US global asset management firm Oaktree Capital Management has submitted a €1 billion-plus bid for the Italian Serie A TV rights, according to reports. Oaktree is seeking to take a significant stake in a new TV venture run by Italy’s Serie A football league, which would be the first time a major European sport would […]
Serie A could launch its own service to stream matches in Italy live if broadcasters currently bidding for rights do not improve their offers, the head of the top flight Italian football league has said. Domestic broadcast rights are a key source of revenue for Serie A clubs. The league has delayed a decision on […]
Football is back this weekend on Starzplay Sports as the new Serie A season kicks off on August 19th. All 380 matches will be broadcast across two channels dedicated to the league, Abu Dhabi Sports 1 & 2 Premium which are exclusively on Starzplay Sports. The first match on the opening day of the 2023/24 […]
Starzplay, the MENA VoD service, has launched Starzplay Fantasy Sports, a free-to-play Web 3.0 fantasy sports game. Starzplay Fantasy Sports, launched ahead of the new 2023/24 Serie A season, will be exclusively available on StarzplaySports. Players can make predictions around live Serie A matches and other regional leagues, from forecasting scores and possession percentages to […]
DAZN’s media rights strategy has fuelled continued growth and seen it soar to the tenth most-watched streaming video service in Spain for the first time, according to Consumer research from Ampere Analysis. It is also in eleventh place in Italy, where it holds exclusive rights to the majority of games for the flagship football league, […]
DAZN Italia has opened a Network Operation Centre (NOC) in Cologno Monzese (Milan) to monitor network performance and streaming quality. Before the setting up of the Italian NOC, these tasks were carried out by DAZN’s Network Operation Centre Global, which is located in Leeds, UK. Before a football match, the NOC controls the allocation of […]
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 […]