Italy

Baseball

Baseball: America’s Major League Baseball signed seven-year deals with US national network Fox, extending its present contract but for a reduced amount of coverage, and with cable network TBS for a package of Sunday and post-season games.

Football

Football: Italian public-service broadcaster Rai agreed a deal with the Sportfive agency for the rights to football’s Euro 2008 tournament.

Cycling

Cycling: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions renewed its deal for the Tour de France.

Football

Television viewing for the 2006 World Cup in Germany smashed viewing records in several countries in Europe and elsewhere.

Football

BSkyB subscribers increase by 77,000 as last quarter sees pay-television growth in three of five European markets

Football

World Cup winners Italy could get a 20-per-cent increase in television-rights fees.

Football

Italian public-service broadcaster Rai was last month fined €230,000
Football

The Italian football league, Lega Calcio, is planning radical changes to how Serie A matches are broadcast
Football

Leagues which sell rights collectively still liable to legal challenge by clubs which want to sell rights individually
Football

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish
Football

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

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

Mediaset paid an overall €38 million a season for the digital-terrestrial and television-to-mobile rights
Football

Football fans in Italy will be able to watch live, top-quality coverage of Champions League and Serie A matches on their mobile phones
Football

Rai backs up its claim that it struck an in-principle deal with the league
Football

Rai has made an astonishing attack on the integrity of the Italian football league and its president, Adriano Galliani
Football

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

Football

The Sportfive agency has begun talks in Italy for the television rights for football’s Euro 2008