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Cycling

Union Cycliste Internationale president Brian Cookson said it sold its rights to the European Broadcasting Union as the EBU was “the best player in the market to place our events on free-to-air broadcasters across Europe”.

Football

The investigation by Italy’s antitrust authority into the sale of Serie A rights, which led to €66m ($75m) in fines being handed down this month, centred on negotiations in a four-day period in June 2014 after bids had been made.

Football

Italy’s antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante del Mercato e della Concorrenza, has issued fines totalling €66m ($75.3m) in the case surrounding the 2014 sale of rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic football.

Football

Germany’s football federation is set to earn about 35 per cent more from domestic media rights to its knockout cup competition, with deals to be announced in the coming weeks.

Football

Infront Sports & Media’s Italian football business activities are facing a three-pronged attack which could have major long-term repercussions for the agency’s revenues and undermine its behind-the-scenes influence in the country.

Football

Italy’s antitrust authority has notified Lega Serie A, Infront Sports & Media, Mediaset and Sky Italia that their behaviour during the auction process for Serie A media rights constituted a breach of European competition law.

Football

The Chinese government has intervened in the sale of media rights to the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups in the country, ensuring a deal will eventually be struck with state broadcaster CCTV.

Skiing

Markus Waldner, the men’s alpine race director at the International Ski Federation (FIS), has said that the governing body will ban the use of drones at events until further notice after a machine carrying a camera nearly hit an athlete during a World Cup event in Italy.

Ice Hockey

The Infront Sports & Media agency has agreed a three-year deal to become the international media rights partner of annual invitational ice hockey competition the Spengler Cup.

Skiing

The Infront Sports & Media agency has extended its media production deal with the International Ski Mountaineering Federation for the 2015-16 season.

Skiing

Norwegian public-service broadcaster NRK renewed two vital skiing rights deals last month, agreeing to pay decent increases for both.

Handball

SportA, the agency that represents German public-service broadcasters ARD and ZDF, has acquired exclusive rights to the 2016 and 2018 men’s EHF European Handball Championships, which will be held in Poland and Croatia respectively.

Football

Infront Sports & Media has confirmed that the prosecutor of Milan opened an investigation on Friday against Marco Bogarelli, the president of the agency’s Italy division, and associates Andrea Locatelli and Giuseppe Ciocchetti.

Football

The Infront Sports & Media agency is to collaborate with Vizrt, a company that provides content production, management and distribution tools to the digital media industry, to launch a new virtual overlay solution.

Skiing

The Infront Sports & Media agency retained its position as the dominant supplier of skiing rights last month, agreeing international rights renewals with seven national federations.

Football

Twelve companies have expressed an interest in acquiring rights for the DFB-Pokal German knockout club football tournament.

Armin Meier is to step down as managing director of InfrontRingier Sports & Entertainment Switzerland, the Infront Sports & Media agency’s 50-per-cent joint venture with Swiss media company Ringier.

Football

The German Football Association (DFB) has agreed a four-year extension to its rights contract with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport and has launched a tender process for domestic rights to its DFB-Pokal club competitions.