ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is buying Racing-Live.com, an independent motorsports site founded way back in 1995. Racing-Live.com claims three million monthly uniques and has four sites - F1-Live.com, Moto-Live.com, Rally-Live.com and…

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That’s more like it. ITVLocal.com, the broadcaster’s three-year-old regional web initiative that got off to a shaky start and is built on somewhat shaky technology, is to broadcast FA Cup…

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Russian publisher GameLand is buying hockey portal AllHockey.ru from its founders for between $400,000 and $500,000, Russian business daily Kommersant reports (via Quintura). The site was founded by the pair…

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OleOle, the Beverly Hills-based soccer community that’s trying to get fans to write the editorial, has followed its recent acquisition of the Arseblog Arsenal weblog by buying eight more independent…

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As the Euro 2008 group stages draw to a close, Uefa has criticised video-sharing websites for failing to warn their contributors about uploading license-breaking material. Uefa Media Technologies CEO Alexandre…

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After considering selling the business due to spiraling costs of sports tournament rights, The Press Association has now decided to hand it on to its PA Sport unit. PA began…

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MediaFLO said it launched a special TV station today called EURO to broadcast live video coverage of the 2008 UEFA European Soccer Championship until June 29. The channel will feature…

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Perform Sales, the ad network arm of UK online publisher Perform, has acquired rival No. 9 Media for an undisclosed sum. The deal creates a a major UK player in…

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Here’s a load of arse. Niche football social media site OleOle, based in Beverly Hills, has bought an Arsenal FC fan blog called ArseBlog for an undisclosed, but likely small,…

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The London Olympics is prioritising the web in its media strategy for the 2012 Games, the event’s chairman Sebastian Coe told the Periodical Publishers Association’s Magazines 2008 conference in London…

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As our sister site contentSutra.com first reported, Canadian ecommerce operator Live Current Media Inc (LCM), which owns the bare-bones cricket.com domain, has won the portal rights to the new Indian…

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-- CricInfo Widget for iPhone: ESPN (NYSE: DIS) subsidiary cricket site CricInfo has launched a mobile widget for the iPhone. Cricinfo Mobicast, created by widget tech firm Plusmo, provides iPhone…

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ITV (LSE: ITV) has now sold its 50 percent stake in Arsenal Broadband Ltd, which runs the football club’s online interests, to businessman Stan Kroenke’s KSE UK firm. Kroenke became…

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Perhaps answering critics who argue its content line-up isn’t compelling enough, P2P TV platform Joost will start showing Premier League soccer in eight more territories, including the important Middle East…

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National and regional news publisher Trinity Mirror (LSE: TNI) is buying Liverpool-based web design firm Rippleffect Studios for up to £5.8 million. The agency, which also has London and Manchester…

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Despite its own site being down this morning, Hi-Media, the French online ad network/agency and a micropayments provider, is accelerating its web content ambitions by buying a 10 percent stake…

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In a rather surprise move, Joost has won the rights to show on-demand match highlights across the Indian subcontinent. It appears rights were given by Nimbus Sport, a sports rights…

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BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) won the rights to show Champions League matches on internet and mobile until 2012, along with the majority of TV matches (release). The network coughed up a…

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Fast Web Media, a Manchester web design subsidiary of Norwegian search ad business Fast Search & Transfer, is buying FootballForums.net after is owner went in to administration. It’s pretty straightforward…

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The BBC has launched today its recently overhauled mobile website, which now emulates the new appearance of the recently-revamped bbc.co.uk. The seven-year-old site has been updated to reflect the fact…

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The Premier League quietly won High Court injunctions this week against three websites accused of illegally streaming its live football matches over the net. FreePremierLeague.com, FootballOn.net and PremiershipLive.net had been…

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Orange has won the right to broadcast some of France’s Ligue 1 football matches between 2008 and 2012. While Vivendi’s (EPA: VIV) Canal+ TV won two of three bundles, giving…

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Somewhat audaciously, Orange is taking on Canal+ in the race to win the TV rights to top-flight French soccer. Canal+, which has 4.3 million pay-TV customers, paid 600 million in…

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Domain mania is here again. Media Corp, a niche online publisher that sold Casino.co.uk in August for £3.625 million, has bought the Sport.co.uk name for £135,000 in cash, with ambitions…

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No sooner has the nascent online secondary ticket sales market got going, it faces the possibility of government regulation, The Times warns. Sites like well-funded, Index-backed Viagogo and Mangrove/Atlast-backed Seatwave…

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