Media

The World Professional Pool Championships was the most watched sports programme on cable networks across Chinese Taipei during July according to host broadcaster ESPN.

The Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team, the newly formed Class A affiliate of the New York Mets, will play its first ever game in front of television cameras following a joint rights deal struck with US broadcasters MetroChannels Sports and WNET Thirteen.

US broadcaster Jefferson Pilot Sports (JP Sports) has reached an agreement with Sportvision to include the sports media technology company’s 1st & Ten electronic first down marker in JP Sports’ syndicated football broadcasts.

UK satellite broadcaster Sky Sports has secured the exclusive live rights to the UEFA Cup home ties involving English Premiership clubs Leeds United and Chelsea.

New media company SportsLine.com, publisher of CBS SportsLine.com, has promoted Peter Pezaris to president, product development.

According to figures from the Institution of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA), UK viewing audiences for terrestrial broadcasters have dropped to a record low.

Spanish soccer club UD Las Palmas owes more than Pts1.2billion ($1m) to players and creditors according to reports in the Spanish media.

The media sector was given a much-needed boost today following news that advertising revenue at US media powerhouse AOL Time Warner is stabilising.

ESPN has sold out of its sponsorship packages for the seventh annual X Games to be held in mid-August in Philadelphia.

Bet Direct, the UK-based telephone betting division of Littlewoods Leisure, has reached the 200,000 customer milestone.

Algeria's Mohamed Zerguini, one of the longest standing members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and among those implicated in the Salt Lake City scandal, died on Thursday morning in Algiers aged 79.

Argentine soccer players are planning to go on strike for the second time this year over unpaid wages and bonuses.

The image of pay-per-view (PPV) sports television was tarnished today just weeks before the English Premier League launches its PPV soccer matches after PPV film and sport service u>direct abandoned its plans to broadcast tomorrow’s Intertoto Cup semi-final between Newcastle United and Munich 1860.

KirchMedia has reported a “successful fiscal year 2000” with the integration of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, annual sales of DM6,508million ($2,912m/B

The U.S. Masters will break with tradition in 2002 by televising all 18 holes of the leaders' final round, officials announced on Thursday.

The protracted negotiations between the UK horse racing’s governing body The British Horseracing Board (BHB), and Go Racing, the syndicate that hopes to broadcast the sport, will finally come to a close by 10:30 today after lengthy negotiations last night between the two parties.