Telecom Italia (TIM) has backed a government plan to set up a single high-speed broadband network company with rival Open Fiber. It has sold a 37.5 per cent stake in its last-mile fixed network to US investment fund KKR Infrastructure for €1.8 billion. The deal is expected to be the launch pad for the government’s […]
The Financial Police in the city of Venice have dismantled a criminal organisation dedicated to the online sale of subscriptions for the illegal viewing of the major pay-TV platforms. The platform was accessed by over 65,000 end customers, who paid €10 per month, using special Postepay cards. The investigation revealed that the payment cards were […]
Discovery Italia has seen the highest growth in audience share over 24 hours (+8 per cent) among Italian broadcasters during the first six months of 2020. However, the Covid-19 health emergency impacted the group’s advertising sales, dropping by 14.6 per cent in the first four months of 2020 (-49 per cent in April alone). On […]
Piracy cost the Italian economy €1.1 billion last year, according to an Ipsos study for the Italian Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual Content (FAPAV). The negative impact on GDP was almost €500 million, the
Italy’s Serie A has set a July 12th deadline for Sky Italia to pay the last instalment for the TV rights, otherwise it faces a football blackout until the end of the season. Much like the English Premier League, the season restarted last week, and is currenly scheduled to end on August 2nd. The pay-TV […]
WWE and Discovery have announced a new multi-year agreement in Italy beginning July 1st that will make WWE’s weekly flagship programming available exclusively live and on-demand with original US commentary on DPlay PLUS, the OTT premium pay service of Discovery, along with versions featuring Italian commentary on DMAX. Every week, Dplay PLUS will exclusively air […]
Tonight (June 17th) on BT Sport 2, Italian giants Juventus, led by former Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri, will go in search of a 14th Coppa Italia. Standing in their way is Sarri’s former club, Napoli. Viewers will be able to watch a Juventus line up which is likely to include Cristiano Ronaldo, Paolo Dybala along […]
A new VoD platform broadcasting Christian-inspired series, films and documentaries has gone live in Italy. Branded ‘VatiVision’, the service is a joint initiative of Italian cloud computing platform Vetrya and Officina della Communicazione, a producer of religious and cultural content for various Vatican institutions and Italian broadcasters. The main sponsor of the project is UBI […]