Media

Lachlan Murdoch has completed a coup by securing the Australian Football pay-TV rights for Foxtel, to sit alongside those for rugby league.

Wembley plc?s wholly owned subsidiary 24dogs.com, the greyhound racing information and betting site, has signed exclusive partnership agreements with greyhound tracks at Poole, Milton Keynes and Swindon.

Dallas-based investment firm Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst is to slow down its Latin American acquisitions programme, according to US press reports.

China's capital Beijing has spent billions of dollars this year widening and extending roads to pave the way for its bid to host the 2008 Olympic Games, the Xinhua news agency has reported.

Broadband will replace existing broadcasters once the delivery system is all pervasive in the major markets, delegates were warned at a question and answer session this afternoon at the IOC World Conference on Sport and New Media.

MTV gets to play at Super Bowl XXXV under an ambitious programming schedule announced by CBS, which gets to show television's most watched sporting event for the first time since 1992.

UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has, for the first time, negotiated Premier League soccer rights.

Cricket chiefs of three Asian nations have sought a meeting with the Indian government to request reversing its decision to cancel a tour of Pakistan.

A new sports marketing company, headed by Stephen Pearson, formerly marketing director of TEAM AG and commercial director of the English Premier League, has been launched to develop the market for sports venue naming rights in Europe.

UK cable company NTL has exclusively associated itself with the consortium bidding for the broadcast rights to Britain's 59 racecourses.

UK commercial radio station talkSPORT has promoted its existing head of sport.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has awarded a major new contract to BT Broadcast Services to provide transmission services covering a number of Europe's top sporting events.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is today launching a new web site devoted to its groundbreaking new media conference in December.

Australia has benefited to the tune of $1.4billion from Olympic-based income during September, pushing the trade balance into surplus for the first time in three years.

Italian soccer giants AC Milan face a UEFA probe over claims they fielded an illegal immigrant in their Champions League clash against English side Leeds United.

The former managing director of the Le Mans 24 Hours car and motorcycle race, has joined pan-European broadcaster Eurosport.