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Sky Italia
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Mediaset in move to block free-to-air football initiative
Italy’s Mediaset has sent a warning to the country’s top-tier football league, Serie A, not…
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Sky Italia taps Linius for personalised TV
Pay TV operator Sky Italia has tapped technology outfit Linius Technologies to deliver a personalized…
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Italian court restores Sky Italia content restrictions
Three months after they were lifted, Italy’s top court has restored content restrictions on Sky…
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Sky Italia secures reversal of ban on exclusive Mediaset online deal
Sky Italia has secured a lifting of restrictions imposed on it by the Italian competition…
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Sky considering broadcasting Derby d’Italia on free-to-air amid coronavirus scare
First plays third when Inter Milan travels to Juventus on March 1 in one of…
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ViacomCBS and Sky Italia extend distribution deal to 12 channels
ViacomCBS and Sky Italia have announced a multi-year extension of their deal in Italy. The…
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Netflix launches on Sky Italia, announces co-production deal with Mediaset and opening of Italian offices
Sky Italia has added Netflix to its Sky Q platform. At launch, Netflix will be…
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Serie A delays Mediapro decision to October 14
The Italian football league has once again delayed its decision on Mediapro’s bid for Serie…
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Sky Italia launches dishless Sky Q
Sky Italia’s Sky Q Fibra service has officially launched. This offers subscribers who do not…
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Sky Italia chooses Harmonic cloud media processing for OTT
Sky Italia has tapped Harmonic to provide its cloud-native media processing software and content-aware encoding…
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Rai loses last appeal on Sky football decision
Italian public broadcaster Rai has lost a second appeal against an earlier court decision that…
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TIMVision to offer Serie A with Sky Now TV Ticket Sport agreement
Telecom Italia (TIM) has struck a deal with Sky Italia to add the latter’s Now…
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Sky Italia in talks to launch DAZN channel
OTT sports disruptor DAZN is reportedly in talks with Sky Italia to launch a channel…
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Serie A postpones decision on Mediapro offer
Italy’s Serie A has pushed back a decision on whether to accept Spanish broadcaster and…
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Italian court rejects Rai appeal over Champions League
An Italian court has rejected an appeal by public broadcaster Rai over a disputed right…
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Sky Italia confirms Ibarra as CEO
Sky Italia has confirmed that KPN chief executive Maximo Ibarra is to be its new…
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Departing KPN chief Ibarra tipped to head Sky Italia
Maximo Ibarra, who has been hotly tipped to replace Andrea Zappia as CEO of Sky…
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Mediaset denies ProSiebenSat.1 merger rumours, pulls sale of DTT unit
Mediaset and ProSiebenSat.1 have strongly denied press rumours that emerged last week that they are…
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Mediaset channels return to Sky Italia
Italian broadcaster Mediaset’s channels have returned to pay TV operator Sky Italia’s platform after an…
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Mediaset agrees sale of digital-terrestrial operations unit
Mediaset has agreed the sale of 100% of R2, the company that controls the technical…
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Mediaset agrees distribution of free channels on Sky platform
Italian broadcaster Mediaset has made its flagship service Canale 5 available on Sky’s satellite platform…
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Italian league rejects Mediapro’s €1.6bn guarantee for Serie A
Italy’s football league has rejected a €1.6 billion guarantee by Spanish broadcaster Mediapro that was…
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Mediapro Serie A deal hits hurdle
Mediapro’s successful bid for Italian Serie A football rights has hit a significant hurdle after…
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Mediaset combines pay TV activity with Sky in wide-ranging deal
Mediaset has struck a wide-ranging pay TV deal with Sky that puts a likely end…
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Sky Italia to launch fibre offering
Sky Italia has struck a long-term deal to launch a fibre-only broadband service from next…
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Italian watchdog green-lights Mediapro Serie A deal
The Italian competition watchdog, the AGCM, has approved the award of Serie A rights to…
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Spain’s Mediapro takes Italy’s Serie A rights from Sky and Mediaset
Spanish broadcaster Mediapro has secured the rights to Italian top-tier football from under the noses…
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Sky launching Sky Q in Italy
Sky is launching its Sky Q 4K UHD TV box in Italy. The advanced TV…
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Ginx Esports TV launches on Sky Italia
eSports channel Ginx Esports TV has launched in Italy on the Sky Italia platform. Ginx…
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Report: Sky plans high-speed Italian broadband service
Sky is reportedly planning to offer a high-speed broadband service in Italy in a bid…