Italy
Perform extends Serie A deal
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…
Sky Italia counts cost of Olympics
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.
Serie A clubs fail to agree TV rights revenue sharing solution
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.
Italy’s Serie A seeks new TV rights sharing solution
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…
YouTube in the fast lane
YouTube gearing up
Traffic v Full Play latest
Traffic v Full Play latest
MP & Silva achieves large fee increase in Korea
MP & Silva hit a home run in Korea with big increase
Ecclestone sees NBC as faster lane to growth in the US
Bernie hopes NBC can deliver bigger US platform for F1
Competition drives 2015 World Cup fees in France
TF1 pays big increase to hang on to Rugby World Cup
StageUp expands Italian basketball advisory role
The StageUp agency has been appointed to act as the media and marketing adviser for Lega Basket Serie A, the top league of basketball in Italy
Crisis forcing rights re-think
Recession weighing heavily on state broadcasters across southern Europe
TVE loses out, ERT holds on, as talks go to tip-off
TVE loses Euroleague rights to Marca TV but ERT hangs on to Greek league in late deals
Rai has second chance to be part of new RCS vision
Raid has to pedal harder to hold on to Giro d'Italia rights
BT Vision brings UK market back to life
BT Vision ambitions shake up UK rights market
Serie B TV to launch on Saturday
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…
Sportitalia renews Euroleague basketball for three more years
Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia has renewed its deal for Euroleague basketball for a further three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15
Mediaset Premium to cover Del Piero’s Sydney adventure
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.
Bundesliga teams up with Perform to find Italian audience
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…