MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
*Court blocks Sky Italia football rights* November 5, 2009 11.04 Image: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/sky-italia-hq-150x108.jpg An Italian court...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Mediaset, the broadcaster controlled by Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was told by a court yesterday that it could not simply refuse to take advertising from Sky Italia, its rival.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
A Milan court ordered Mediaset to stop refusing rival Sky Italia's advertising on its free-to-air channels, but stopped short of forcing it to pay damages.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
* Court rules Mediaset conduct is anti-competitive* Says Mediaset must stop discriminating but cannot enforce* Mediaset says ruling does not change its behaviour* Sky says it will resume business talks with Mediaset(Updates, releads with court document)By Danilo MasoniMILAN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Italian broadcaster Mediaset (MS.MI), controlled by Prime Minister Berlusconi, must stop discriminating...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
*USB key brings lost channels back to Sky Italia* October 20, 2009 11.58 Image: http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Sky-italia-key.jpg Sky...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Europe: Sky Italia claims bias in favor of RAI, Mediaset -- Rupert Murdoch's Sky Italia paybox has prompted Italy's anti-trust authority to open a probe into the country's TV ratings monitor, called Auditel, by complaining that Auditel's audience share figures are rigged to favor Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset and pubcaster RAI.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
MILAN, Nov 6 (Reuters) - News Corp (NWSA.O) said on Friday it will launch a free digital terrestrial television channel in Italy next month in a move that heats up competition with Italy's Mediaset (MS.MI) and state broadcaster RAI.The new Milan-based channel called Cielo, which means Sky, will start broadcasting on Dec. 1 on third-parties' bandwidth, reaching 12 million families, News Corp unit News...
Serie A Talk (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... Reprieve As Juventus Defeat Real Madrid Champions League Group Stage Juventus 2 – 1 Real... Italian Super Cup – Mourinho Wins Again It took more than 90 minutes but the outcome was...
FOOTBALL: Just Love The Game (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... to break away. "We will see what will happen in the next few weeks," Mancini told Sky Italia . "Leagues have only been started for a short time, so we will see what happens over the next months. "I have said it once before, at times you never think that you'll train a certain team and then you end up training that very team. "I think that, for me, an experience abroad...
Soccer News - Daily Soccer News (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
“Scintillating? No, I’d call it a nuclear explosion,” he said when asked how to describe the game in an interview with Sky Italia.
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Roberto Mancini's agent is unaware of rumours linking the Italian with the Real Madrid post.
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... reports that Chelsea have lodged an offer."I don't think Marek will be leaving Napoli," he told Sky Italia."He has a long contract with us and he is very well in Napoli."I won't just yield to any offer from Chelsea, we don't need their money."A few days earlier his agent Juraj Venglos claimed that interest in Hamsik was mounting.Venglos stated: "It is too early to talk about Marek's future,...
MaldivianDigital® :: Forum (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
*Tesco boss criticised by BSkyB-watchers Chris Forrester 18-10-2009 Shareholders' lobby group PIRC (Pensions Investment Research Consultants Ltd) is grumbling about the number of...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
PARIS, October 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced that it has broken through the barrier of 100 High-Definition TV channels broadcasting through its video satellites. The 100th channel to take to the skies was Sky Sport 1HD, the flagship channel of the latest HD package from the SKY Italia pay-TV platform.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Faced with the dominance of satellite broadcaster Sky Italia, Mediaset is trying to hang on to its share of the Italian television sector and offset falling ad sales by targeting the lower end of the pay-TV market.
