Sky wins Italian football ruling

Sky Italia Headquarters

The Italian competition authority has found no evidence that Sky Italia’s acquisition of UEFA Champions League 2012-2015) and FIFA World Cup (2012-2015) TV rights represented an abuse of a dominant position.

Sky Italia falls hit News Corp

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News Corp’s Direct Broadcast Satellite division moved to an $11 million loss in the March quarter.

Sky Italia pushes throttle on Sky Sport F1

Sky Sport Formula 1 (Italy)

Sky Italia has launched its new dedicated Formula1 channel that adds interactive screens to the broadcaster’s coverage of the 2013 championship.

News Corp holds on BSkyB sale or buy

News Corp

News Corp chief operating officer Chase Carey has given a strong indication that the company will return to the possibility of building or disposing of its stake in BSkyB.

Swisscom TV reaches 791,000 subs

Swisscom has said that the number of IPTV connections increased year-on-year by 183,000 or 30.1% to 791,000 (+63,000 in the fourth quarter).

Sky Italia expands Sky Go

Sky Go Italia

Sky Italia is launching a series of innovations to its Sky Go service. Launched in Italy nine months ago, Sky Go has already been activated by 1.1 million subscribers.

NDS sale assists News Corp

News Corp

Gains on the sale of News Corp’s remaining interest in NDS and the growth of its channels business was enough to compensate for declines in publishing and satellite operations.

Datapoint: Sky Italy household income profile

Sky Italia incomes

It may be little surprise to hear that pay-TV companies have customers with higher incomes than average.

Sky Italia goes social with HyperTV and Civolution

MIPCOM 2012 – Cannes. Sky Italia has chosen HyperTV and Civolution for the first ever social media gaming experience related to X Factor 2012.

No Telecom Italia Media bid from Sky Italia

Sky Italia has reiterated that it has no plans to buy Telecom Italia Media, the content division of the Italian telco that includes the terrestrial channel La7.