Italy

Stakeholders in the Italian sports media business have welcomed the approval of a new law against online content piracy

Lega Serie A is expected to follow its tender for the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana with private negotiations, similar to its current sales process for Serie A rights, industry sources have told SportBusiness Media.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has announced rights renewals for a slew of sports properties, including the Uefa European Championship, the NBA, rugby union’s Six Nations and sailing’s America’s Cup. S

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired free-to-air rights to the 37th America’s Cup.

Lega Serie A has extended private negotiations with three broadcasters interested in its domestic rights from 2024-25 onwards, after refusing to accept the offers on the table

The Italian arm of sports subscription and media company DAZN has signed an agreement with Italian ticketing company Vivaticket, through which customers will be able to buy tickets for football matches…

Sports subscription service and media company DAZN has called on the Italian parliament to speed up the introduction of a new bill targeting piracy, following the release of a report outlining that illegal…

Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie B (LNPB) has terminated its rights deal with Helbiz, the US-based micro-mobility company, in a move that is set to mean Sky Italia and DAZN will be required to increase…

The recent bids for domestic media rights to Serie A from 2024-25 came in at less than €600m ($651m) per season, according to Aurelio De Laurentiis, the outspoken president of newly-crowned champions Na…

Lega Serie A is to move into a period of private negotiations with three broadcasters after bids submitted for domestic rights from 2024-25 onwards were rejected

Sky Italia doubled its fee for Uefa Champions League rights to ensure it held Uefa club competition rights in the next cycle, putting it in a strong position ahead of the current Serie A domestic media rights sales process.

Fifa has extended its media rights agreement for the 2023 Women’s World Cup with the European Broadcasting Union, ensuring the tournament will be screened in the major markets of France, Germany, Italy, S…

Saturday evening’s Uefa Champions League final registered the highest free-to-air audience in Italy since 2017 as Inter Milan lost out to Manchester City.

Italian public broadcaster Rai has announced the death of Pier Francesco Forleo, head of its sports rights department