Italy
Rivals react to Sky growth with new football offers
BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets
Doing well should lift TV fees
World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.
Rai rapped for mini-spots again
Italian public-service broadcaster Rai was last month fined €230,000
Serie A to follow Premier League’s recipe for success
The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, is planning radical changes to how Serie A matches are broadcast
EC ignores sports lobby on collective selling of rights
Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually
Football TV revolution brings seismic shift in top markets
Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish
Germany and UK find life is cheaper without EBU
Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights
Slow regulator is ‘powerless’ over mobile deals
The Italian communications authority, Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni, admitted this week that it will have difficulty regulating the market for television-to-mobile
How Mediaset got fast cash return
Mediaset paid an overall €38 million a season for the digital-terrestrial and television-to-mobile rights
Mobile Mediaset money-maker
Football fans in Italy will be able to watch live, top-quality coverage of Champions League and Serie A matches on their mobile phones
Rai’s blow-by-blow story of what happened in league talks
Rai backs up its claim that it struck an in-principle deal with the league
Rai attacks ‘bad faith and illicit action’ of Italian league
Rai has made an astonishing attack on the integrity of the Italian football league and its president, Adriano Galliani
TV RIGHTS CLIPS 1: Formula One, football, others
Formula One: Formula One Management signed new deals in four of the sport’s major markets, renewing deals in Italy with public-service broadcaster Rai, in Brazil with TV Globo, in Australia with Channel Ten and in Russia signing a deal with a new partner, the RTL-owned Ren TV
Italian TV will fight asking price for Euro 2008
The Sportfive agency has begun talks in Italy for the television rights for football’s Euro 2008
F1 lifts fees in four major markets, even flagging Italy
Formula One has signed long-term deals in four major markets – Italy, Brazil, Australia and Russia – securing rights-fee increases across the board.
Rai sues Lega Calcio over award of Serie A rights
Italian state broadcaster Rai has surprised the domestic television and sports market by sticking to its threat
Italian U-turn on joint selling
The Italian antitrust authority has made a historic U-turn on the collective selling of television rights
Ligue’s five-year plan to lure telecom bidders
League appeals to competition authorities for permission to sell rights for five years