20 Dec 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
The Football Association is to consider sponsorship for the new
national stadium in a move that sports industry insiders say could be
worth more than 15m a year.
The FA and government are expected to announce today (Wednesday) that
Wembley has been selected as the site for the stadium ...
20 Dec 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
UK Athletics is seeking 1.2m for the title sponsorship of
the bulk of its grass-roots athletics programmes. The decision comes as
part of an overhaul that will allow a commercial partner to tap into
government efforts to get young people involved in the sport.
The governing body is working ...
20 Dec 2001
| by MARK KLEINMAN
Optical chain Specsavers is in talks about putting its name on the
shirts of English football referees.
The discussions follow the sport's governing body FIFA's decision to
relax the rules on referee sponsorship.
Specsavers, which has around 400 outlets around the UK, is talking ...
20 Dec 2001
| by MATTHEW ARNOLD
of a wide array of brands and navigation
of the arcane rules governing online gaming.
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19 Dec 2001
| by Mark Kleinman,
The FA and government are expected to announce today that Wembley has been selected as the site for the stadium, and are looking at a range of options for recouping the expected 700m cost.
It is understood a title sponsor has been ruled out because of likely opposition from fans. But a brand ...
14 Dec 2001
| by ALASDAIR REID
produced two weeks ago by the
Government. They're now interpreting it as a clear signal that a future ...
't this remain a political nightmare?
Not necessarily, he argues. "Actually the only thing the Government ...
12 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
it is the current intention of the government to privatise it."
Thompson, currently director of TV at the BBC ...
11 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
in the government of the BBC, in the same way that Davies was selected.
Previously, the job had been decided by the government and the successful candidate would have received a phone call from Downing Street offering him ...
10 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The government has asked for comments on the BBC's revised plans for its digital youth
07 Dec 2001
| by Claire Billings,
The licence is for a term of 10 years from the service's start date, however the service will only be available while the analogue terrestrial transmission of Channel 5 continues.
This means that if the government sticks to its analogue switch-off target of between 2006 and 2010, the Channel 5 analogue signal ...