TV deal 'fuels transfer spending'
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New owners and a TV deal help English football clubs spend more than Â£530m on players, a survey says.
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NTL, the UKâs largest cable company, has agreed to sell its radio and television broadcasting business for Â£1.27bn to a fund managed by Australiaâs Macquarie Bank.
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US iPlayer in the works Just as the BBC is slashing jobs at home, its commercial tentacle is ramping up efforts to squeeze money from its programming and web content abroad.â¦
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Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd says the Â£15m from Jonathan Woodgate&#39;s sale will be used for team building. Shepherd said the decision to sell Woodgate to Real Madrid was his as the offer was &quot;too good to turn down&quot;.
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LIKE the high street sales, the mid-season transfer window, which opens tomorrow until January 31, has become a bit of a non-event. Most of us spent all our money before Christmas, while going shopping just for ...
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The role of agents in multimillion-pound football transfer deals came under fresh scrutiny yesterday after Manchester United revealed payments of Â£11m to middle-men for their help in signing players.
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Two former network heads signed a deal to provide programs across all the companyâs television channels.
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Mark Hughes has been warned that Blackburn are no longer the bottomless pit of cash that they were a decade ago - but the new Rovers manager will have some money to spend when the transfer window reopens in January.
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By STOCK ROB  KIWIS ARE paying up big for pay TV compared to folk overseas, so shaving a few dollars a month off bills is tempting.
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Ma Bell finds new ways to make you pay for TV.
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The BBC will step in to subsidize some of Channel Four's digital transmission costs in a bid to ease Channel Four's funding shortfall, sources said Monday.
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Popular global TV shows will soon be available in the UK under a deal between internet provider Tiscali and broadcaster JumpTV.
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HBOS is said to be in talks with potential financial backers over how to fund an Â£8bn takeover bid for Abbey National in a move to break up a takeover plan from Spain&#39;s Banco Santander Central Hispano.
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The influx of Spaniards to Liverpool look set to continue with the imminent arrival of Luis Garcia. Spanish dailies Marca and Sport claim that the Reds have agreed a fee - believed to be in the region of £6million - with Barcelona for the winger.
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Liverpool Football Club may receive its third offer of investment in six months after a Hollywood producer said he is considering a bid for English soccer&#39;s most successful team.
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The longest running saga of the January transfer window finally came to an end when Robbie Savage completed his move from Birmingham to Blackburn for a fee of around three million pounds.
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CABLE firm NTL has agreed to sell its broadcast infrastructure business to a consortium led by Australia&#39;s Macquarie Bank in a deal worth Â£1.27bn, and could return the money to shareholders through a special dividend.