Italy

Football

When Italian state broadcaster Rai bought the rights to the 2022 Fifa World Cup in April, it acquired two things: exclusive rights and a problem.
Football

Indonesian streaming platform to expand to UK, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore.
Ice Hockey

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland has agreed a four-season rights deal to become the new home in Germany and other European countries for North American ice hockey league the NHL
Football

Helbiz Media, the domestic streaming rights-holder to Italian football’s second-tier Serie B, has negotiated a distribution agreement with Amazon Prime Video, the video streaming arm of internet retail g…
Volleyball

The European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) has announced a two-year rights deal with the Discovery Sports arm of media group Discovery for the rights in Italy to its men’s and women’s Champions League clu…
Multiple Sports

Italy-based commercial broadcaster Mediaset has posted a net profit of €226.7m ($266.5m) for the first half of 2021, a significant increase on the same period in 2019.
Rugby Union

Rugby union’s cross-border United Rugby Championship will be showcased on free-to-air television in Italy thanks to an agreement announced this afternoon (Tuesday) with commercial broadcaster Mediaset.
Football
Host Broadcast & Production

Lega Serie A chief executive Luigi De Siervo has said the organisation’s new production centre will help it potentially offer matches on a direct-to-consumer basis from the 2024-25 season onwards.
Basketball

Eleven Sports has acquired non-exclusive digital rights in Italy to the EuroLeague and EuroCup, European basketball's top-tier competitions, in a three-season deal that will sit alongside pay-television…
Football

Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners has said an exit protocol is in place in which it will likely disengage from its agreement with LaLiga, the organising body for the top two divisions of Spanish…
Football

Talks over the possible entry of private equity funding into Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, are said to have resumed, with CVC Capital Partners now out of contention, according to…
Football

Indonesian OTT and pay-television platform Mola TV has acquired rights in four Asian and European markets to club competitions organised by the Croatian Football Federation (HNS) under a deal agreed with…
Football

DAZN, the multi-platform subscription broadcaster, has published audience figures for its first two weekends of Serie A football coverage in Italy, with Juventus’ 1-0 home defeat against Empoli last S…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has agreed a deal to show this season’s Serie C, the third tier of club football in Italy.
Multiple Sports
Media

Italian digital terrestrial television broadcaster Sportitalia is to launch its second free-to-air channel next week
Football
Media

DAZN, the multi-platform subscription broadcaster, has apologised for difficulties encountered by some customers during its broadcast output from the opening round of 2021-22 Serie A games, but has maintained…
Football

Sky Italia has finalised an agreement with OTT subscription broadcaster DAZN that enables the pay-television broadcaster to show all Serie A matches via satellite television in bars, hotels and other public…
Football
Media

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has welcomed a request from OTT subscription broadcaster DAZN to sublicense a package of rights in public places to pay-television…