Italy

Lega Serie A has launched a media rights-sales process covering the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana club football competitions in Italy.

Lega Serie B, the governing body of the second tier of Italian football, has launched a tender process for the sale of its next set of broadcast rights.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has succeeded in suspending the tender launched by the Mediapro agency for rights to Serie A, the top division of Italian club football.

The Mediapro agency has put on the market seven packages of rights to Serie A, the top division of football in Italy.

Italian state broadcaster Rai has extended an agreement for rights to the International Motorcycling Federation’s (FIM) Motocross World Championship (MXGP).

Spanish agency Mediapro has formally sealed its contract for the domestic rights to Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, through a payment of around €64m ($78.9m), a move that is set to commence talks with broadcasters over carriage of matches from the league.

Italy’s antitrust authority, the AGCM, has approved a deal to award Spanish agency Mediapro the domestic rights for Lega Serie A, the country’s top football division.

Italian Minister for Sport Luca Lotti has unveiled a new distribution model for rights income generated by Lega Serie A, the top division of football in the country.

BeIN Media Group has acquired rights to Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, in the Middle East and North Africa, according to La Repubblica.

The International Motorcycling Federation’s (FIM) Endurance World Championship has agreed a rights deal with Italian motorcycle racing website Corsedimoto.com.

Spanish agency Mediapro said this week it wanted to create and distribute a Serie A league channel on the same model as the LaLiga channel it distributes in Spain. But Italian law may make this impossible.

Spanish agency Mediapro has pledged to collaborate with all Italian operators and open up new distribution windows after securing a deal for rights to domestic club football league Serie A, but pay-television broadcaster Sky has said it will fight to overturn the agreement.

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has today (Monday) accepted an offer for its domestic broadcast rights from the Mediapro agency.

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai has bounced back from losing out on rights to this summer’s Fifa World Cup by agreeing three important football deals.

Pay-television operator Sky Italia believes its acquisition of exclusive rights to motor racing’s Formula One world championship can expand its subscriber base, which has been stuck at 4.7m to 4.8m for more than five years.

Lega Serie A, the organising body of the top division of Italian club football, is set to enter into private negotiations over its media rights with Spanish agency Mediapro after talks with broadcasters failed to result in an agreement satisfying its goals for its next domestic contract.