Media

The British Horseracing Board has backed down on its financial demands from bookmakers for the rights to its pre-race data following recommendations from the secretary of state for culture, media and sport Tessa Jowell.

The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has reportedly asked satellite operator BSkyB and terrestrial network BBC to help save digital terrestrial channel ITV Digital from collapse.

Media Content has expanded outside its normal sports programming diet with a new deal struck with Devine Entertainment - and vowed there will be more non-sport deals to come.

Germany's premier football league, the Bundesliga, has called an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the potential financial crisis facing the division in the wake of the Kirch crisis.

ESPN in Latin America has sold the broadcast sponsorship to this week's Masters golf tournament to three major US corporations.

This summer's FIFA World Cup tournament could be the catalyst for a revival in the fortunes of the broadcast industry with estimates suggesting a surge in television advertising revenues for May and June.

TV rights to the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups have been moved to KirchSport after KirchMedia filed for insolvency this morning.

London law firm Fladgate Fielder has created a dedicated sports, media and technology Group (SMT).

A row is brewing within Scottish soccer amid claims the two biggest clubs in the Scottish Premier League - Celtic and Rangers - could be about to scupper plans the League had to set up its own TV channel.

The Arena Football League (AFL) has signed a sponsorship deal with ADT Security Services.

UK commercial network ITV has been forced to reduce the price of its soccer World Cup broadcasts by £1m according to media reports.

Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has decided not to bid for the rights to England's home Six Nations tournament matches, leaving the way open for UK public broadcaster the BBC to show all Six Nations matches from 2003.

Football is more and more about the Premiership, the Champions League, the World Cup and the European Championship. The rest are fighting for survival, according to Chris Reed, marketing director at online sports group Rivals Digital Media.

ukbetting, the stock market-listed digital betting operator, which bought up the Sportal brand last year, has teamed up with Orange to provide mobile betting services.

German soccer clubs facing a financial shortfall if media giant Kirch collapses as expected will be supported by goverment cash.

Soccer governing body FIFA has revealed that it is still owed £630 million ($904.8m/EUR1.02 billion) by the near-bankrupt Kirch Group on its TV rights deal for the 2002 and 2006 World Cup.