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… Indeed, of the 20 Serie A teams, four are not part of the GolTV package: Cagliari, Lazio, Lecce and Treviso. The rights of these teams, when they play home games, are held by Milan-based Media Partners, which, in turn, has re-sold them to Fox Sports and Fox Soccer Channel in the U.S.
In the case of Italian soccer, GolTV acquires all rights for the Americas -- both territorial and language rights -- with the exception of Italian-language rights, which are reserved for Rai International, the overseas cable and satellite service of RAI, Italy's state broadcaster. Thus, Rai International's broadcast footprint overlaps that of GolTV.
RAI's program sales division, RaiTrade, and Germany's Sport5 jointly sell Serie A international rights. The sales terms call for GolTV to broadcast a minimum of three Serie A games per week, but that number can go as high as seven, depending on the number of home games played. The 16 teams for which GolTV has the rights represent 8 matches, but some of them can be home games of teams for which GolTV doesn't have rights.
For the first time this year, RAI lost the Serie A domestic rights to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset. However, RaiTrade is still providing the international satellite feed through their long-held agreement with Sky Italia, Rupert Murdoch's satellite TV service in Italy, which has the pay-TV domestic rights (and before that with the former owner of Sky Italia, Tele Piú). This clean feed from all the stadia is transmitted via RAI's transport arm, RaiWay, to the European Broadcasting Union's Rome TV center, and via optical fiber, it is sent first to Geneva, Switzerland (EBU's headquarters) and then to Washington, DC where it is uplinked.
In addition to the domestic analog terrestrial TV rights, Mediaset owns the digital TV terrestrial rights to Series A games, which means that, at any particular time, there could be as many as 40 fixed TV cameras and a few mobile ones on each soccer field.
Games are broadcast by GolTV in both English and Spanish with the viewers selecting their language of choice. During major matches such as Milan-Juventus, GolTV sends its own commentators to Italy. Usually, though, commentary is added to the clean feed received at their Miami studios.
In Italy, GolTV maintains correspondent Pablo Monsalvo, who, from his Milan base, produces features and background stories on players and teams.Hong Kong-based Robert Chua, who is bringing his new technology, The Interactive Channel (TIC), to the Asia TV Forum, said that Singapore is quick becoming an important Asian TV hotspot. "Right now, Shanghai is most important, Singapore is getting there and Hong Kong is trying to make its place," he said. Chua is taking advantage of Asia, and the rest of the world's move toward IPTV, by licensing a new interactive technology which sees a channel simulcast on TV and the Internet, and allows viewers to participate in their favorite shows. Chua stressed that while his company, Robert Chua Productions, has provided content to broadcasters for years, now it is focused on licensing only its technology, and that it is the job of local content providers and broadcasters to provide content on the platform.
Fonte Video Age International
In the case of Italian soccer, GolTV acquires all rights for the Americas -- both territorial and language rights -- with the exception of Italian-language rights, which are reserved for Rai International, the overseas cable and satellite service of RAI, Italy's state broadcaster. Thus, Rai International's broadcast footprint overlaps that of GolTV.
RAI's program sales division, RaiTrade, and Germany's Sport5 jointly sell Serie A international rights. The sales terms call for GolTV to broadcast a minimum of three Serie A games per week, but that number can go as high as seven, depending on the number of home games played. The 16 teams for which GolTV has the rights represent 8 matches, but some of them can be home games of teams for which GolTV doesn't have rights.
For the first time this year, RAI lost the Serie A domestic rights to Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset. However, RaiTrade is still providing the international satellite feed through their long-held agreement with Sky Italia, Rupert Murdoch's satellite TV service in Italy, which has the pay-TV domestic rights (and before that with the former owner of Sky Italia, Tele Piú). This clean feed from all the stadia is transmitted via RAI's transport arm, RaiWay, to the European Broadcasting Union's Rome TV center, and via optical fiber, it is sent first to Geneva, Switzerland (EBU's headquarters) and then to Washington, DC where it is uplinked.
In addition to the domestic analog terrestrial TV rights, Mediaset owns the digital TV terrestrial rights to Series A games, which means that, at any particular time, there could be as many as 40 fixed TV cameras and a few mobile ones on each soccer field.
Games are broadcast by GolTV in both English and Spanish with the viewers selecting their language of choice. During major matches such as Milan-Juventus, GolTV sends its own commentators to Italy. Usually, though, commentary is added to the clean feed received at their Miami studios.
In Italy, GolTV maintains correspondent Pablo Monsalvo, who, from his Milan base, produces features and background stories on players and teams.Hong Kong-based Robert Chua, who is bringing his new technology, The Interactive Channel (TIC), to the Asia TV Forum, said that Singapore is quick becoming an important Asian TV hotspot. "Right now, Shanghai is most important, Singapore is getting there and Hong Kong is trying to make its place," he said. Chua is taking advantage of Asia, and the rest of the world's move toward IPTV, by licensing a new interactive technology which sees a channel simulcast on TV and the Internet, and allows viewers to participate in their favorite shows. Chua stressed that while his company, Robert Chua Productions, has provided content to broadcasters for years, now it is focused on licensing only its technology, and that it is the job of local content providers and broadcasters to provide content on the platform.
Fonte Video Age International
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