Media

A bidding war for the broadcast rights to Major League Baseball is set to flare into life as existing deals fizzle out at the end of the current season.

Swedish sport sponsorship evaluation network S-Comm, has gained a British part-owner.

The 2000 Cuervo Wakeboard Pro Tour, which is taking place this summer in five venues across Europe, has secured a series of five TV programmes in the Meridian, Anglia and HTV regions.

Americans will see no live television coverage of the Sydney Olympics because of an 18 hour time difference between the two nations, NBC television officials were quoted as telling the Los Angeles Times.

NBC ratings for the NBA play-off series have shown an improvement on the previous weekend but are still down on last year.

The Extreme Group and UPCtv is to make joint venture the Extreme Sports Channel available in Romania and Bulgaria adding a total of potential 120,000 subscribers to its reach.

The German Football Federation (DFB) has signed a lucrative deal with German media group Kirch under which all Bundesliga matches would be shown live on pay-TV or pay-per-view for the first time from next season.

One day after a Missouri real estate tycoon bought basketball's Denver Nuggets, hockey's Colorado Avalanche and their arena, an angry member of a competing investor group told a local paper they were denied a "fair shot" at the deal.

The Formula One racing teams have denied Bernie Ecclestone his wish that conversations between drivers in the pits should be broadcast live on the sport?s digital TV channel.

Germany's Kirch Gruppe has dismissed reports it had an agreement to purchase the rights to Bundesliga soccer.

The Eurobet Arrows F3000 team has been officially launched at the Arrows F1 Team's Leafield, Oxfordshire headquarters.

BSkyB has opened talks with Ladbrokes, the leisure group owned by Hilton, that could lead to online betting on Sky Sports television channels and internet web sites, reports the Financial Times.

Fox Sports Net (FSN) has bought the over-the-air television rights to MLB?s Texas Rangers and NHL?s Dallas Stars in a 10-year, $250 million deal, which could be extended for another five years, according to The Dallas Morning News newspaper.

Columbia TriStar Advertiser Sales (CTAS) has appointed veteran sales executive Daniel Nunziata to serve as publisher of DIRECTV ON SPORTS, the monthly magazine for subscribers of DIRECTV.

X-Dream International has announced it is to change its name to Extreme International Ltd and revealed the formation of a new holding company.

The BBC has secured a five-year deal to keep live Test cricket on BBC Radio.