Italy

Athletics
Europe

Tennis: Pan-European cable and satellite broadcaster Eurosport extended its deal for coverage of the Australian Open for a further four years, from 2008 to 2011. Eurosport will also be the distribution agent for the media rights across Europe. The rights were previously held by the European Broadcasting Union, the umbrella group representing the region’s public-service broadcasters.

Football
Europe

France, Italy, UK and Nordic region the only European territories covered so far.
Europe

Sky Italia to re-launch digital multi-channel coverage this season.
American Football
Europe

Football: The German Football League awarded the rights for the Bundesliga in several three-year deals covering 2006-07 to 2008-09.

Football
Belgium

Versatel has jumped into the vanguard of an emerging movement by telecoms companies to seriously challenge broadcasters for live television rights.
Austria

Formula One Management to take over host-broadcasting from 2007 season.
Football
Europe

Italian Parliament votes for collective selling of football rights
Skiing
Austria

EBU set to get money back for Italian skiing rights.

Football
Europe

Serie A champions Juventus set to sign a deal with Italian state broadcaster Rai.

Football
Europe

Mediaset and Serie A’s Juventus sign €248 million deal

Football
Europe

Sky Italia this week threatened legal action for breach of contract
Europe

The collapse last year of Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula 1 digital “super signal” service was thought likely to end the coverage of the sport on pay-television.