Italy

Digital media specialists Perform Group have extended their deal to distribute online free-to-view highlights and news clips covering Italy’s top football league, Lega Serie A, for a further three years, f…

Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia’s quarterly operating profit fell from $119 million (€92 million) year-on-year to $12 million in the three months to September 30, 2012.

Clubs in Italy’s top football league, Serie A, were split yesterday about how revenue from media-rights sales should be divided for the coming three seasons, 2012-13 to 2014-15.

Representatives from the 20 clubs in Italy’s top football league, Serie A, were meeting late this afternoon, November 5, to attempt to thrash out a new sharing model for media rights revenues for the c…

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Lega Serie B, Italy’s second-tier football league, will launch its own pay-television channel, Serie B TV, on Saturday, showing nine live matches per week and targeting €10 million ($13 million) per sea…

Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia has renewed its deal for Euroleague basketball for a further three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

Italian pay-television broadcaster Mediaset Premium has acquired rights for the A-League, the top division of football in Australia, following Alessandro del Piero’s move to Sydney FC.

DFL Sports Enterprises, the commercial arm of the German football league, the Bundesliga, has agreed a deal with digital sports specialists Perform for live and highlights coverage of the 2012-13 season…