Media
S&F FOOTBALL FUND WIDENS INVESTMENT BRIEF
The UK?s Singer & Friedlander Football Fund, the first investment fund dedicated to football related businesses, is to change its name to the S&F Global, Media and Leisure fund.
TYSON V LEWIS FIGHT ? BROADCASTERS IN TALKS
Rival cable television broadcasters HBO and Showtime are negotiating to present a fight between former champions Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis.
CAR-MAKERS JOIN FORCES TO CHALLENGE FORMULA ONE
Europe?s leading car-makers met last week in Rome to discuss plans to set up a motor racing competition to rival Formula One.
TENDULKAR SIGNS $17m MANAGEMENT DEAL
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar has signed a five-year contract worth an estimated 800m rupees ($17m) with sports management company WorldTel.
ITV BEATS SKY IN CUP FINAL RATINGS WAR
UK terrestrial broadcaster ITV attracted a peak of 7.8 million viewers for Saturday?s English FA Cup soccer final, with an average of 6.8 million over the entire match.
BROADCASTERS TO BATTLE IT OUT FOR SCOTTISH PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCER RIGHTS
Pay-TV and terrestrial broadcasters will soon be battling it out to win the rights show live matches and highlights of Scottish soccer Premier League matches after current contracts run out at the end of next season.
FIRST QUARTER EARNINGS RISE AT NTL
NTL, the UK?s largest cable telecoms company which boasts 8.5m subscribers and has a 10 percent stake in English Premiership soccer clubs Newcastle United, Leicester City and Aston Villa, said earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation rose by about 32 percent to $124m for the three months to March 31 compared with the previous quarter.
MURDOCH CLOSE TO DIRECTV DEAL
Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation is on the verge of becoming the largest global satellite network after lengthy negotiations for control of US broadcaster DirecTV were said to have entered an `advanced? stage by DirecTV?s parent company Hughes Electronics.
GG MEDIA STEPS UP ITS COMPETITION WITH GO RACING
GG Media has stepped up its bid to broadcast horseracing in the UK in competition with the Go Racing consortium, by launching an advertising campaign.
DALLAS ONLINE BROADCAST AD DROPPED
An American radio station has dropped its online broadcasts of a local ice hockey team because of advertising concerns.
SPORTBUSINESS 2001 SPECIAL REPORT: SPORTS SECTOR GROWTH TO CONTINUE, SAYS BOON
A leading sports industry advisor has told SportBusiness 2001 delegates that the sports sector success story is set to continue - despite the drop-off in advertising spend and threat of recession.
SPORTBUSINESS 2001 SPECIAL REPORT: BBC ISSUES STERN TV RIGHTS WARNING
The BBC has warned sporting bodies that they threaten the future of their respective sports by increasingly favouring pay-TV companies over free-to-air broadcasters when securing television rights deals.
VIVENDI SET TO PULL OUT OF ISL RESCUE BID?
French media giant Vivendi may yet pull out of its bid to take control of troubled Swiss marketing giant ISL.
ENGLISH FOOTBALL LEAGUE NAMES NEW COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR
The English Football League has appointed Richard Masters, 34, as its new Commercial Director.
MANCHESTER GAMES ORGANISERS DEFEND THEIR EVENT HANDLING
The organisers of the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester have defended their handling of the event after coming under fire for failing to promote it enough.
DEAL GOES SUPERSONIC AFTER $200m SALE AGREED
The Ackerley Group has completed the divestiture of the Seattle SuperSonics NBA franchise for $200 million.
SEMA HOPEFUL OF SALT LAKE CITY SUCCESS
The Salt Lake Organising Committee is confident that its computer network will perform well for next February's 2002 Winter Games.
SOUTH KOREAN BIDS FOR OLYMPIC PRESIDENCY
South Korean Kim Un-yong has joined the race for world sport's most powerful job -- the International Olympic Committee (IOC) presidency.