Italy

Football

The Italian collective selling law, known as the Melandri law, needs updating, says Enzo Morelli, the lawyer who advised the Italian government on the drafting of the law in 2008. The Italian antitrust authority should not be interfering in how Serie A clubs share their media rights income, top lawyer says

Football

La Liga president Javier Tebas Medrano talks about the proposed collective selling law for football rights in Spain

Football

Italian state broadcaster Rai has acquired exclusive rights for the 2013 Uefa Euro U-21 national team football tournament
Football

The Swedish league explains why it sold its rights without a tender; TV4 Group looks to sell C More.

Football

Broadcasters worried by Pitch and MP & Silva joint venture but rivals say it's business as usual

Football

Aggressive Fox poses threat t Sport1 future in the Netherlands

Cycling

ASO, IMG and Infront all have big cycling ambitions. That could be bad news for UK's SweetSpot

Football

Lega Serie A, the top division of football in Italy, has criticised a recommendation by the country’s competition watchdog to overhaul the redistribution of media-rights income among clubs.
Football

Italy’s competition watchdog has called on the government to amend the law to make the redistribution of media-rights income among Serie A clubs more equitable.
Football

The Italian communications authority, l’Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni, will give its opinion tomorrow (Wednesday) on an investigation by the country’s competition watchdog, l’Autorità Garante…
Football

Italian football fans will be able to watch Spain’s La Liga on free-to-air television for the remainder of the current season after the rights were acquired by a pool of regional broadcasters which together c…
Football

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has acquired exclusive rights for German football’s Bundesliga in a two-year deal, from 2013-14 to 2014-15.

A write down of Mediaset’s sports rights has contributed to the Italian media company posting its first annual loss since going public in 1996, according to the Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Basketball

Lega Basket Serie A, the top league of basketball in Italy, has launched a sales process for its next cycle of domestic rights
Football

Pitch stockpiling of Italian rights presages arrival of Al Jazeera but maybe not until summer 2014
Basketball

ASO, as usual, holds the key to planned cycling shake-up
Baseball

MP & Silva chief explains why channel plan may work for Asia
Rugby Union

Pro12 renewing