Italy

Football

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is to ask the European Commission to reconsider the conditions under which it allowed the creation of pay-television operator Sky Italia
Football

Olympics: Indonesia’s six main free-to-air broadcasters will not cover the Athens Olympics despite the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union reducing its initial $1.35m (£730,000/€1.1m) asking price, working out at $225,000 for each broadcaster, to $400,000.

Football

Telecom Italia has taken the country by surprise in challenging for the digital-terrestrial rights for Serie A football.

Football

Italy’s football federation and football league are taking seriously detailed proposals for a major overhaul of professional football
Football

Giovanni Bruno, head of sport at Rupert Murdoch’s Italian pay-television platform Sky Italia, said this week that the company would fight to defend its dominance of the country’s pay-television market

Viewing rises in four out of the top five European television markets
Athletics

Channel set for December launch, once European Commission is assured that it has no links with News International or Sky Italia
Basketball

Talks for rights for Spanish league founder with five weeks of season already gone
Football

'Television Without Frontiers' directive does not permit advert while football match halves are underway

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE is enjoying a flying start for its coverage of motorcycling’s MotoGP this season, with the rivalry between young Spanish riders Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa

Football

The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, could face a heavy fine if found guilty of illegally blocking the sale of television rights
Basketball

The Deutscher Fussball-Bund, the German football federation, signed a five-year extension, ending 2009, to its television rights deal with German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF

Cricket

IMG set to win one, lose one as football talks close
Rugby Union

After a record-breaking 2007, television audiences for the 2008 Six Nations rugby union tournament fell in all four markets of the participating countries

Football

Infront, and other suitors, did not like the rights guarantees ISPR had committed to
Biathlon

The TV Sports Markets monthly survey of European sports viewing in December shows Champions League second-phase matches topping the tables in six of 19 countries surveyed.
Badminton

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against the Italian government over the use by the country’s broadcasters of mini-advertisements during the televising of football matches.

Football

MP Web expects to wait up to three years before seeing any significant return on its investment in Italian football’s third-generation mobile phone rights.