Italy

Italian media group RCS has said it is likely to move its digital terrestrial sports television channel Gazzetta TV to an online-only model.

Sky renewed its deal for European club rugby and picked up Russian Premier League rights after a four-year hiatus.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences across the big five markets for the recently concluded Formula One World Championship

Gazzetta TV, the Italian sports channel operated by the RCS MediaGroup, could close down, according to multiple reports in the country.

Italian Serie A club AS Roma has partnered with digital consulting firm Omnigon to unveil what it claims to be the world’s first crowdsourced official football club website.

The rights in Italy to the Fifa World Cups in 2018 and 2022 have reverted to world football’s governing body after MP & Silva withdrew from its agreement to sell them, TV Sports Markets understands.

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has acquired exclusive rights in Italy to club football competition the English Premier League.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in selected European markets for motorcycling’s MotoGP World Championship

Antonio Campo Dall’Orto, the director general of Rai, has said the Italian state broadcaster is not interested in entering the pay-television sector.

Italian broadcaster Mediaset has secured a ruling from a court in Milan ordering “a major supplier” of internet services to prevent its customers from accessing it.rojadirecta.eu.

French digital-terrestrial television channel L'Équipe 21 has acquired rights to Serie B, the second tier of Italian club football.

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has acquired rights for football’s Russian Premier League.

Italian media company Mediaset has said it and its management "have always acted in full compliance with the regulations" after further details emerged this week about an investigation into the allocation of rights for Serie A, football's top division in Italy.

Infront Sports & Media has confirmed that the prosecutor of Milan opened an investigation on Friday against Marco Bogarelli, the president of the agency’s Italy division, and associates Andrea Locatelli and Giuseppe Ciocchetti.

Documents have been confiscated from Lega Serie A offices and several clubs in the top division of Italian football as part of an ongoing investigation by the country's financial police, the Guardia di Finanza, into the sale of domestic media rights, according to the Ansa news agency and the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper.

John Manning, research analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in key European markets for the evening session of this year’s IAAF World Athletics Championships.

Italian state broadcaster Rai has acquired rights for the Formula E electric car-racing world championship.

Lega Serie A has launched a new online streaming service to show coverage of the top division of Italian football.