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Football

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.

Football

Mediaset’s €700m Champions League gamble is part of Italo/Spanish pay-TV plan

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired media rights for the Motocross World Championship.

Football

Sky Italia has acquired rights for the Uefa Europa League European football club competition after it was confirmed yesterday (Monday) evening that the pay-television broadcaster had been dislodged by commercial broadcaster Mediaset as the rights-holder for the Uefa Champions League club tournament.

Football

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has acquired the rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition for the three seasons from 2015-16 to 2017-18 and intends to exploit the contract through its pay-television platform Mediaset Premium, according to La Repubblica.

Football

Infront guarantees the future income of Serie A but rights-fee growth is in the hands of clubs

Motorsport

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in Europe’s five largest markets for motor cycling’s MotoGP World Championship The
Football

International rights growth for Serie A could hold the key to Infront’s dilemma

Eurosport in difficult carriage negotiations with Sky Italia

Rugby Union

Discovery picks up Six Nations rights in Italy in surprise deal

Fox Sports buys Eredivisie rights in Italy

Multi-sport

Sky-Rai Olympic deal pleases IOC and Coni, but not ski federation

Football

Fox Italy says that Italian launch is 'unique opportunity' for Fox, not a defensive move against Al Jazeera

Football

Pitch International is exploring launching a premium football channel in Italy

Football

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences for the Uefa Champions League and Europa League in Europe’s big five markets U
American Football

Mediaset close to deal for NFL and other rights but Sportitalia needs fresh funds to carry on broadcasting

Rights for Six Nations, Pro12 and autumn internationals on Italian market at the same time

Football

·   Football: Polish public-service broadcaster TVP and commercial broadcaster Polsat agreed a joint-deal for the 2006 World Cup with the Infront agency worth €15m (£10.3m).  TVP
Football

Football: Greek public-service broadcaster ERT acquired the free-to-air rights for all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in a €9.5m (£6.5m) deal with the Sportfive agency. It is the first deal done for the championship.