Italy

Basketball

Basketball: Australian commercial broadcaster Network Ten acquired the rights for the National Basketball League, Australia's top-tier basketball competition, in a five-year deal directly with the league…
Rugby Union

Big audiences followed the successful teams this year, with Grand Slam winners France landing the biggest domestic audience increase.

American Football

Athletics: The IEC in Sports agency agreed a number of deals for the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Doha

A look at the audiences pulled by the 2010 Winter Olympics around the world.

Athletics

The Diamond League athletics series has secured double the rights fee income of its predecessor the Golden League, with two big deals yet to be done.

American Football

American Football: Canadian commercial broadcaster CTV extended its existing deal for NFL matches, including the playoffs and the Super Bowl game, for four more years from 2010 to 2013
Boxing

Football dominated sports viewing in Europe’s top markets in 2009, with Uefa club competitions and World Cup qualifiers delivering the strongest audiences in the big five markets.

Football

Italian antitrust authority hits Lega Calcio with €102,000 fine.
Football

The major agencies are battling to add to their football federation portfolios in the countdown to the Euro 2012 qualifying draw next month.

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, …