Mediaset

Football
Italy

Italian Serie A football clubs have voted to approve the award of the next three-year cycle of media rights, from 2015-16 to 2017-18, with pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium’s parent company RTI securing the main packages.

Football
Italy

A vote by Serie A clubs on the award of packages of domestic rights for the next cycle of Italian football’s top tier has been postponed by two days, until tomorrow (Wednesday).
Spain

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica and media company Prisa have agreed to extend the deadline for media company Mediaset to exercise their right of first refusal on the agreement for Telefónica to acquire a 56-per-cent stake in Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus.
Spain

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has submitted a bid to acquire media company Mediaset’s 22-per-cent stake in Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus, according to the Economia Digital news website.

Football
Italy

The 20 clubs of Italy’s Serie A are trying to pick the best possible combination of bids from a rights auction marked by an extraordinary degree of tactical bidding that has thrown the process into confusion.

Football
Europe

There were mixed results for broadcasters of the 2013-14 Uefa Champions League in Europe's big five markets, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains
Spain

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica is in talks with Mediaset to acquire the media company’s 22-per-cent stake in Spanish pay-television operator Canal Plus.

Football
France

Cumulative free-to-air television audiences across the big five markets increase for this season's Uefa Europa League, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains
Spain

Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica has tabled a bid to acquire a majority stake in pay-television operator Canal Plus, a major sports broadcaster in Spain.

Cycling
Italy

Italy’s Bike Channel looks to expand abroad

Football
Italy

National team qualifier rights values tumble in Italy and Spain

Football
Italy

The Infront Sports & Media agency’s contract as media adviser to Italian football’s Serie A was approved as expected yesterday, but not without some of the usual drama which has come to mark the league’s assemblies.
Italy

Qatari pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera is closing in on a deal to acquire, or take a controlling stake in, the Mediaset Premium pay-television service of Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset, according to Italian media sources.

Football
Spain

Spanish public-service broadcaster TVE’s acquisition of rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition for the three seasons from 2012-13 to 2014-15 has been deemed legal by the Audiencia Nacional, the Spanish High Court.

Football
Italy

Italian media group Mediaset has secured a €700m ($966m) loan from three banks to help cover its expenditure on football rights, according to Il Sole 24 Ore.
Spain

Spanish broadcaster Mediaset, which owns the Telecinco and Cuatro commercial channels, has linked up with media company Mandarina Productions and journalists Javier Santos and Manu Carreño to establish a new production company.

Football
Italy

Serie A guidelines give no clues on key question about media rights sales

Football
Spain

The Liga de Fútbol Profesional, the Spanish football league, is in talks with the country’s government to change legislation that allows broadcasters to show goals from the league for free.