Media

Yahoo! Inc, the leading global Internet media company, has signed a sponsorship agreement with the New York Yacht Club/Young America Challenge for America's Cup 2000, Young America.

NASCAR has completed negotiations on a contract that will showcase two Winston Cup Series races and two Busch Grand National Series events at Dover Downs International Speedway on The Nashville Network for the 2000 race season.

The two clubs who reach the European Cup Final next May will each receive up to 25,000 tickets for the match at the Stade de France in Paris, UEFA has announced.

Ascent Entertainment Group Inc. said late Monday that Liberty Media Group ended its merger agreement with Ascent, as the deal was conditional on the sale of Ascent's sports-related business, which has not yet gotten Denver City Council approval.

The NFL has launched its official Super Bowl site, Superbowl.com, with Miller Lite as its presenting sponsor.

Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox and Internet venture Ignite Sports Media have agreed a multi-year Internet media rights licensing contract.

Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc has formed a strategic alliance with Spain's Telefonica S.A. in a deal worth about $4billion which should allow Hicks, Muse to further expand its cable television assets in Latin America.

Shareholders in English Premier League soccer club Newcastle United have approved its money-spinning partnership with cable company NTL.

NBC Quokka Ventures and MSNBC.com, America's number one news site, have signed a strategic partnership to distribute nbcolympics.com content to MSNBC.com users during the Olympic Games.

Both the BBC and its rival ? the commercial network ITV ? will broadcast live coverage of the England vs Germany clash at Euro 2000 this summer.

Advertisers of Super Bowl television coverage this year will pay, on average, more than $2 million for 30 seconds of time before an audience that Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network predicts will exceed 120 million, reports The Wall Street Journal.

Arena Leisure, which owns Lingfield, Britain's busiest racecourse, has agreed to buy the course at Folkestone in Kent for #3.25m.

Rapidly shedding its image as a grey, northern industrial city, Manchester will project a youthful, vibrant image at the first Commonwealth Games of the new millennium.

Nascar is to stage 15-25 branded concerts from May-August next year in partnership with CBS and TNN, in a move to attract a younger and more geographically diverse audience.

Air France signed a surprise pay deal with its striking pilots Wednesday, ending a devastating 10-day dispute at the airline just hours before the start of the World Cup soccer tournament.

Irish state broadcaster RTE has signed independent production company Oblivion Television to produce all Irish horse racing coverage for the next six months.