Amazon's Prime Video service and digital sports media company DAZN, for example, would present attractive plugins for Mediaset Play. If confirmed, Mediaset Play could become a key platform in the Italian soccer broadcast space. Now, reports in Italy suggest Mediaset Play Infinity+ is being lined up to stream those 104 non-exclusive matches, with the 16 top-pick Tuesday games the broadcaster acquired in the original tender process also being aired via the Canale 5 linear commercial network.Īccording to Italian broadcast press reports, Mediaset Play Infinity is also rolling out a ‘channels’ platform for third-party services to offer users access via an additional subscription. At the original Italian market tender, Amazon snapped up the top pick of the elite European club soccer competition’s Wednesday matches, paying €80 million (US$93.8 million) per season. The subscription streaming rights were made available as a result of a restriction placed on Sky Italia, the competition’s main linear broadcaster, which prohibits the pay-TV network buying streaming rights on an exclusive basis until 2022.Ĭomcast-owned Sky is paying between €100 million (US$116 million) and €110 million (US$128 million) per season for the bulk of the rights to both the Champions League and second-tier Europa League. In January, Mediaset confirmed a deal for non-exclusive Italian streaming rights to air 104 Champions League games annually, paying a reported €45 million (US$53.5 million) per season for the three-year contract, which runs until the end of the 2023/24 campaign.
Facebook opts not to renew Champions League and La Liga contracts.The Mediaset Play streaming service is being relaunched as Mediaset Play Infinity, following the closure of the standalone Infinity subscription platform back in December, with a premium paid-for tier set to go live in April called Mediaset Play Infinity+. Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset is launching a subscription tier on its rebranded streaming platform that will allow customers to access the majority of its live Uefa Champions League coverage, according to domestic reports. Sky has bulk of linear games, while Amazon previously snapped up Champions League’s top Wednesday games.New Mediaset Play platform to offer third-party services.Mediaset will also stream 104 non-exclusive Champions League games.Commercial broadcaster paying €45m a year for top-pick Tuesday games.