Italy

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OTT streaming service DAZN has acquired rights in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Brazil to North America’s Major League Soccer.
Football

The Italian competition authority’s investigation into the sale of rights for Serie A is ostensibly a disaster for MP & Silva and B4 and a let-off for IMG. But MP & Silva and B4 are no longer active and IMG could yet face a major problem. The agency could be hit with a substantial damages claim by the league for lost earnings.

Italy’s antitrust authority, the AGCM, has ordered that Sky cannot strike exclusive rights deal for content and linear channels across internet platforms for three years as part of its approval of the p…
Football

DAZN picks up Copa América at bargain price as rivals focus elsewhere DAZN, Sky, Mediaset bid for International Champions Cup Rai to share Women’s World Cup with Sky, show Uefa U21s exclusively Pr
Football

OTT streaming service DAZN has acquired rights to the final of the 2018-19 edition of Spanish club football competition the Copa del Rey in five of its markets, while US media group Discovery has landed…
Football

Italy’s competition authority, L’Autorità Garante del Mercato e della Concorrenza, has fined three rights-marketing agencies a combined €67m ($74.8m) fo
Multi-sport

Italian DTT sports broadcaster Sportitalia has expanded its OTT partnership with sports and betting-related services company Sportradar in a deal that will see the broadcaster launch four new HD channels…
Football

OTT streaming service DAZN has acquired exclusive rights in Italy to this summer’s Copa América national team football tournament.
Football

In rejecting IMG’s damages claim for nearly €60m ($67.2m) in April, Lega Serie A has presented the agency with a dilemma. Taking the league to court could be expensive with no guarantee of success. And there are issues of reputation and positioning in the market.
Tennis

Tennis channel SuperTennis will be the domestic broadcaster of the ATP World Tour Finals in Italy for the five years from 2021, according to Federazione Italiana Tennis (FIT) president Angelo Binaghi
Football

Italy’s top football league, Lega Serie A, has written to IMG rejecting the claim for damages relating to the agency’s contract for the league’s global media rights, SportBusiness Media has learned. O
Football

Mediaset ‘at the window’ for Champions League as Rai-Sky renewal talks stall Broadcaster is thought to have offered uplift on Rai’s €40m per season Refi
Football

OTT operator DAZN has been hit with a €500,000 ($564,000) fine for misleading advertising in Italy. Italy’s antitrust authority AGCM found the company guilty of two breaches of the country’s consumer code. The
Football

Italy remains the only one of Europe’s big five television markets where Fifa has yet to sell the rights to the 2022 World Cup, but world football’s governing body is understood to be in no hurry to come to market and there are several reasons why it makes sense to wait.

OTT service DAZN has alleviated business uncertainty connected to Brexit by securing a licence from the German broadcasting regulator
Football

Fifa, football’s global governing body, issued on Tuesday a tender in sub-Saharan Africa for rights to a number of events to be held in 2019, including the Women’s World Cup in France.
Football

The Italian Competition Authority (AGCM) has fined Sky Italia €7m ($7.9m) after ruling the pay-television broadcaster failed to properly market its rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic football.
Motorcycling

Pay-television broadcaster Sky has agreed a three-year deal for rights to the Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) motorcycling series in Italy