Italy

The RCS Sport agency, organiser and commercial rights-holder of the Giro d’Italia, has agreed a deal with the Velon umbrella group of WorldTour cycling teams under which on-bike footage will be delivered for this year’s edition of Italy’s ‘Grand Tour’ event, which commences tomorrow (Saturday).

Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports Latin America has agreed a three-year extension to its exclusive rights deal for Serie A, the top division of Italian football.

The Infront Sports & Media agency has said the International Ice Hockey Federation’s 2015 World Championship will be broadcast in close to 160 territories and is expected to surpass the audience figures for last year’s event.

Broadcasters in Mexico, France and Italy have acquired rights for the world welterweight title boxing clash between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which is scheduled to take place this Saturday night in Las Vegas, US.

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia is maintaining “informal contacts” with media group Mediaset after being rebuffed in an approach to acquire pay-television business Mediaset Premium, according to Reuters.

Broadcast platforms from Italy, Canada, Japan, Russia and Germany have agreed deals to provide coverage of the International Paralympic Committee’s 2015 Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships A-Pool.

Italian state broadcaster Rai is the strong favourite to land the rights for Euro 2016, which were put out to tender this week, and is expected to do so at a substantial discount.

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has struck a partnership with telecommunications company Telecom Italia (TIM) under which a new IPTV service will be launched featuring its sports content.

Italian state broadcaster Rai has retained its rights to the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana club football tournaments after agreeing a new three-year deal, from 2015-16 to 2017-18, with Lega Serie A.

European football’s governing body Uefa has announced the invitation to tender process for media rights to two editions of its European Championship national team competition will be launched in Italy and Germany next week.

Italian state broadcaster Rai has agreed a four-year extension to its rights deal with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

Italy’s Lega Serie A will enter into talks on Monday with three bidders for media-rights packages in relation to the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana club football competitions, according to the IlVelino.it website.

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia said this week that it was “concerned and frustrated” that a continuous flow of negative developments in Serie A was undermining the credibility of the league.

Interview with Jacques Raynaud, executive vice president of sports channels and advertising sales, Sky Italia, on the recent financial crisis which caused two Parma matches to be cancelled.

The Foundation for General Mutuality in Professional Team Sports responds to questions about reported abuses of Serie A media-rights income destined for youth and grassroots football and infrastructure projects.

Italian Serie A football clubs Juventus and Roma have opted to terminate contracts for their archive media rights with the Infront Sports & Media agency in favour of agreeing new deals with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.