The News Review:
- CBS RADIO to Power Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast Radio Providing Listeners …
- Let It Snow! Verizon Wireless Network Geared Up for Winter Sports …
- Being Bad (at Sports) Can Be Good
- JJB Sports Slides as Watchdog Investigates Sports Direct Stake
CBS RADIO to Power Yahoo!’s LAUNCHcast Radio Providing Listeners …
MarketWatch
The agreement unites two of the largest online radio providers and expands the breadth of free music news talk and sports content available to millions of Yahoo! users. Beginning in early 2009 LAUNCHcast’s 150 stations and more than 150 CBS RADIO stations will be combined with CBS RADIO assuming sales responsibility for the entire portfolio. A newly-created CBS RADIO player will be integrated into the Yahoo! Music site and for the first time LAUNCHcast will be available to Firefox Mac and Safari users. In addition Yahoo! News and Sports will incorporate dedicated CBS RADIO players into their respective sites featuring a wide range of local and top-rated sports news and talk stations including WFAN (New York) KNX-AM (Los Angeles) and WPHT-AM (Philadelphia) respectively. “LAUNCHcast powered by CBS RADIO expands Yahoo!’s extensive media portfolio which already includes many of the leading print and video providers in each category to include one of the largest providers of radio on the internet” said Jimmy Pitaro vice president Yahoo! Sports and Entertainment.
Related from Siera-leone: Sierra Leone: ‘Obama’ Warns Against Radio Closure
Let It Snow! Verizon Wireless Network Geared Up for Winter Sports …
MarketWatch
3 2008 BASKING RIDGE N. The company regularly invests in its nationwide network to provide thenation’s most reliable wireless service. For this season Verizon Wirelessadded new cell sites and enhanced its network to increase coverage andcapacity at some of the hottest cold weather destinations across the countryincluding: — June Mountain Ski Resort in Mono County Calif. — Bear Mountain Ski Resort and Snow Summit Ski in Big Bear Calif. — Highway 50 between the towns of Kyburz and Strawberry in California onthe way to Lake Tahoe — Mohawk Mountain in Corwall Conn.
Being Bad (at Sports) Can Be Good
New York Times United States
I will leave it to others to debate what this means for the future of sports. And let?s ignore for the purposes of this conversation the fact that the test really doesn?t predict anything with real certainty. But let?s say that you really could gauge with a swab inside the mouth your child?s chances of dominating at track and being just mediocre at football. And let?s focus on what the possibility of such a test means for parenting.
JJB Sports Slides as Watchdog Investigates Sports Direct Stake
Bloomberg
3 (Bloomberg) — JJB Sports Plc the U. ?s second-largest sporting-goods retailer dropped as much as 25 percentin London trading on concern that competitors Sports DirectInternational Plc and JD Sports Plc may have to sell theirstakes as a result of a competition watchdog?s investigation. The Office of Fair Trading said yesterday it?s consideringwhether Sports Direct?s purchase of a 5 percent holding inWigan England-based JJB represents a ?merger situation? andif so whether a combination would restrict competition. Sports Direct bought its stake in October and smallercompetitor JD Sports Plc acquired a 10 percent shareholding inJJB on Nov. JD said the purchase was a ?strategicinvestment? and the following day the London-based Timesnewspaper reported that the retailer may bid for JJB.
