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Italian state broadcaster Rai has agreed a four-year extension to its rights deal with the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

Italy’s Lega Serie A will enter into talks on Monday with three bidders for media-rights packages in relation to the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana club football competitions, according to the IlVelino.it website.

Italian state broadcaster Rai has acquired exclusive rights to the European Volleyball Confederation’s (CEV) 2015 men’s and women’s European Championships.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews the most-watched events of 2014 in France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

Italy’s Serie A agreed deals covering free-to-air highlights, internet and mobile highlights and clip rights for the next rights cycle, from 2015-16 to 2017-18, in deals agreed just before Christmas.

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at audiences in key European markets for the 2014 Tour de France

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at television audiences in the major European markets and America for the 2014 Fifa World Cup

National team qualifier rights values tumble in Italy and Spain

State broadcaster Rai has acquired the broadcasting rights in Italy to all the Italian national football team’s matches in the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and the 2018 Fifa World Cup competitions.

SRO Motorsports, promoter of the GT Series motor-racing organisation, has agreed a host of new broadcast deals ahead of the start of the 2014 season.

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews audiences across selected European markets for the Winter Olympics in Sochi

SRG faces no competition to hold on to F1 in Switzerland

Pauline McVey analyses domestic audiences on free-to-air television for the Fifa World Cup 2014 qualifiers in Europe’s five biggest markets, and in Portugal L

Tour de France commits early to EBU despite interest from agencies and pay-TV companies

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in Europe for the last month’s World Athletics Championships in Moscow T

Petrucci intervention helps Fiba close late late Rai deal

Discovery picks up Six Nations rights in Italy in surprise deal

As Brazil delivers increased audiences for the Fifa Confederations Cup in Europe’s big five markets, Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, runs the numbers T