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Sport and Technology - December 2005
In association with Infostrada Sports
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Welcome to Sport and Technology, the monthly e-newsletter published by
consulting and research company ArkSports Limited, delivering insight on the
impact of technology on sport to over 5,500 sports executives every month.
**********************Breaking News*************************************
Sport and Technology: The Conference 2006 - Places Strictly Limited to 172
Tickets are selling fast for Sport and Technology: The Conference 2006 which
will be held on 23 February next year at BT Centre in London, sponsored by BT
Media and Broadcast. And only three weeks remain for delegates to take
advantage of the earlybird discount. The format of the conference will follow
a discussion-style format with speakers from organisations including BT, BBC
Sport, the Australian Football League, PSV Eindhoven, Sports Resource Group,
Deltatre, Hawk-Eye Innovations, Cat Games, Kirkpatrick and Lockheart,
Wasserman Media Group, Sportev and Premium TV, giving us all an insight to
what is hot and what is not in the Sport and Technology sphere. There will
also be elongated networking breaks and an evening cocktail party with a
celebrity charity raffle. For further information on the conference and to
secure your delegate space at the must-attend event of 2006, please visit
http://www.sportandtechnologyconference.com
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Features
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/
Q&A: Rocket Racing League - December 2005
This month, S&T is excited to be taking to the skies with new US property, the
Rocket Racing League, being hailed as 'Formula One in the air', and set for
launch in 2007.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0322.html
View from the Editor: The Italian Job - December 2005
S&T travels to Torino as a guest of Olympics IT Sponsor ATOS Origin for a
gander around the Winter Olympics 2006 venues and facilities.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0323.html
**********************Announcement**************************
Hollis Sponsorship Awards - Deadline approaching
It's time to get working on entries for the Hollis Sponsorship Awards, the
sponsorship sector's most highly prized and highly respected awards. The
deadline is 23 January 2006 for the Awards which recognise excellence
across the entire spectrum of the sponsorship sector. To ensure your place on
the shortlist, please visit www.hollis-pr.com and click on the Awards icon.
Here you can download information on past winners, tips on how to put together
a winning entry and an entry form. Alternatively, email rosie@hollis-pr.com or
call Rosemary Sarginson on 020 8977 7711.
The Hollis Sponsorship Awards Dinner takes place on 28 March 2006 at
London's Grosvenor House. For more information, please email
debbie@hollis-pr.com.
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Case Study: Player One gets the power- December 2005
With the PDC World Darts Championships rapidly approaching, S&T speaks to Pete
Russell, managing director of global mobile content provider and games
publisher Player One Ltd, the company behind 12 times World Champion Phil 'The
Power' Taylor's mobile darts game.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0324.html
Case Study: I-Comm zooms onto a desk-top near you - December 2005
Colin Smith reviews a desk-top marketing solution developed by his company
Interactive Communication Group (ICG) that he believes is tipped to push the
evolution of e-communication effectiveness to quantifiably higher levels.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0325.html
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Feature: US Sports Biz - December 2005
S&T's US correspondent Mark J Jeffers, takes another look at the wild and
wacky world of the movers and shakers in sports across the other side of the
pond...
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0326.html
Conference Review: "Be Brief, Brother Be Brief" - December 2005
Mark J Jeffers dusts off his reporter's notepad and attends Street & Smith's
Sports Media & Technology conference held in New York City in November 2005.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0327.html
Infostrada Sports' Databox - December 2005
This month, the spotlight is put on the 2006 Winter Olympics that will be held
in Torino.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/features/0328.html
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News
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/
3G for the UK's geegees - December 2005
The Racing Post, the leading UK racing and sports betting newspaper owned by
Trinity Mirror, and Racing UK, the UK's premier horseracing channel, have
launched a pioneering broadband betting site (www.thebettingsite.co.uk) and 3G
mobile phone service.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#01
Smartball technology on hold - December 2005
Adidas has confirmed that the so-called 'Smartball technology' that uses a
ball as an information carrier will not debut at the 2006 FIFA World Cup after
all, despite earlier plans to utilise the technology.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#02
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Premium TV - Sponsor of Sport and Technology News
PTV is Europe's leading broadband and mobile sports content company, owning
and operating a state-of-the-art broadband and mobile sports content
management system and internet platform. PTV helps sports and entertainment
rights owners maximise the value of their digital rights and capitalise on the
growth in the broadband and mobile content markets. It packages their content
into commercial offerings for broadband and mobile consumers and operators,
driving revenues from subscription, syndication, advertising, betting and e-
commerce, across the UK, Europe and Worldwide. PTV is the leading platform for
football content on broadband and mobile, packaging and exploiting digital
content for 86 British professional clubs, including 10 English Premier League
clubs including www.nufc.co.uk, four SPL clubs including www.rangers.co.uk and
the bulk of the English Football League, including the governing body
www.football-league.co.uk. PTV works across other sports including the World
Rally Championship www.wrc.com and many other entertainment genres.
