Italy

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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.

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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.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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”.

Cycling

Italy’s Bike Channel looks to expand abroad

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National team qualifier rights values tumble in Italy and Spain

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The Infront Sports & Media agency’s contract as media adviser to Italian football’s Serie A was approved as expected yesterday, but not without some of the usual drama which has come to mark the league’s assemblies.

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State broadcaster Rai has acquired the broadcasting rights in Italy to all the Italian national football team’s matches in the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup competitions.

Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera is closing in on a deal to acquire, or take a controlling stake in, the Mediaset Premium pay-television service of Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset, according to Italian media sources.

Rugby Union

The structure of the two new European club rugby competitions, the Rugby Champions Cup and the Rugby Challenge Cup, beginning in the 2014-15 season

SRO Motorsports, promoter of the GT Series motor-racing organisation, has agreed a host of new broadcast deals ahead of the start of the 2014 season.

Rugby Union

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in the home markets for this year’s Six Nations Championship L
Football

The guidelines for the sale of the media rights to Serie A, the top division of Italian football, for the three seasons from 2015-16 to 2017-18 have been approved by the country’s antitrust authority and communications authority.

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Italian media group Mediaset has secured a €700m ($966m) loan from three banks to help cover its expenditure on football rights, according to Il Sole 24 Ore.