Media

European sports website Sports.com has expanded its relationship with Oddset, the online sports betting arm of Deutsche Lotto and Toto Block.
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ESPN has sold out of its sponsorship packages for the seventh annual X Games to be held in mid-August in Philadelphia.
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New Zealand pay television operator Sky Network Television Ltd has named private broadcaster TV3 as Sky's free-to-air broadcast partner for rugby union and cricket for the 2001/02 season.

Turner Network Television (TNT) has recorded the second highest NASCAR television ratings in basic cable history with its coverage of the New England 300 race.

UK terrestrial broadcaster the BBC has signed up 400m stars Cathy Freeman and Michael Johnson as part of its commentary team for the upcoming World Athletics Championships, to be held in Edmonton, Canada through August 3-12.

Enic, the sports group that owns English Premier League soccer team Tottenham Hotspur, is expected to announce this week that it has sold UKbetting.com, its internet bookmaker, to Eric Semel, a former director of one of Las Vegas?s largest casinos.
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The English Premier League has awarded the production contract for its 40 pay-per-view (PPV) soccer matches to satellite broadcaster Sky Sports in a deal reported to be worth around #2.5 million ($3.54m) a year.
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The gambling industry in the UK will come under scrutiny today when a government-sponsored report led by the former chief economic adviser to the Tresury, Sir Alan Budd, is published.

The future of European basketball?s premier club competition is in disarray following the chaos caused by the recent rejection of reunification proposals between rival organisers ULEB and FIBA.

Chairman of bankrupt International Sports Media and Marketing (ISMM) Christoph Malms denied in a Swiss Sunday newspaper article any suggestions by FIFA president Sepp Blatter that ISMM may have improperly diverted funds paid to it by Brazil's TV Globo.

English Premier League soccer club Everton will have to sell players before making any new signings after a major media deal collapsed, the club's deputy chairman and main financial backer Bill Kenwright has revealed.

The ever-increasing cost of sports rights is forcing potential bidders to look at new ways to raise money, according to broadcast analysts responding to the merger of RTL Group, Vivendi Universal and Groupe Jean-Claude Darmon.

Racecourse and media group Arena Leisure Plc will close its #85m ($122m) fundraising a week earlier than originally planned, according to UK press reports.

UK online sports companies will continue to struggle in the coming years - even with the extra revenue benefits from online gambling, according to a new report.

Spain?s Sogecable added 96,000 subscriptions to its digital channel Canal Satellite in the first quarter of 2001 to take its total to 1,148,072, an improvement of 30.7 percent over the last 12 months.

Cable operators NTL and Telewest are to work more closely together with the aim to compete more effectively with Europe?s second-largest pay-TV broadcaster BSkyB.