Italy

Football

Italy’s top-tier Serie A football clubs will meet on Friday to discuss the issue of how to maintain the value of the league’s domestic broadcast rights and increase revenue from overseas rights.

Infront Italy was appointed as media rights-adviser to Serie A for six years, from 2010-11 to 2015-16, after beating rival proposals from the IMG Media and Sportfive agencies
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Petrucci intervention helps Fiba close late late Rai deal

Rugby Union

Discovery picks up Six Nations rights in Italy in surprise deal

Football

IMG and Sportfive to challenge Infront for lucrative Serie A adviser role

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Football

The IMG agency has contacted Maurizio Beretta, the president of Lega Serie A, to express an interest in becoming the Italian top-tier football division’s new media-rights sales adviser, according to the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Rugby Union

The Discovery Italia arm of US media group Discovery Communications has acquired the exclusive media rights in Italy to the Six Nations rugby union tournament.

Football

Italian state broadcaster Rai has lost its appeal against a court ruling that it should cease encrypting its services, including coverage of Italian national team football games, on pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia.

Rugby Union

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has agreed a deal to televise all home games for Italy’s Pro12 rugby union clubs, Benetton Treviso and Zebre, during the 2013-14 season of the competition.

Football

Rai will struggle to retain rights to Italy national football team matches due to the spiralling rights fee, according to Michele Anzaldi, secretary of the supervisory committee at the Italian state broadcaster.

Football

Maurizio Beretta, the president of Lega Serie A, the top division of football in Italy, has said that questions over the role of the Infront Sports & Media agency as an adviser to the league on media-rights…

Fox Sports buys Eredivisie rights in Italy

Football

As Brazil delivers increased audiences for the Fifa Confederations Cup in Europe’s big five markets, Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, runs the numbers T
Football

Seven clubs from Lega Serie A in Italy have raised questions over the future role of the Infront Sports & Media agency as adviser to the league on media-rights sales.

Football

New Italian pay-television channel Fox Sports has acquired rights for the Eredivisie, the top division of football in the Netherlands.

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has signed a distribution deal with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Football

The Fox International Channels broadcast subsidiary of media conglomerate News Corporation has reached an agreement with Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset to distribute its new Fox Sports channel.

Multi-sport

Sky-Rai Olympic deal pleases IOC and Coni, but not ski federation