Italian soccer Archives

DAZN rejects Sky offer for continued Serie A rights-sharing in Italy, plans to keep those rights exclusive

Sky offered DAZN $609 million U.S. for some continued Serie A rights-sharing in Italy, but DAZN has turned them down, opting to focus on keeping those rights streaming-only.

Serie A CEO Luigi De Siervo calls moving crowd mics to avoid racist chants “producing a spectacle to be enjoyed…not censorship”

“What we were doing was considering how TV coverage can best explain the beauty of Italian football. We do that continually and the basic idea is to avoid dwelling on ugly incidents.