Italy

Italy’s antitrust authority is in a race against time clear satellite broadcaster Sky Italia’s €1.15 billion deal for Serie A rights.
Football

Football: German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF acquired the free-to-air rights for a further nine matches from next year’s Fifa World Cup in South Africa in a sublicensing deal with pay-broadcaster S…
Football

Increase in European media rights fees a sign of increasing value of Premier League even in Europe's developed markets.

Golf

Golf: UK pay-broadcaster BSkyB acquired the rights for the US PGA Tour in an eight-year deal from 2010 to 2017, paying an estimated $90m
Football

Conto TV scored a victory this week when Serie B presidents agreed to re-tender the rights to the second division in a manner which would allow smaller broadcasters a greater chance to compete.

Formula One television audiences in Spain and Italy fell drastically this year, reflecting disappointing performances by Spanish driver Fernando Alonso and Italian car manufacturer Ferrari.

The decision this week to suspend the media rights deal between Lega Calcio and Sky Italia was based on a questionable – and probably flawed – interpretation of European competition law, according to legal experts.
Football

The flourishing Middle East sports-rights market could hold the key to the MP & Silva agency getting a return on its investment in the international rights to Serie A.

Football

Football: Lega Calcio, the body representing Italian football’s top clubs, agreed a number of deals for the domestic and international rights for the country’s top two divisions, Serie A and Serie B, …
Football

Lega Calcio moved this week to calm concerns about the transparency of its tender process for the international rights to Serie A.
Basketball

Sky Italia is set to drop its coverage of Formula One motor racing in what would be the latest – and most high-profile – cut in its sports-rights spending.
Basketball

Mediapro is close to finalising domestic mobile rights deals for Spanish football’s La Liga, the first such deals to be agreed after a three-year hiatus caused by the football war between Mediapro and Sogecable.
Football

No UK broadcasters were willing to show England’s final 2010 World Cup qualifier against the Ukraine but national team matches are still a sure-fire guarantee of big television audiences.

Athletics

Action Sports: Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal with the Alliance of Action Sports, covering live rights in Europe for the Summer and Winter Dew Tours, for another five years
Basketball

Basketball’s Euroleague is poised to agree a three-fold increase in rights fees in Greece, becoming the latest rights-holder to benefit from renewed pay-television competition in the country
Football

The international rights for Italy’s Serie A will be split into three territories – Europe, Asia and the Middle East and the rest of the world.
Athletics

European broadcasters will be scrutinising ratings for last month’s World Athletics Championships as they weigh up their bids for the rights of future championships.

Europe’s top satellite pay-television operators will be casting envious glances at the UK’s BSkyB, after it enjoyed what analysts described as a “flawless quarter” to end-June.