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Italy’s second-tier football division, Serie B, is in talks with three agencies over its international media rights and expects to close a deal in the coming weeks, but exposure rather than revenue will b…

Sports streaming service DAZN has announced details of its new MultiView feature, whereby viewers will be able to watch up to four live or on-demand events at the same time on one screen
Football

Italy’s Lega Serie A is heading for a big drop in the value of the media rights to the Coppa Italia and the Italian Super Cup following last year’s decision to take the rights in-house and sell market-by-market.
Football

AS Roma has become the first Serie A club to launch a weekly show on social media platform Snapchat. Roma joins several other top European clubs who are offering the shows exclusively on the Snapchat platform

Italian pay-television broadcaster posted a 3.8-per-cent increase in revenues for the financial year ending June 30, 2018, it has emerged
Football

Sports media executive Luigi De Siervo has been appointed as the new chief executive of Lega Serie A, which operates the top division of Italian football
Football

AS Roma of Serie A has become the first Italian football club to seal an exclusive content partnership deal with social media platform Twitter

Media company Discovery has signed a new carriage agreement in Italy with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia
Football

Sky Italia’s head of sports rights, programming and production Matteo Mammì said today that his impending departure from the company was not linked to Lega Serie A’s search for a chief executive. He
Boxing

Live and on-demand sport streaming service DAZN has acquired rights in a host of markets to this weekend’s undisputed cruiserweight boxing clash between champion Oleksandr Usyk and former world champion Tony Bell…
Football

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has today issued invitations to tender for various media rights in France, Italy and Scandinavia.
Football

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, is reportedly close to an agreement with Mediapro to return the advance payment the Spanish agency made for its rights deal…
Football

England’s Premier League secured a modest increase in the value of its rights in Italy in this week’s deal with incumbent rights-holder Sky Italia.
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has extended its deal for rights to England's Premier League. Sky has acquired exclusive rights in Italy in a three-season deal, from 2019-20 to 2021-22
Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and its partner, the European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters, have hailed record viewing figures for the recently concluded 2018 Road…
Rugby Union

OTT service DAZN has acquired exclusive media rights to the top two tiers of European club rugby union in six of its markets
Motorsport

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has taken up an option to extend its deal for Formula E rights, with its agreement now set to conclude after the 2022-23 season
Football

Winners of international rights to the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana are set to be announced when Lega Serie A holds its first assembly of the 2018-19 season on September 12