Champions League: Warner Bros. acquires free-to-air rights for Barça - Inter in Italy on 30/04/2025

The media and entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery has acquired under sublicense from Amazon the free-to-air rights in Italy to the first leg of the 2024-25 Champions League semi-final between FC Barcelona (LALIGA EA Sports) and FC Inter Milan (Serie A Enilive), scheduled for Wednesday 30/04/2025 (21:00 CET).

In the event of an Italian team taking part, the semi-finals and finals of the Champions League and Europa League are included in the list of "events considered particularly important for society" and must therefore be broadcast free-to-air, in accordance with AGCOM regulations. The match will therefore be broadcast on Warner's free-to-air channel Nove, in addition to being shown on Amazon's Prime Video platform.

Amazon holds the exclusive broadcasting rights to the Champions League Wednesday night fixture for the 2024-2027 cycle (i.e. 18 matches per season).

• The second leg of the semi-final, scheduled for Tuesday 06/05/2025 (21:00), will be broadcast free-to-air on TV8 (Sky Italia Sector: pay-TV operator by satellite, ADSL and mobile Founded…