Media

Spanish language cable network Fox Sports World Espanol has signed a deal for the television rights to the 2001 Major League Baseball (MLB) play-offs and the World Series.

Australia?s Nine Network will be the official broadcaster for the Tennis Masters Cup which will be held in Sydney from November 12-18 at the Sydney SuperDome.

Podia Group plc, the UK AIM-listed sports marketing company formerly known as e-comsport, has launched an online interactive game with Italian soccer giants Juventus.

Argentine soccer players are planning to go on strike for the second time this year over unpaid wages and bonuses.

The late Don Bradman's son John and the Bradman Foundation have appealed for people to stop profiting from the sale of the cricket legend's letters.

Sports network Sportev has launched the world?s first online interactive boxing video channel just a few weeks after signing an exclusive agreement with boxing promoter Frank Warren.

Power Leisure, the Irish-based bookmaker, has put additional pressure on the Irish government to further cut betting duty after announcing plans to move its online and telephone operations to the UK where the nine percent betting tax on punters will be scrapped on October 6.
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US drinks conglomerate Ambev could be kicked into touch by Coca Cola in the South American publicity stakes for soccer?s 2002 World Cup.

UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB has unveiled a new digital set-top box which will allow sports fans to pause live broadcasts and record one programme whilst watching another.

The PGA Tour will receive about $900 million from six US broadcast and a cable networks to show its tournaments from 2003 though 2007, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Global spending on sponsorship of sports websites has reached $453 million according to a new report published jointly by SportBusiness Information Resources and Sponsorship Research International (SRi)

Kirch, Germany?s second-largest media company is reported to have started talks with FIFA about acquiring further broadcasting rights to the next two soccer World Cups.

Basketball?s governing body FIBA is believed to be locked in talks with sport marketing?s new super group after the collapse of ISL.

A conspiracy of silence has surrounded corruption in world cricket, the first report of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption unit has said.

The BBC could this week win a battle with UK-based pay-TV group BSkyB for the rights to broadcast English international and domestic rugby union matches.

Global foreign exchange company Travelex is to sponsor the Australian cricket team's shirt during the Ashes tour in the UK.

Rainbow Media Holdings, the subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation and NBC, has promoted Andrea Greenberg to president, Rainbow Sports Networks.

Enic, the leisure and media company, which has stakes in a string of European soccer clubs, is planning to sell its retail and restaurant unit to concentrate on its sports interests.