Events

The World Wrestling Federation has signed three new distribution agreements in Asia as part of its strategy to expand programming within the region.

The World Cup became the latest casualty of Japan's economic slump when organisers said they were slicing $22 million off the budget for the 2002 event.

English football?s Premier League has sold its pay-per-view rights for #181m ($258m) to a media consortium made up of British Sky Broadcasting, Ondigital, Telewest and NTL, the Premier League confirmed to sportbusiness.com

IEC in Sports has renewed its television distribution deal with the European Amateur Athletics Association.

i-Cable, Hong Kong?s dominant cable operator, expect its subscribers to grow from 520,000 to 548,000 by the end of 2001 on the back of its acquisition of World Cup 2002 and the recently secured English FA Cup soccer.

The Houston-based sport-marketing agency Global Productions has been selected as sponsorship agency for the Texaco Havoline Grand Prix of Houston for 2001.

TVNZ Satellite Services is hopeful it will retain the Premier League global satellite carriage contract when the current three-year contract concludes at the end of the 2000-2001 season.

China bid farewell to Olympic Games inspectors on Sunday, brushing off human rights concerns and vowing to make Beijing the clean, green and modern city it promised in its bid to host the 2008 Games.

Madrid mayor Jose Maria Alvarez del Manzano is due to make a formal proposal to bid for the 2012 Olympic Games at a meeting with the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) today.

Lennox Lewis promoter Panos Eliades has dismissed a suggestion from one of his own associates that the world heavyweight champion will fight Mike Tyson on July 21.

Kirch Group are looking to circumvent laws on listed events in the UK in order to sell 2002 World Cup broadcast rights to British pay-TV operators.

The Arena Football League's sales and marketing entity Arena Football League Properties (AFLP) has named Marc Lowitz as vice president of Broadcast, New Media and Business Affairs.

Sports sponsorship and marketing agency Azorie Consulting Ltd has appointed Debbie Jarrold as its new events manager.

The Denver Metropolitan Football Stadium District board is expected to approve an offer by Invesco Funds Group to name the new Mile High Stadium Invesco Field at Mile High.

Greece is to launch a tender in early February for the construction of the Olympic village for the 2004 Games in Athens.

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.