Italy

A look at television production of football matches in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain

The revamped Golden League athletics series has still to win television coverage in two of Europe’s top five television markets.

Italy’s government is seizing upon the match-fixing scandal which has engulfed Serie A to push through new measures on television rights for football.

Football:  Italian pay-television operator Sky Italia acquired the pay-television rights to all 64 matches of the 2006 World Cup, 39 of which it will show exclusively, in a deal with the Infront agency.  Sky is paying an estimated €40m (£27.3m) for the rights.  The deal also includes the rights to this year’s Fifa Confederations Cup, the Fifa World Youth Championships and the 16 26-minute preview programmes produced by Infront (page 1).

Uefa, European football’s governing body, plans to expand the central selling of the television rights and sponsorship of the Uefa Cup

Dramatic tournament attracts best-ever audiences in four key markets

Rai, Mediaset and Sky will be the big losers if Serie A champions Juventus are relegated to Serie B next season as a result of the match-fixing scandal.

Mixed news for European domestic cup football audiences

Head of Italy office set to leave, Italian operation under review

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.

Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.

Rai wants to acquire the digital-terrestrial rights for the 2006 World Cup finals

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset could face a tough battle holding on to its lengthy media-rights deals with Italy’s top football clubs

Football: Dutch pay-broadcaster UPC acquired the pay-television rights for the Champions League from 2006 to 2009 (Page 7)

Football:  The Dentsu agency acquired the rights in Japan to all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014, including the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, in a deal with world football’s governing body.

Challenge by the MP & Silva to wrest long-term control of Serie A international rights from Sportfive

Top markets may be carved out from European television-rights deal for 2014 and 2016 Olympics

Dutch commercial broadcaster Talpa is showing matches from Italy’s Serie A league its website.