Serie A: Eleven Sports Network acquires digital rights to three games per matchday for 2017-18

Eleven Sports Network has acquired the rights to broadcast, on digital platforms, three games per week of the Serie A TIM, via the Swiss media rights and marketing agency Infront Sports & Media, for the 2017-18 season, on 25/09/2017. These rights correspond to Lot E of the tenders for the domestic TV rights to the Serie A for the 2015-2018 period, which had not previously been allocated (see below).

"The partnership begins on 01/10/2017 with the games Napoli - Cagliari, Benevento - Inter, and Milan - Roma. The matches will be priced aggressively providing fantastic value for fans with individual games available for €1.99 or all three matches available for €3.99," via the Sportube OTT platform. Eleven Sports Network established itself in Italy by taking a majority stake in Sportube on 10/05/2017.

"Our model of acquiring smaller rights with economically viable production costs and widespread appeal amongst domestic fans in Italy has proved very successful and we are thrilled to take our coverage of football to the next level by delivering top Serie A action for the fans," said Danny…