Media

Organisers of the Wimbledon tennis championships have announced plans to start play an hour earlier this summer in a bid to combat weather-enforced delays.

Sportinglife.com is extending its multi-media content with strategic partnerships with two sport broadcasters to provide video and radio sports news coverage.

CBS Television and Sony have entered into an agreement for CBS to produce the 2001 Sony Open golf tournament live in high-definition on the CBS Television Network.

Britain's biggest cable group NTL has re-entered the battle for Premier League pay-per-view soccer coverage rights only months after pulling out of a 328 million pound ($480 million) cash deal, the Times reported on Wednesday.

UEFA chief executive Gerhard Aigner says that the Champions League needs to be reformed to prevent fans losing interest in the tournament, according to a report in a British newspaper.

Paris will stage the best Olympics ever if it wins the right to hold them in 2008, the bid organisers said in an official statement.

UK commercial sports station TalkSPORT can continue to broadcast commentary of major sporting events off the TV as it did during Euro 2000, even if the BBC has rights to the event.

Broadband Sports has partnered with adidas America to create a special area of NBA star Kobe Bryant's official website on AthletesDirect, a division of Broadband Sports, that tells the story behind the advertising campaign for Bryant's new shoe The Kobe.

The British National Ice Hockey League (BNL) has signed a deal with European online ticketing company ts.com, enabling them to sell their tickets via the BNL web site, www.britnatleague.co.uk.

Bortz Media & Sports Group is broadening its business services and expanding the company's presence in Europe by opening an office in Paris.

BBC Worldwide?s Sport Sales division has agreed a three year deal with the Dutch broadcaster SBS Broadcasting BV for the rights to the Embassy World Darts Championships.

Athens 2004 organisers hope an International Olympic Committee (IOC) team on a three-day visit this week will be pleased with Greece's efforts despite the recent sacking of the minister primarily in charge of the troubled Games.

The heavyweight title bout between Lennox Lewis and David Tua attracted less than half the US pay-per-view buys generated by Lewis? championship winning fight against Evander Holyfield.

Turkish soccer club Galatasaray Sport Club AS has clarified the terms of the proposed public listing for its media, merchandising rights and advertising businesses.

National Mobile Television (NMT), the provider of mobile television production equipment, has agreed to permanently install Sportvision?s video insertion technologies on NMT trucks in the U.S.

Sportal, the European sports content portal, has clashed with Rugby League World Cup (RLWC) organisers over journalistic access at one of the tournament?s matches.