West Indies in 2004.
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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.
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British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) is expected to land the main prize in the scramble to televise England's Premier League football.
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Octagon CSI?s international television rights contract with the Federation Internationale de Hockey (FIH) has been extended up until 2004.
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Paul Chantler is to join The Wireless Group as group programme director in charge of UK radio station talkSPORT and its 16 local stations.
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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.