Italy

Football

Chinese internet operator Le Sports has today (Thursday) confirmed a wide-ranging partnership with Italian Serie A football team AC Milan which includes carriage of the club’s television channel.

Football

The Infront Sports & Media and MP & Silva agencies both reacted angrily yesterday (Sunday) to reports which appeared in the Italian press over the weekend regarding the handling of the 2014 auction for Serie A media rights and alleged occult payments to help out certain Italian football clubs.

Football

Italian Serie A football team Inter Milan has entered into a partnership with Chinese internet company Le Sports for carriage of its club television channel.

Football

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has agreed a deal to acquire a package of football rights previously held by digital terrestrial sports television channel Gazzetta TV, according to Milano Finanza.

Football

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia and the Mediaset media company have been accused by the country’s antitrust authority, the AGCM, of violating competition law by dividing up rights to domestic football’s Serie A top division and excluding new entrants, according to a report by Sunday newspaper La Repubblica.

Football

North American sports broadcaster One World Sports has struck a multi-year deal to begin carrying Juventus TV, the in-house television channel operated by Italian Serie A football club Juventus.

Football

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in France to the Coppa Italia club football knockout tournament.

Skiing

Markus Waldner, the men’s alpine race director at the International Ski Federation (FIS), has said that the governing body will ban the use of drones at events until further notice after a machine carrying a camera nearly hit an athlete during a World Cup event in Italy.

Football

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

Rugby Union

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

Motorsport

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

Multi-sport

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

Football

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.

Football

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.

Football

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

Motorsport

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

Football

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.