Italy

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport is considering taking legal action following the award of domestic rights for Serie A, the top division of football in Italy, on Friday.

Italian Serie A football clubs have voted to approve the award of the next three-year cycle of media rights, from 2015-16 to 2017-18, with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium’s parent company RTI securing the main packages.

A vote by Serie A clubs on the award of packages of domestic rights for the next cycle of Italian football’s top tier has been postponed by two days, until tomorrow (Wednesday).

Relaunched Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia will not just focus on football, according to director Michele Criscitiello.

Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia has challenged a report in yesterday’s Gazzetta dello Sport which said that rival pay-television platform Mediaset Premium could be awarded satellite rights to Serie A despite having been outbid by Sky.

The 20 clubs of Italy’s Serie A are trying to pick the best possible combination of bids from a rights auction marked by an extraordinary degree of tactical bidding that has thrown the process into confusion.

There were mixed results for broadcasters of the 2013-14 Uefa Champions League in Europe's big five markets, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

Italy’s top football league, Lega Serie A, could face a legal battle with pay-television platform Sky Italia should the league annul Sky bids made for two packages of live rights in yesterday’s auction.

Andrea Zappia, the chief executive of pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia, has complained that football media rights in Italy are disproportionately expensive and urged the national government to introduce legislation to help the growth of the pay-television sector.

Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia will relaunch on DTT in the country this (Monday) evening.

Cumulative free-to-air television audiences across the big five markets increase for this season's Uefa Europa League, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

Lega Serie A has launched an invitation to tender for the domestic rights to the top division of Italian football for three seasons, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

The Telecom Italia telecommunications company will show the 2014 Fifa World Cup through its TIMvision video-on-demand service after agreeing a sublicensing deal with the national team football tournament’s rights-holder in the country, pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia.

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB could seal a deal this summer to gain control of sister pay-television broadcasters, Sky Italia in Italy and Sky Deutschland in Germany, in a move that would consolidate Rupert Murdoch’s European pay-television assets.

Infront Sports & Media and Italy’s Lega Serie A have formalised their agreement confirming the agency as the league’s exclusive adviser for the national and international media rights to all its properties, including the top division of Italian football, with packages for a domestic rights tender set to be defined in the “forthcoming days”.

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