Italy

TVE loses Euroleague rights to Marca TV but ERT hangs on to Greek league in late deals

Raid has to pedal harder to hold on to Giro d'Italia rights

BT Vision ambitions shake up UK rights market

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…

Dip in second-party World Cup qualifier values in key markets

YouTube football deals good timing for Premier League

Why Sky Italia dropped the Spanish and German leagues

Uefa close to central deal

How Eredivisie deal fits into Fox expansion strategy

Italian volleyball goes global

The B4 Capital agency has acquired international broadcast distribution rights for Lega Serie B, the second tier of football in Italy, for three seasons, from 2012-13 to 2014-15

Rai International, the international channel of Italian state broadcaster Rai, will be able to continue with its Sunday-afternoon coverage of the country’s top football league, Serie A, after reaching a…

Italian pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has so far failed to renew its rights deals for the top Spanish and German football leagues, with the new season about to get under way in the two countries