Italy

Cycling
Italy

Urbano Cairo, the president of RCS MediaGroup, has said that commercial broadcaster La7 is interested in acquiring rights for the Giro d’Italia cycling race in Italy.

Football
Italy

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has said it still expects its contentious pay-television deal with French media company Vivendi to be completed and has maintained the ongoing impasse will not hamper its efforts in the forthcoming bidding process for two key football properties in Italy.

Football
Italy

Lega Serie A and Uefa are in a race to be first to sell their rights in Italy for the period 2018-19 to 2020-21.

Basketball
Italy

Sky Italia has strengthened its grip on the NBA in Italy by becoming the league’s sole media partner in its new two-season deal, and has done so without paying an increased rights fee.

Football
Europe

Online service provider StreamAMG has secured OTT rights in Europe to Serie B, the second tier of Italian club football.

Paralympics
France

Joseph Rivers, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in selected European markets for the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Basketball
China

The North American NBA basketball league has extended and expanded rights partnerships with Chinese IPTV provider BesTV and Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia.

Multi-sport
France

Vivendi remains hopeful that it can salvage an agreement with Italian broadcaster Mediaset over a disputed pay-television deal, according to the French media company’s chief executive Arnaud de Puyfontaine.

Football
United Kingdom

This is the first in a series of monthly interactive data reports in which TV Sports Markets focuses on the media-rights landscape for a specific sport: this month the focus is on European football
Football
Italy

New sports-rights agency Interregional Sports Group beat rival offers from betting rights specialists Sportradar and Perform to pick up domestic betting rights to Italy’s Serie A.

Olympic Games
United Kingdom

David Svenson, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in selected European markets for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Italy

Fininvest, the parent company of Italian broadcaster Mediaset, has filed a claim for damages of €570m ($643m) against French media company Vivendi for allegedly failing to comply with the terms of a takeover deal for pay-television division Mediaset Premium.
Italy

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has asked a court in Milan to enforce the sale of its pay-television division, Mediaset Premium, to French media company Vivendi.

Football
United Kingdom

Lukas Zajancauskas, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in selected European markets for the Uefa Euro 2016.

Multi-sport
France

Italian media company Mediaset has rejected French media group Vivendi’s revised offer to acquire its pay-television operation, Mediaset Premium, amid heightened tensions between the two parties.

Volleyball
Global

The Sportsman Media Group agency has agreed a four-season deal for the international audiovisual rights to the Lega Pallavolo Serie A Femminile, the top division of women’s club volleyball in Italy.

Multi-sport
Austria

Pan-European pay-television broadcast group Sky has today (Thursday) reported a record full-year operating profit of £1.558bn (€1.86bn/$2.05bn), breaking the £8bn revenue barrier in the UK and Ireland for the first time and setting its first-ever operating profit in Germany and Austria.

Multi-sport
France

French media group Vivendi has revealed a “more ambitious” offer in its bid to acquire the Mediaset Premium pay-television operation of media company Mediaset, one of the leading sports broadcasters in Italy.