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Belgium: Eleven extends Serie A rights

Eleven will continue to bring Serie A exclusively to fans in Belgium until 2023/24, following the completion of a new three-year deal. The agreement was brokered by Infront, Serie A’s exclusive international media rights partner. Eleven Belgium has been the home of Serie A since the platform’s launch in 2015 – bringing audiences comprehensive coverage […]

August 20, 2021

DAZN launches DTT channel and TV Box in Italy

DAZN has launched a new DTT channel in Italy that will broadcast Serie A football matches, in addition to its existing streaming service. The DAZN Channel is available on channel position 409 and subscribers will be able to watch seven weekly matches broadcast exclusively by the sports streaming specialist. The other three weekly matches (Saturdays […]

August 19, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Canada: fuboTV acquires Serie A rights

fuboTV, the sports-first live TV streaming platform, has acquired the exclusive rights for Coppa Italia and the exclusive English language rights for Serie A in Canada. The two new multi-year agreements bolster fuboTV’s position as the premier football streaming platform in Canada. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The Coppa Italia agreement includes a […]

August 19, 2021

Spain: Movistar+ extends Serie A rights

Movistar+ has extended its agreement with Serie A, the Italian top flight football league, for a further three seasons, through to 2023/24. In a press statement, Movistar+ said it has “established itself as a key ally in the sustainability of sport. Agreements with the leading national and international sports partners (UEFA, LaLiga, RFEF, ACB, NBA, […]

August 18, 2021

Spacety Luxembourg signs MoU for space projects

Luxembourg is already well-known for space and satellite activity. As well as being the home for satellite giant SES Astra, it is also the formal domicile for SES’s arch-rival Intelsat (although Intelsat is actually run from Washington, DC). Now Spacety Luxembourg is hoping to emulate its established colleagues. Italy-based T4i and Spacety Luxembourg have signed […]

August 17, 2021

StarTimes extends Coppa Italia & Supercoppa rights

African digital TV operator StarTimes has renewed exclusive rights to broadcast Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana for further three seasons in Sub-Saharan Africa. Per the contract with Lega Serie A, StarTimes extends the exclusive rights to the two Italian Cup football competitions in English, French, Portuguese and African indigenous languages to the 2023/2024 season. Coppa […]

August 5, 2021

Telespazio takes Eutelsat capacity

Italy’s Telespazio has taken extra satellite capacity from Eutelsat to serve the company’s rural broadband roll-out in Peru. The agreement sees Telespazio using Ku-band capacity operated on several transponders on the Eutelsat 117 West B satellite to bring telecommunications access to more than 1,300 underserved public sites, predominantly schools and health care facilities. Last month […]

July 29, 2021By Chris Forrester

Italy postpones MPEG-4 and DVB-T2 switchover

Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development has presented a roadmap in which it proposes the postponement of the DTT switchover from MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 from September 1st 2021 to the September 1st 2022. The decision comes after both the Italian government and broadcasters realized that it is not possible to meet the initial deadlines. According to […]

July 28, 2021From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Thales Alenia sees 35% growth

Satellite and avionics company Thales Alena Space (TAS, 67 per cent owned by Thales Group, 33 per cent by Leonardo of Italy) reports it is enjoying something of a sales boom. TAS says it is likely to hit a 35 per cent revenue growth rate during the 2020-2025 period and based on orders for commercial, […]

July 28, 2021By Chris Forrester

EU states face copyright rules action

Twenty-three EU countries, with the most prominent being France, Spain, Italy, risk being taken to court for delays in enacting EU copyright rules which seek to ensure a level playing field between the EU’s creative industries and online platforms, into national law. The European Commission has sent letters of formal notice, the first step of […]

July 27, 2021By Colin Mann