Media

The International Football Channel (TIFC), the world's only 24-hour soccer channel, has launched its signal on WEYS-TV, a move that immediately guarantees the channel 17 hours of daily broadcasts to more than one million South Florida homes. As of June 1, the broadcasts will take place around the clock.

The WNBA has announced an increase in its number of its international television deals in the week leading up to the start of its new season.

The emerging battle between offshore and onshore gaming jurisdictions will be the focus of the Fourth Annual International Symposium on Internet Gambling Law and Management, to be held November 26-28 at the Royal Antiguan Beach & Tennis Resort in Antigua.

The judge who investigated charges of corruption in Pakistan cricket has said it was not necessary that all of his recommendations be implemented.

Bids for the new English Premier League broadcast contract must be submitted today, with analysts suggesting the deal could break the #2bn ($3,2bn) mark.

Sports Internet Group is reported to be on the verge of accepting an 850p-a-share bid from BSkyB which would value the company at around #220m.

Time Warner and Walt Disney have called a temporary halt to feud that has blacked out the ABC cable network in 3.5million US homes since Monday.

CNBC, the financial news network, has signed a four-year deal with the PGA Tour to televise 33 Senior PGA Tour events domestically, beginning in 2001.

Olympic President Juan Samaranch has admitted that sport federations are ?lost? in relation to forming a coherent internet strategy ? and has invited some 200 sports and media technology officials to Lausanne in November for a world summit on the issue.

Time differences between the host country of major sporting events and the major TV markets do not impact heavily on broadcaster values, according to panelists at the Sport Business 2000 Conference.

ESPN International has agreed a deal with the French Tennis Federation to continue its distribution deal for Roland Garros.

A spokesman for BSkyB has denied reports it has made any bid for exclusive UK television rights to the soccer World Cup in 2002.

KVP Venture, a $250 million venture capital fund founded by Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer and two Indian partners, has decided to invest in four Indian startup companies focused on the internet and software, the fund has announced ? and a sporting venture is set to be among the first to benefit.

South Korean sports site start?ups are proliferating and using US-based sports marketing models, according to a report from The Korean Times.

Sportsworld Media Group has integrated its SSM Freesports within the group and appointed a new commercial head of its media division.

Major League Baseball star Ken Griffey Jr has signed a sponsorship deal with Pepsi-Cola ? just one week after Sammy Sosa signed terms with the fizzy drink giant.