For further details contact Bryan.winning@premiumtv.co.uk
Mobile: +44 07977 218763 - or take a look at http://www.premiumtv.co.uk
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MLBAM in WCSN deal - December 2005
The World Championship Sports Network has announced a strategic partnership
agreement with Major League Baseball Advanced Media.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#03
PA Sport launches PSL Mobile - December 2005
Sports news and information provider PA Sport, together with the South African
Premier Soccer League (PSL), have launched the PSL Mobile soccer information
service.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#04
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Empics - Digital Sports Photography - Sponsor of Sport and Technology
Empics is an international sports photo marketing agency, making innovative
use of technology to provide customers with picture solutions. It offers
Picture Buyers a digitised sports photolibrary of over 650,000 images covering
moments and heroes from the world of sport from the 1860s to the present day -
the choice of newspapers, magazines, books, websites, sporting bodies and
marketing agencies, around the world, every day. EMPICS was acquired by the
Press Association in 2004 and has subsequently developed is its ground-
breaking ShootLive production service, which enables the delivery of still
images taken at events to fans on any digital platform within a matter of
seconds. ShootLive integrates live text and data from The Press Association to
create detailed "pictorial" event chronologies. ShootLive is now in production
across a range of high profile sports and entertainment events.
For further details about Empics, contact Phil O'Brien
(phil.obrien@empics.com) or visit http://www.empics.com
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UEFA Cup action on the web - December 2005
News of an exclusive live broadcast of the UEFA Cup match SK Slavia Praha
versus AS Monaco FC on broadband.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#05
Formula One Sponsorship Forum gets technical - December 2005
Juan Villalonga, the former chairman of Telefónica, talked about the huge
potential still latent in Formula One at the inaugural Formula One Sponsorship
Forum in Monaco.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#06
New facility for GlobeCast - December 2005
Global content management and delivery company GlobeCast, a subsidiary of
France Telecom, has completed the build out of its new Technical Operations
Centre (TOC) in Miami.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#07
**********************Announcement*********************
SportBusiness Group - media partner of Sport and Technology: The Conference
2006
The SportBusiness Group is a world leader in the provision of commercial
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SportBusiness helps its clients make business decisions that have a direct
impact on their bottom line. SportBusiness International Magazine is a monthly
magazine that delivers regular features on sports sponsorship, TV broadcast
rights and new technologies, alongside special features, supplements,
interviews and commentary from the the leading decision makers in the sports
industry. SportBusiness Group is to introduce a new concept with the launch of
Campus 2006 at the Cass Business School in the City of London on 29-30 March
2006. For further information, please contact andy.rice@sportbusiness.com or
visit http://www.sportbusiness.com
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WWE RAW and SmackDown launch on handsets - December 2005
THQ Wireless is planning to launch WWE RAW and WWE SmackDown, the newest
officially licensed mobile games based on the top-selling World Wrestling
Entertainment on major carriers in the US and Europe.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#08
PGA launches internet TV channel - December 2005
The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) is launching its own broadcast
channel over the internet on the back of a new dedicated broadband service for
golfers.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#9
ATP serves up Podcast - December 2005
In November, tennis fans were able to listen at their leisure to a daily audio
wrap of the latest action from Tennis Masters Cup Shanghai after the ATP
launched its exclusive 'ServeCast'.
http://www.sportandtechnology.com/news/0329.html#10
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