Media

Ratings for the NBA playoffs on both broadcast and cable television remain down from a year ago, although favorable match-ups in the conference finals could help stop the bleeding.

A major F1 team has launched a CD-ROM offering comprehensive multi-media content for sale in UK high?street stores.

The Kirch Group has decided on the price of its pay-per-view season tickets for the Bundesliga next season, reports the soccer industry newsletter, The Soccer Investor Weekly Bulletin.

The 2000 Cuervo Wakeboard Pro Tour, which is taking place this summer in five venues across Europe, has secured a series of five TV programmes in the Meridian, Anglia and HTV regions.

British Eurosport is to broadcast round the clock coverage of Euro 2000 ? and let its viewers select the nighttime programming by voting on the internet.

Virtual imaging firm Orad Hi-Tec Systems has signed a deal for its CyberSport system to Japanese firm IMAGICA.

The BBC has pulled its flagship Saturday sports show Grandstand from its schedules this weekend as a result of intense competition from its rival free-to-air channels.

ISL Worldwide is to buy up all outdoor media sites surrounding the venues staging soccer?s Euro 2000 in a bid to thwart any plans of ambush marketing.

British online sportswear retailer Boo.com is on the verge of collapse signalling the first failure of a major internet player and fuelling a potential backlash against e-tailing stocks.

Enic, the UK-based entertainment, sports and media group has acquired ukbetting.com, the internet bookmaker for #500,000 ($749,000), reports the Financial Times.

Digital pay-TV company, ONdigital, is to ask the UK's Office of Fair Trading to investigate the competition for the right to screen Football League matches, reports the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.

Australia?s Seven Network has signed a new pay-per-view deal to provide coverage of this summer?s Olympic Games in Sydney.

Digital pay-TV company, ONdigital, is to ask the UK's Office of Fair Trading to investigate the competition for the right to screen Football League matches, reports the UK's Sunday Business newspaper.

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

FOX Sports World (English-language) and FOX Sports World Espanol (Spanish-language) have acquired the broadcast rights to the UEFA European Championships (EURO 2000).

Ladbrokes, the Hilton-owned leisure group, and Teamtalk, the football-based news website and telephone service, are expected to announce a deal enabling Teamtalk to provide content for Ladbrokes? on-line gambling operations.