Media

News Corporation head Rupert Murdoch is looking to restrain the company?s spending and possibly sell off assets to concentrate on the mooted $40billion acquisition of DirecTV, the US satellite operator .

Virtual imaging firm Princeton Video Image, Inc. (PVI) is to produce a branded first-down line for the first time in the international live television feeds of Super Bowl XXXV.

UK-based television rights creator and owner, The Television Corporation plc, has completed the #15million acquisition of Offshore Sport Promotions Limited, the world offshore power boat race promoter.

Fuxito.com, the US-based online soccer media source, has received an award from CollegeNational.com in a list of the best websites for the college aged demographic.

A new website that matches potential sponsors with rights holders has recorded more than 15,000 hits in its first two weeks of trading.

The Salt Lake City bribery scandal is likely to haunt the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in his first year in charge, according to prospective candidate Jacques Rogge.

UK pay-TV broadcaster, Sky digital has launched two new services as part of their interactive offering: on-screen betting through the TV channel and a new Sky Text service.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was considering allowing Internet companies to broadcast small sports on the Web.

Established figures from the Olympic Television broadcasting establishment asserted their dominance at the IOC Sport and New Media Conference in Lausanne today, but not without some furious objections from television rightsholders who have been frustrated in their own internet ambitions, and others who have succeeded in webcasting other sports.

Sports marketing agency Global Sportnet has become the latest company to join the Virtual Imaging Alliance.

The race to secure the terrestrial and interactive media to rights to UK horse racing is close to being won by Go Racing, the consortium made up of Channel 4, BSkyB and Arena Leisure.

A planned #70million takeover of Victor Chandler International, the Gibraltar-based bookmaker, by investment group Enic, is on the verge of collapse.

London and Hong Kong-based international sports marketing group World Sports Group has won the sponsorship and broadcasting rights for cricket matches in Sri Lanka for three years, the local cricket board said.

Internet TV company Kamera is to broadcast the ATP Scania Stockholm Open online next week.

UK Athletics has unveiled a multi-million pound sponsorship package with sporting goods manufacturer Reebok.

Serie A club Perugia defied a FIFA ruling and played Argentine Pablo Guinazu, currently the subject of a transfer fee wrangle, in their team against Napoli on Sunday.