Italy

The Telecom Italia telecommunications company has struck a deal for its Cubovision video-on-demand service to carry the Sky Sport F1 pay-television channel.

Multi-sport

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews audiences across selected European markets for the Winter Olympics in Sochi
Football

Serie A guidelines give no clues on key question about media rights sales

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2013 across 10 of the world’s biggest media markets E
Football

Mediaset’s €700m Champions League gamble is part of Italo/Spanish pay-TV plan

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired media rights for the Motocross World Championship.

Football

Sky Italia has acquired rights for the Uefa Europa League European football club competition after it was confirmed yesterday (Monday) evening that the pay-television broadcaster had been dislodged by commercial broadcaster Mediaset as the rights-holder for the Uefa Champions League club tournament.

Football

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired the rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition for the three seasons from 2015-16 to 2017-18 and intends to exploit the contract through its pay-television platform Mediaset Premium, according to La Repubblica.

Football

The Lega Serie A assembly, comprising the 20 clubs of the top division of Italian football, has approved the guidelines for the sale of media rights for three seasons, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

Football

Uefa, football’s European governing body, has launched a sales process for the rights in Italy to European national team qualifiers ahead of the Euro 2016 and Fifa 2018 World Cup national team tournaments.

Motorsport

A championship dominated by one driver, now four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, and the continued shift of live race coverage from free-to air to pay-television coincided with a drop in average…
Football

Infront guarantees the future income of Serie A but rights-fee growth is in the hands of clubs

The Fox International Channels (FIC) broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has launched Fox Sports 2 HD, a new sports pay-television channel in Italy.

Pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport will remain on Italian pay-television platform Sky Italia beyond the new year, according to the Broadband TV News website.

Football

Lega Serie A clubs have approved the retention of the Infront Sports & Media agency as the media-rights sales adviser to the top division of Italian football.

The Fox International Channels (FIC) broadcast subsidiary of media company 21st Century Fox has acquired rights in Italy for motor racing’s World Rally Championship, according to various reports in the country.

Italian pay-television platform Sky Italia has failed to reach a new carriage deal with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Football

Premier League gets tough, even with Murdoch, to protect UK investments of Sky and BT