Euro 2016: Italy - Malta qualifying match draws 6.34 million viewers in Italy on Rai1

Italy - Malta (1-0), Matchday 7 of qualifying for Euro 2016 (Group H), broadcast live and exclusively in Italy by Rai1, allowed the Italian public TV channel to draw 6.34 million viewers on average during the match, held at the Stadio Artemio Franchi (47,300 seats) in Florence (ITA) on Thursday…

France: V. Bolloré named chairman of the Canal+ board, J-C Thiery replaces Bertrand Meheut as chief

Vincent Bolloré, the chairman of the supervisory board of the French media and telecommunications group Vivendi, has taken over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the Groupe Canal+ (which Vivendi owns), replacing Arnaud de Puyfontaine, the CEO of Vivendi, at a meeting of the French…

Euro 2016: UEFA publishes the regulations for public screenings of the competition

UEFA, which holds 95% of the EURO 2016 SAS, the organising company for Euro 2016, published FAQs and regulations in force for licences for public screenings of the 51 matches of the competition, on 19/08/2015. A public screening "refers to the televised broadcasting of football matches outside the…

China: 2015-2018 European Cups to be shown on the streaming platforms PPTV, Tencent, Sina and Letv

The Internet and mobile streaming platform PPTV (Suning group) has acquired the broadcasting rights in mainland China of all the games of the Champions League and the Europa League from 2015-18, according to Chinese press on 02/09/2015. These rights also include European Super Cup matches from…

Bayern Munich partner with Goal.com to promote the club in North America and Asia

FC Bayern Munich (Bundesliga) and the website Goal.com (owned by the Perform Group) have formed a partnership to exchange content and promote the "FC Bayern Munich" brand, mainly in North America and Asia, the two groups announced on 01/09/2015. Goal.com will provide Bayern with content (text and…

German Cup: the DFB launch the tender for domestic TV rights in 2016-2019

The DFB launched the tender procedure for domestic audiovisual rights to the DFB-Pokal for the 2016-2019 cycle on 01/09/2015. This tender also covers the domestic broadcasting rights for the final of the Women's German Cup. The tender is managed by the Swiss marketing and media rights agency…

Italy: Sky group acquires the 2015-16 TV rights to the new club Parma Calcio 1913 (fourth division)

The pay-TV group Sky Italia has acquired the broadcasting rights, for 2015-16, in Italy, for the home and away matches of Parma Calcio 1913 in the Serie D (the Italian fourth division, the highest non-professional level), on 01/09/2015. No financial details were disclosed of the agreement between…

Serie A: 5.95 million subscribers of Sky and Mediaset Premium watch Matchday 2 of 2015-16

The 10 matches of Matchday 2 of the 2015-16 Serie A TIM, played on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30/08/2015, drew an average of 5,947,059 total subscribers on the channels of the Italian pay-TV groups Sky Italia and Mediaset Premium, according to data from the audience measurement institutes AGB (Nielsen…

Liga BBVA: at least 2.28 million TV viewers for Matchday 2 of 2015-16

At least 2.28 million viewers on average watched nine of the 10 matches of Matchday 2 of the 2015-16 Liga BBVA season, from 28 to 30/08/2015. The figures of the match between UD Las Palmas - Levante UD (0-0), which took place on Sunday, 30/08/2015 at 22:30 CET, were not disclosed. The best…

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