Octagon’s Phil Carling, the BBC’s Dominic Coles and sports rights lawyer Dan Harrington are the latest additions to the list of top panellists for Sportcal.com’s rapidly expanding conference Sports Media Rights – The New Market Conference, taking place in London on January 24th 2006.
Phil Carling brings agency, federation and club knowledge to the mix through his position as Worldwide Head of Football at Octagon and his former roles as head of the commercial department at the Football Association and commercial director of Arsenal FC.
Dominic Coles, the Director of Rights and Finance for BBC Sport, is responsible for all sports rights negotiations across television, radio and online. He has been involved in a wide variety of rights deals including the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Wimbledon, US Masters and various domestic contracts.
Dan Harrington is a founding partner of Couchman Harrington, the leading sports business law firm. He specialises in advising on sports media rights and commercial agreements in the sports business with a broad client base including international federations, sports and media agencies, broadcasters, sponsors, brand owners and technology companies.
Carling, Coles and Harrington join a high-profile line-up of panellists representing a wide range of sports federations, broadcasters, mobile operators, broadband providers and sports agencies.
The response to the conference has been tremendous with recent registrations coming from a wide variety of organisations throughout Europe, including:
Broadcaster VTM and International University Sports Federation (FISU) from Belgium,
International Floorball Federation from Finland,
Agency Global Sportnet from Germany,
BBC, BSkyB, Commonwealth Games Federation and International Sailing Federation (ISAF) from the UK
Other organisations that have already confirmed their attendance at the conference include: AIBA (Boxing), Couchman Harrington, deltatre, European Broadcasting Union, Eurosport, Fantasy League, FA Premier League, FIBT (Bobsleigh), FIFA (Soccer), FIH (Hockey), FISA (Rowing), Formula One Management, ITF (Tennis), MP Web, NRK, Octagon, Orange, Premium TV, Six Nations Rugby Limited, SponsorMetrix, SportFive, Supersport International, TWI, UEFA.
Sports Media Rights – The New Market Conference will attract a wide variety of executives from broadcasters, sports agencies, sports federations, sponsors and sponsorship agencies, law firms, telecoms companies, advertising and marketing agencies.
Space is limited so book early to ensure your place at the first major conference of the year. Discounts are available for Sportcal subscribers and sports federations.
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