Italy
Eurosport pays big to save grand slams but plays it cool with WTA
Eurosport hangs on to French and US Opens - but at a price
Serie A doubles its money with Fox in Latin America
Serie A makes the most of heated Latin American market
Two leagues ‘too much’ for emerging Indian market
'One league good, two leagues bad' for embryonic Indian football market, says IMG
ESPN and DirecTV team up to win Liga rights in Latin America
Competition in Brazil helps Spanish Liga net 70% increase
Big three players at the crossroads after changes at the top
Agencies at the crossroads
Rai lowball offer considered “ridiculous” by Serie A clubs
Italian state broadcaster Rai’s offer for the free-to-air highlights rights to Serie A was so low as to be considered “ridiculous” by the league, Lega Serie A, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The
Sportitalia acquires Italian national basketball rights
Italian digital sports channel Sportitalia acquired exclusive rights for the Italian men’s national basketball team’s home matches in a two-year deal with the Federazione Italiana Pallacanestro, the Ita…
Lega studies fresh Serie A rights bids after Rai delay
The Italian football league, Lega Serie A, is studying the bids it received today, February 3, for four packages of media rights
Sky Italia attacks Serie A clubs as cold weather hits matches
Jacques Raynaud, vice-president of the Sky Sport channels at Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia, criticised clubs in Serie A, the top tier of the Italian football league, for failing to prevent…
Lega extends rights bid deadline by a week
The Italian football league, Lega A Serie A, has extended its bid deadline for four media rights packages by one week
Pitch’s confidence in English football provides boost for FA
FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession
Lega meets bidders as Sky enjoys Sunday record
The Italian football league, Lega Serie A, today met the broadcasters who are bidding for media rights which the league was unable to sell when it auctioned its main domestic rights last September
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 3: Horse racing, ice hockey, MMA, Olympics, skiing and more
Horse Racing: Irish public-service broadcaster RTÉ agreed a two-year rights deal, for 2012 and 2013, with Horse Racing Ireland and the Association of Irish Racecourses, for races in Ireland.
EBU well placed to tighten its grip on Fifa World Cup rights
Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 2: Football: Champions League, Serie A, Bundesliga and more
Football: Uefa agreed deals in the Netherlands for the Champions League and Europa League for three years from 2012-13 to 2014-15
FA expects modest growth in depressed Europe
France could be the key to FA hopes of European boost
Serie A defends tender process
Lega enjoys 30% increase and rejects attacks on its tender
Strikers force Italian horse racing channel off the air
Striking workers from Italy’s horse racing industry on Monday stormed the headquarters of the country’s racing channel, Unire TV, forcing the channel off the air. Th