Italy

Basketball

Ficot to quit Sportfive for personal reasons ... NBA 'good business' for MCS ... Italian FA set to survive Rai cuts ... Chello's Sport1 Golf eyes expansion
Football

Increases in Champions League rights fees in US and Caribbean, Italy and Middle East.
Football

Italian antitrust authority threat to be ignored if Sky makes good enough offer.
Tennis

First serious UK rights battle between ESPN and BSkyB.

Dorna Sports MD Manel Arroyo speaks exclusively to TV Sports Markets about audiences, distribution strategy, new media and the future of the series with Rossi's retirement looming.

Cycling

Rai crisis raises doubts over future of Rai Trade ... ITV gambles on England ... Tough times for handball ... Crafty Fox waits for rights
Football

Uefa looks to conclude Euro 2012 talks with BBC and ITV, accepting that there will be no changes to UK listed events legislation before 2012.
Football

Lawyers say investigation by Italian antitrust authority into Sky Italia World Cup deals amounts to warning to other rights-holders not to sell exclusive rights to Sky.
Athletics

Athletics: Swiss-based agency Sports Extra Time acquired rights in Sub-Saharan Africa for the World Athletics Series, the series of International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) events including…
Football

Vibrant pay-TV market draws Uefa to Italy to kick off Champions League, Europa League renewals.
Skiing

Ski federations and the Infront agency are renewing deals with public-service broadcasters gripped by recession.

American Football

Brazilian clubs seeking $1.2bn in next TV deal ... NBA on Orange and Sky ... NFL happy despite pay-TV drop ... Froch fight on Primetime TV

Football

Big increases in the US and Japan the highlights of a successful round of sales for Traffic Sports.
Football

Most powerful federations table a more modest centralisation proposal, and agencies try to undermine Uefa with long-term deals.
Basketball

Sportfive Olympics sales start with the Kremlin ... NBA struggling in France and Italy ... Best-ever Ryder Cup for Sky
Basketball

Basketball: Rights agency MP & Silva sold rights to the Spanish professional basketball league, the ACB, to Italian pay-television platform Dahlia TV and French pay-television operator Canal Plus covering…
Football

Sales of Uefa Champions League and Europa League rights will kick off in October, in Latin America and the Middle East, followed by Italy.
Football

Football: Italian league body Lega Calcio agreed a number of rights deals covering the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons