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DAZN, TIM hit with fines as AGCM closes Serie A rights investigation
Italy’s antitrust regulator, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has issued fines totalling more than €8m ($8.95m)
Antitrust authority gives Serie A backing for five-season deals
Lega Serie A, organising body of the top division of Italian club football, has secured further regulatory approval for its impending domestic broadcast rights tender after guidelines were given the green…
Italy’s antitrust watchdog analysing five-year Serie A rights sales
The Italian antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has launched a consultation on the guidelines for Lega Serie A’s proposal to extend its domestic media rights cycl…
Antitrust watchdog approves Serie A’s domestic rights guidelines
The Italian antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has approved Lega Serie A’s guidelines for the sale of its next set of domestic broadcast rights.
Competition regulator extends investigation into DAZN-TIM Serie A deal
Italy’s antitrust regulator, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has said its investigation into Telecom Italia’s (TIM) agreement with OTT sports subscription service DAZN for …
Sky Italia free to pursue exclusive internet rights after antitrust ruling
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has succeeded in securing an early overturn of a ruling that has prevented it from acquiring exclusive internet rights to sports properties for almost three years
Sky Italia fined €1m for ‘misleading’ Serie A coverage information
Italy’s antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has fined pay-television broadcaster Sky €1m ($1.1m) fo
Sky Italia ‘submits latest request’ to overturn internet rights ban
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia has submitted a request to Italy’s antitrust authority (AGCM) to overturn a ban on acquiring exclusive internet rights to sports properties, it has been reported.
No precautionary measures from competition body to block TIM-DAZN deal
Italy’s antitrust regulator, the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), will not impose precautionary measures on Telecom Italia’s (TIM) contentious agreement with sports subscription serv…
TIM makes antitrust complaint over Sky’s Serie A content marketing
The regulatory battle over the forthcoming rights cycle to Serie A, the top division of Italian club football, has continued with Telecom Italia (TIM) filing an appeal with antitrust authorities concerning…
Italian antitrust body commences probe into DAZN-TIM Serie A deal
Telecom Italia (TIM) has defended its contentious agreement with sports subscription service and media company DAZN for the rights to Serie A, the top division of domestic club football, after Italy’s a…
Italian antitrust authority issues latest ruling in football ticketing probe
The Italian antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has completed a probe into football clubs’ ticketing practices during the 2019-20 Serie A season by issuing sanc…
Italian court rejects watchdog’s appeal over historic Serie A TV rights fines
Italy’s Council of State has rejected an appeal from the country’s competition watchdog, the AGCM, which sought to overturn a lower court ruling concerning the sale of broadcast rights to Serie A, the…
Italian clubs sanctioned over ticketing, Serie A braced for €600m Covid hit
The Italian antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has ruled that nine Serie A football clubs breached best practice on the sale of match and season tickets by…
Brescia and Lecce join AGCM’s Serie A ticketing investigation
The Italian antitrust authority, l’Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM), has widened its probe into the ticketing sales process conducted by Serie A football clubs by launching proceedings ag…