Italy’s top-flight football league Serie A is considering a purchase of Sky Italia. The move is understood to be one of two items being discussed at a meeting of the clubs, according to daily La Stampa. One is the next auction for TV rights and negotiations with investment funds and banks that have offered to […]
Dalet, a technology and service provider for media-rich organisations, and Italian partners EI Towers and CVE, have announced that the Lega Serie A Lissone-based production centre is using Dalet solutions to manage high-value sports content and production workflows. The top-flight Italian football league, which is one of the most valuable in the world in terms […]
OneFootball, the football media platform, has announced the launch of a connected TV app that will bring its library of video content to TV screens for the first time. OneFootball TV will allow the platform’s +100 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) to watch OneFootball’s full suite of video content from the a number of top […]
The European football market as a whole saw revenues grow by 10 per cent to €27.6 billion in 2020/21 (€25.2bn in 2019/20) despite an almost complete absence of fans from stadia during the season, according to the 31st Annual Review of Football Finance from Deloitte’s Sports Business Group. The strong recovery in revenue terms of […]
Reception problems for DAZN’s Italian Serie A football coverage on the opening weekend of the season have led to an outcry across Italy, including from the political world. Subscribers to the streaming platform had difficulty logging in to watch four matches of the new football season. As the problems became more widespread on August 14th, […]
In the upcoming season 2022-23, Supponor – a specialist in the virtual advertising industry for the past decade – will double the deployment of its fully software-based technology Supponor AIR compared to last season. Across Europe, North America, and Australia, Supponor AIR will be deployed in over 2,500 live sports events. This tremendous growth underlines […]
STARZPLAY, the MENA SVoD platform, has unveiled STARZPLAY Sports, an all-new streaming service dedicated to sports fans. Going live on August 12th, STARZPLAY Sports seeks to disrupt the sporting entertainment scene by bringing together the most popular live sport events under one platform. Subscribers to STARZPLAY Sports will be able to Italian football from Serie […]
Pay-TV operator Sky and streaming service DAZN have signed what they describe as a major new strategic agreement in Italy that makes the DAZN app available on Sky Q from the August 8th and also allows Sky subscribers to access the ZONA DAZN channel via the Sky decoder for a special DAZN rate, offering seven […]
Italian multiplay telco TIM has confirmed that the Group has reached an agreement with streaming service DAZN which allows the latter to distribute Serie A TIM football rights through any third parties. It says the deal will improve the options available to TIM customers, who will continue to watch matches through TimVision, which it describes […]
UAE public service broadcaster and media company Abu Dhabi Media (ADM) and SVoD service STARZPLAY have secured the exclusive rights to stream the premium Italian League (Serie A), Coppa Italia (Italy Cup), and Supercoppa Italiana (Italian Super Cup), for the next three seasons beginning 2022. The Italian Football Federation granted the rights after a competitive […]