Media

A new boxing website goes live this week ? launched to coincide with the heavyweight championship bout between Lennox Lewis and Frans Botha.

Soccer?s world club champions Corinthians of Brazil, are to play a pre-season friendly in Paris to be screened live across Latin America by the Pan American Sports network.

Entertainment specialist Haymarket Advertising, the media arm of Global Entertainment Media, has completed a merger with North American entertainment agency Echo Advertising + Marketing - a move which will consolidate the companies? sports client interests.

Phnom Penh police have ordered dozens of illegal betting shops to close due to mounting concern over a gambling frenzy sparked by the Euro 2000 football championships which had led to near riots.

Media and leisure entertainment business Enic is close to finalising its takeover of Gibraltar-based online bookmakers Victor Chandler International, according to the financial news website, www.sharecast.com.

TalkSPORT, the UK's only sports radio station, has defeated the BBC today in London's High Court over its coverage of soccer?s Euro 2000 tournament.

Paul Chantler is to join The Wireless Group as group programme director in charge of UK radio station talkSPORT and its 16 local stations.

Sri Lanka's cricket board has elected a new administration after one of the two main contenders pulled out at the 11th hour saying the vote was not fair.

Rivals.com has named Patrick Crumb as senior vice president of business development and Michael Smith as vice president of human resources. Kim Leaming was promoted to vice president of marketing.

Senior executives of UK sports video-on-demand company VNL Sports are describing a new deal with ESPN as a turning point for the company.

The English Premier League will consider plans this week to launch its own pay-television network instead of selling soccer rights to a third party broadcaster, the UK?s Guardian newspaper has reported.

Italian Serie A soccer team AS Roma debuted on the Milan bourse today with solid gains, but market players said emotional buying and speculation would determine potential upside more than the club's fundamentals.

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.

Ford Motor Co has launched an innovative marketing campaign whereby its TV commercials will be integrated with sports programming. In an unusual arrangement causing some concern about the merging of advertising and programming, Fox TV?s upcoming ``No Boundaries'' adventure sports TV series will strongly resemble the Ford ``No Boundaries'' advertising campaign for trucks.

The Australian government has said it expected this year's Sydney Olympics to give the economy a boost in the September quarter, adding about one percentage point to gross domestic product and cutting the current account deficit.

Sportsworld Media Group plc, the sports, media and entertainment business, has been appointed as exclusive marketing and media agent to the International Triathlon Union (ITU), the governing body for the sports of Triathlon, Duathlon and related multi-sports worldwide.