Italy

Football

Sportitalia, the multi-sport broadcaster, has retained its domestic rights to the Primavera youth football competitions operated by Lega Serie A
Olympic Games

Italy’s double gold medal success in track and field attracted strong viewing figures on Rai, the Italian public-service broadcaster, yesterday (Sunday) afternoon.
Football

Italy’s antitrust regulator, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), will not impose precautionary measures on Telecom Italia’s (TIM) contentious agreement with sports subscription serv…
Multi-sport

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has appointed long-serving Vodafone executive, Andrea Duilio, as its new chief executive
Multi-sport

Fininvest, the holding company of the family of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, has returned to having the absolute majority of voting rights in Italy-based commercial broadcaster Mediaset…
Football

La7, the Italian free-to-air television channel, has secured rights to the country’s women’s Serie A competition, along with the women’s Coppa Italia and women’s Supercoppa. The
Volleyball

Volleyball World has announced that it has signed major long-term deals with the top-tier professional men’s and women’s volleyball leagues in Italy. 
Football

Mounting debts and a lack of flexibility hampered Rai’s bid to retain Coppa Italia rights from 2021-22, leaving Italy’s public-service broadcaster without live, premium club football for at least the next three seasons.
Football

The regulatory battle over the forthcoming rights cycle to Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, has continued with Telecom Italia (TIM) filing an appeal with antitrust authorities concerning…
Tennis

Sunday’s men’s Wimbledon final between Italy’s Matteo Berrettini and Serbia’s Novak Djokovic attracted a television audience in Italy of over 4 million viewers. The
Football

Public-service broadcaster the BBC and commercial broadcaster ITV pulled in the largest television audience in the UK since the funeral of Princess Diana in 1997 as England lost the Uefa Euro 2020 final…
Multi-sport

Marco Pistoni to expected to take up a new role as senior vice-president of rights in Italy for sports streaming service DAZN
Football
Data

Italian football’s Lega Serie A has invited bids for packages including media rights for the sports betting sector, data for sports betting and media sectors and data sponsor rights for the three seasons f…
Football

Telecom Italia (TIM) has defended its contentious agreement with sports subscription service and media company DAZN for the rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic club football, after Italy’s a…
Football

The Italian television audience for last night’s dramatic Uefa European Championship semi-final between Italy and Spain reached close to 19.5 million viewers across free-to-air and pay-television.
Football

Helbiz, the US-based micro-mobility company, has presented its innovative business model for the domestic streaming rights to Serie B, the second tier of Italian club football
Football

Italy’s win over Belgium in the Uefa European Championship attracted a combined audience of over 17 million viewers on Italian free-to-air and pay-television.
Football

Football-based media platform OneFootball has picked up the broadcast rights for Japan’s J.League in Italy. The over-the-top platform will stream J.L