Media
AUSTRALIA TO REVIEW FREE-TO-AIR SPORTS
THE list of sporting events that should be available first on free-to-air television may be revised after an investigation by the Australian Broadcasting Authority.
BIDDING CITIES AWAIT IOC JUDGEMENT
Even the most experienced Olympic observers cannot agree on which city will win the battle to stage the 2008 Summer Games as the deciding vote draws near.
SEVEN BILLION TUNE INTO EURO 2000
The EURO 2000 football championships were watched by a cumulative audience of seven billion people, a new survey reveals.
ISL SIGN FUJI XEROX AS NEW WORLD CUP SPONSOR
Fuji Xerox has brought some welcome relief to troubled Swiss marketing giant ISL by becoming an official partner of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.
MAYOR LIVINGSTONE HOLDS FINAL SAY ON LONDON OLYMPIC BID
Ken Livingstone, the outspoken mayor of London, will hold final approval for any London Olympic bid, the British Olympic Association (BOA) chairman has said.
CANAL PLUS $2BN EUROSPORT SALE
French pay- television company Canal Plus, a unit of Vivendi Universal , said it had received two billion French francs ($280.6 million) from the sale of its Eurosport stakes to TF1 .
NTL/BBC SPORTS CHANNEL TO GO FREE ON PAY-TV
The new sports channel that the BBC and cable broadcasters NTL plan to launch this year will be free to existing subscribers of BSkyB, ONdigital or NTL.
FRANCE GETS RED CARD FOR 1998 WORLD CUP COSTS
France's soccer team may still be world champions, but the country's accountants have issued a red card to the French state for lavishly funding the 1998 World Cup and a new space-age stadium at taxpayers' expense.
SPORT SUMMIT REPORT: HISPANIC DEMOGRAPHIC TOPS FOR SPORT, SAYS POLL
American sport and its commercial partners should target the growing US Hispanic population in order to maximise revenues, according to a leading research consultant.
ROMANIAN SPORTS MARKETER CALLS FOR PRO GYMNASTICS
The head of a leading sport marketing company in Romania has slammed the International Gymnastics Federation (GIF) for failing to allow payment at GIF sanctioned events.
WALKER STARTS FURTHER ROUND OF TALKS OVER WEMBLEY
Wembley National Stadium Ltd (WNSL) chairman Rodney Walker has started a new round of talks to discuss his plans for an athletics track in the new national stadium.
JAGUAR NAMES NEW PR
Jaguar Racing has unveiled a new PR structure, and appointed Nav Sidhu as manager of communications and public affairs.
UK SPORTS VIEWING ON THE INCREASE, SAYS SURVEY
A survey of UK viewing habits has revealed an increase in the amount of sport watched by the British television audience last year.
PGA SIGNS TOUR SPONSOR
Insurance group, The St. Paul Companies will sponsor the PGA Tour?s 2001 West Coast Swing events.
SMI PRESIDENT H.A. ‘HUMPY’ WHEELER BULLISH ON 2001 NASCAR SEASON
Following a flat year on the business side of the US motorsports industry, H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and chief operating officer of Speedway Motorsports, Inc, has said that the growth experienced by the industry, and NASCAR Winston Cup racing in particular, during the 1990s will resume in 2001.
WIGE AND RTL TEAM UP FOR ONLINE SKI DEAL
WIGE and RTL New Media are to team up to produce an online service package for the forthcoming four-hill ski-jumping tournament and ski-jumping World Cup.
MEMBER FEDERATIONS COMMENT ON OLYMPIC INTERNET FUTURE
Member federations of the International Olympic Committee(IOC) have been commenting on the issues raised by the IOC World Conference on Sports and New Media in Lausanne, Switzerland.
IOC NEW CONFERENCE: SESSION 5 ? RIGHTSHOLDER PREPARE FOR CYBER WARFARE
The concluding session of the first day of the IOC Sports and New Media conference re-emphasised the key values of rights exclusivity, but according to Christopher Murray, Chairman of the Entertainment & Technology Dept of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles: "The web has so radically changed the dynamics of publishing, that with one keystroke anyone can download a CD or video and become a pirate".