Media

US Spanish-language television broadcast company, Univision Communications Inc., have announced that Stephen J. Solomon, executive vice president and chief operating officer of the National Hockey League, will join Univision as president of its sports division.

The French government has agreed on a bill to tax revenues from broadcasting rights and use the proceeds to help sport at local and youth level.

Direct Satellite Broadcasting Ltd (DBS) have taken control of Israeli Premier League club Betar Jerusalem.

Soccer legends Pele and Johan Cruyff share an apocalyptic vision that commercial exploitation may destroy professional football as we know it.

CI Host, a fast-growing Internet solutions and the web hosting industry, has purchased a first-time sports sponsorship through Adauction.com - a media exchange that brings buyers and sellers together in one marketplace.

This weekend?s Rugby World Cup final between France and Australia drew an audience of over 14 million French television viewers or 79.6 percent of those watching French TV at the time, TV group TF1 has said.

Total Sports, the online sports new media company that focuses on providing real-time, event-centred sports coverage, has completed the offering of approximately 2,100,000 shares of Series D Preferred Stock to certain institutional investors.

Sports TV company Sportsworld Media has struck a #22.4 million deal to buy Australian Media Holdings, the TV and sports sponsorship group.

An Anglo-American group is interested in Italian Serie A Bologna, club chairman Giuseppe Gazzoni Frascara has said.

Australia's telecommunications giant Telstra Corp Ltd said it had talked to the Australian Football League (AFL), but it was not in the process of bidding for the pay TV or Internet rights of the game.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA is to lay down new guidelines to control on-screen virtual advertising during televised matches.

European broadcaster CLT-Ufa has confirmed it was in talks with Rupert Murdoch to buy selected television rights to European Champions' League soccer.

SportsJuice.com, a Desktop Live company, has signed a two-year deal to be the exclusive online webcasters for the North American Football League and its 60 member teams.

NBC and Turner Sports cable television have signed a three year deal contract worth more than $90m (#55m) for the American rights for Wimbledon.

MVP.com board members John Elway, Michael Jordan and Wayne Gretzky, joined CEO John Costello in launching MVP.com, the online destination for high-quality sports, fitness, and outdoor gear and apparel.

Sponsors of horse racing events at the UK's top racecourses have warned the so-called "Super 12" not to sell their broadcasting rights to BSkyB, reports The Guardian newspaper.