Media

New Zealand pay-television operator, Sky Network Television Ltd., has won rights to broadcast six of New Zealand's national rugby team?s tour matches in Europe and Japan later this year.

The National Football League and Yahoo! have signed a multi-faceted content and distribution agreement that includes live audio play-by-play webcasts of virtually all of this season's regular season NFL games.

Online auction site eBay Inc is to form an alliance with the National Football League to sell pro-football merchandise, memorabilia and "fantasy experiences" to raise money for charity.

UK commercial television network ITV has commissioned Red Pepper Film Company to produce a new package of sport "stings" to run before all of ITV Sport?s presentations.

The NFL?s newest franchise- the Houston Texans -have signed a 10-year radio broadcast deal with Infinity Broadcasting.

Strong interest in the Olympics is driving up the audience of New Zealand websites, according to research company AC Nielsen.

ISL has signed a 15-year partnership deal with Brazilian soccer club Gremio - the latest stage in its move to establish a firm hold on some of the key clubs in South America.

VTV, recently-acquired by UK-based The Television Corporation and now part of Sunset+Vine, has won a new four year contract to produce and distribute coverage of English badminton until 2005.

The owner of the Dallas Cowboys has said he wants a new 100,000 stadium ? twice the size of their current home.

NBC Sports has signed up Orad's 'Virtual Swimmer' technology to enhance its coverage of the Olympic Games swimming events.

InMotion Technologies is to create a website for the TISSOT-UCI Mountain Bike 2000 World Cup Finals in Leysin and Lausanne.

Celtic?s UEFA Cup match against AS La Jeunesse D?Esch from Luxembourg will be webcast live on Celtic?s official site, www.celticfc.co.uk.

Former NBA player Bill Bradley has been approached to take over as chairman of the US Olympic Committee, according to media reports.

The Extreme Sports Channel and Extreme.com are to be `golden? sponsors for this years Urban Beach International which takes place at the London Arena from the 11-15 August.

The Australian Football League will cut coverage of the 2001 pre-season Ansett Cup by half to avoid over-exposure. The Seven Network Limited will televise only 14 out of 27 games.

Costa Rica has set itself up as the offshore gambling capital of the world with large quantities of US cash entering the country in the lead up to the start of the American football season

The fabled Montreal Canadiens, the hockey team that has won more Stanley Cup championships than any other, has drawn the attention of several would-be buyers since brewer Molson Inc. put the team up for sale last month.

Entertainment, sports and media group ENIC plc has offered to buy most of the 40% stake in Premier League soccer club Tottenham Hotspur held by its chairman Alan Sugar, the Independent on Sunday reported.