Media

Guinness announced a 15 per cent sales increase in the UK for the September/October period during which they sponsored the Rugby World Cup.

The Queensland, Australia, TAB betting agency has welcomed the state government's decision to dump plans to sell 20 percent of its proposed A$300 million float to a major investor.

ISL Television is to exclusively represent the international broadcast rights to the five key domestic Brazilian football competitions under an agreement with the domestic rights-holders for Brazilian football: Clube dos Treze and Rede Globo.

Betdaq, the online sports betting service based on stock market principles and backed by the Irish businessman Dermot Desmond, has launched today.
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Dutch soccer team Feyenoord Rotterdam is looking at ways of offering virtual advertising to its sponsors. The move comes amid a wave of Asian interest in the sport since the signing of Japanese star Shinji Ono from Urawa.

New Zealand sport fans are set for interactive action after Sky TV signed a deal with Holotype New Media to introduce the first such service in the country.
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Sportsworld Media Group, the London-based sports marketing group, has made a string of announcements today including the launch of a new independent production company, Zeal Television and an agreement with television production company The Chatterbox Partnership.

Guenther Struwe, programme director of German public broadcaster ARD, has predicted that the network will be taking advertising in primetime schedules for its major sports events within the next four to five years.

India's state broadcasting corporation, Prasar Bharti has won exclusive rights to broadcast the first Afro-Asian Games scheduled in New Delhi in November.

Media group Kirch has given into increasing protests and agreed to change its scheduling of the soccer highlights programme to the German Bundesliga after ratings for the show dropped remarkably in its newly allotted later time slot.

UK satellite channel, British Eurosport has unveiled a new weekly magazine round-up show for European soccer as it looks to compete with its rivals? coverage of the new Premiership season.

DISH Network, the U.S. direct broadcast satellite television entertainment company, is to offer the ESPN GamePlan college football package to customers on DISH On Demand.

Attheraces, the new name for the Go Racing consortium backed by Arena Leisure, BSkyB and Carlton Communications, has appointed three additional members of the senior management team to supplement last month?s recruitment of marketing director Gavin Bisdee.

UK broadband TV company Video Networks has become the exclusive video-on-demand partner for England?s Premier League soccer league.
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Global sports media company iSport has confirmed to sportbusiness.com it is on the verge of a major merger.

UK terrestrial broadcaster Channel 5 has picked up the TV rights to the away leg of Liverpool?s Champions League qualifying match against Finnish team SC Haka on Wednesday night.