Italian Serie A

Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset will bid for a new live free-to-air rights package being offered as part of Lega Serie A’s domestic tender process, according to Marco Giordani, chief financial o…

Lega Serie A, organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has reappointed financial services group Lazard to act in an advisory capacity as it seeks out an investor in its media business

Lega Serie A clubs have given their unanimous backing to the make-up of the league’s domestic broadcast rights tender with broadcasters able to submit offers across three, four or five seasons.

Lega Serie A has announced that its next domestic broadcast rights tender will launch by the middle of next month, with the governing body of the top division of Italian club football to make a decision…

Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM), the regulator and competition authority for the communications industry in Italy, has given the green light to Lega Serie A to sell domestic broadcast …

AC Milan chairman Paolo Scaroni has expressed bearishness about the Italian Serie A's impending media rights sales in contrast to comments made by Luigi De Siervo, the league's chief executive, to SportBusiness last …

Member clubs of Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, have backed proposed legislation that would allow for the extension of existing domestic rights deals with subscription broadcaster DAZN…

The Italian senate has approved legislation that would allow Italy’s Lega Serie A to extend its existing domestic broadcast rights deals with DAZN and Sky Italia for two more seasons, pending approval f…

Streaming platform SPOTV Now has acquired rights in Japan to the Italian Serie A in a deal covering at least the remainder of the 2022-23 season

Italian free-to-air digital satellite television provider Tivùsat has expressed its interest in carrying live coverage of Serie A during the next broadcast rights cycle for domestic football in Italy.

Pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports has been forced to cease broadcasts in France of Italian Serie A football matches featuring Atalanta owing to regulatory concerns over the club’s main sponsor, financial t…

Multi-platform subscription broadcaster DAZN has made assurances to Lega Serie A regarding improving its service in Italy and pledged partial refunds to subscribers affected by disrupted service last week

Italy’s Serie A will be banking on several factors to increase the value of its global media rights from the current level, but the opportunity to strike media rights deals for longer than three seasons will likely be the most influential.

AGCOM, the regulator and competition authority for the communications industry in Italy, has approved the guidelines for the sale of the next set of domestic broadcast rights to Serie A, the top division…

Anna Guarnerio, the experienced media rights executive who recently left the Infront agency, has taken up a role as head of international media rights at Lega Serie A

An amendment has been filed to the Melandri Law, the 2008 legislation which imposed the collective selling of media rights on professional sport in Italy, to extend the maximum duration of domestic broadcast…

Luigi De Siervo, chief executive officer of Lega Serie A, governing body of the top division of Italian club football, has urged the Italian government to allow the extension of the domestic broadcast…

DAZN has found itself at the centre of fresh complaints over its service in Italy following issues during its domestic coverage of the opening weekend of the 2022-23 Serie A season