Media

Media Content has signed a deal with Canal Plus to launch World Wrestling Federation Entertainment in France.

Sportsworld Media, the Australia-based sports programming and marketing company, has completed its #50m recommended offer for Sports and Outdoor Media International (SOMI) now that the acquisition has been declared wholly unconditional, reports the Financial Times.

The Formula One racing teams have denied Bernie Ecclestone his wish that conversations between drivers in the pits should be broadcast live on the sport?s digital TV channel.

Mike Miller, The BBC?s Controller of Television Sport, has resigned. Miller has accepted an offer from Worldsport.com to become the editorial director.

Rome's Olympic stadium, home of the soccer league matches of Roma and Lazio, is to be sold within the year together with the swimming pool and tennis fields of the Italian capital's "Foro Italico" sport complex.

UK independent pay-per-view broadcaster u>direct has secured exclusive UK TV rights to two `Challenge Series? of one-day cricket internationals between Australia and South Africa.

Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has said there was no proposal before the government to legalise betting in cricket even as investigators widened the probe into the match fixing scandal.

UEFA's executive committee will consider changes to the format of the Champions League and could reduce the size of the competition, UEFA president Lennart Johansson said on Thursday.

UEFA have announced sweeping changes to their internal structure.

Squash media and enthusiasts will be able to participate in the sport's first live worldwide interview with the world's leading women players - including England's world champion and world No1 Cassie Campion and Australia's former three-times world champion Sarah Fitz-Gerald - during the Com4Net Munich Open which gets underway in Germany today.

NHL International, in conjunction with ESPN International, will distribute the 2000 NHL

Rights fees for the major sports properties are set to keep on rising ? according to a panel of experts at the SportBusiness 2000 conference.

Time differences between the host country of major sporting events and the major TV markets do not impact heavily on broadcaster values, according to panelists at the Sport Business 2000 Conference.

Former soccer pro, Josef Nehl (38), has been named head of the Outside Broadcasting Division of German company, WIGE MEDIA.

Snider Capital has secured an additional investment of $1.22 million in Virtual Spectator, the live internet sports channel based in New Zealand.

The European Commission has sent a legal warning to Telefonica Media and Sogecable, two major Spanish media groups, over the pooling of their broadcasting rights to Spain's league and cup soccer competitions.