[whoarethepatriot...]

Fans in Britain will be able to see Serie A action on terrestrial television next season after Channel Five picked up the TV rights.

Reports in Italy made the claim this morning and the news seems to have been confirmed this afternoon.

Production will be carried out by Sunset+Vine, a subsidiary of Tinopolis, who already provide Five with their cricket package.

Ron Jones, the executive chairman of Tinopolis, said: "The main deal is for a highlights programme – although Five do have the rights for live matches as well.”

Serie A football was first shown on UK television in 1992 when Channel 4 made their move following Paul Gascoigne’s switch to Lazio.

The coverage moved to British Eurosport in 2002, before Bravo and Setanta agreed a joint deal in 2005.

Bravo dropped their coverage at the end of 2006, though, due to a lack of decent audience figures.

Mainly highlights, but better than nothing

[Warchant]

serie a signed a lot of new contracts this year

they will also be showing their games on FSC in the states next season

[bigmacmtl]

serie a signed a lot of new contracts this year

they will also be showing their games on FSC in the states next season

good news for us north americans (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Warchant]

good news for us north americans  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

excellent news...gol tv had the serie rights for the past few years, but i believe they ran up last year.

FSC was very quick to get a lot of the top tier serie a games on FSC

[whoarethepatriot...]

Italy's dominance both Internationally and European helps.

Rejoice, we can watch for free

[Rossoneri7]

Italy's dominance both Internationally and European helps.

Rejoice, we can watch for free

For free !!! I have to pay 20bucks/ year to watch Serie A (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[bigmacmtl]

For free !!! I have to pay 20bucks/ year to watch Serie A (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)   (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

darn, 20$? i have the canadian latin network (telelatino, mainly italian shows) so thats included in one of my packages so i get 90% of the milan games. they play 4-5 serie a games on the weekend and then a cool review show that shows the extended highlights for every match and they discuss.

[kurtsimonw]

Mainly highlights, but better than nothing

serie a signed a lot of new contracts this year
they will also be showing their games on FSC in the states next season

I suppose it shows there's a bigger interest in Serie A Worldwide.

Usually everything we get on Five ends up being picked up by Sky Sports after a few years (NNA, NFL) because Five seems to know when things are rising in popularity. Let's hope they give us some games, too! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Rossoneri7]

darn, 20$? i have the canadian latin network (telelatino, mainly italian shows) so thats included in one of my packages so i get 90% of the milan games. they play  4-5 serie a games on the weekend and then a cool review show that shows the extended highlights for every match and they discuss.

Well, for those $20, believe it or not (jefri probably has the same package), I get the Spanish league games too .. An extensive review of all the games both in Serie A and La Liga .. As a whole, a package like this in Europe (or North American), how much would it cost ?

[misha]

Here it's pretty good. 2-3 live games + highlights from other games

[kurtsimonw]

Sky tv, if you just wanted the sports channels, still costs around £17 a month or something. But since Sky don't get Serie A you have to make do with Premier League and La Liga.

For Serie A I think Setanta Sports have it, think that costs £15 a month. Setanta has Italian, Scottish, German and French football I believe.

So $20 is cheap in my opinion, you're lucky you don't live in Europe. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[bigmacmtl]

Well, for those $20, believe it or not (jefri probably has the same package), I get the Spanish league games too .. An extensive review of all the games both in Serie A and La Liga .. As a whole, a package like this in Europe (or North American), how much would it cost ?

well there theres 3-4 diff sport packages that have 4-5 sport channels each and each package is 5-6$ dollars a month (thats no including the 20$ you pay for basic package). so i have 2 of those sport packages + one with few foreign package (german for my dad, he speaks it) and the italian network is included in that. so i pay 5$ i think for telelatino and we get a few other channels for that too.

This post has been edited by bigmacmtl: Jun 12 2007, 07:38 PM

[whoarethepatriot...]

Eurosport was the best for Serie A, i still fondly remember my Staurday evenings and sundays were devoted to watching games

Five im guessing will only show big games (Milanese Roman derbys, top 4 clashes)

But still like i said better than nothing, or better than watching on sopcast

[Milan Are Brilli...]

Well it's better than nothing, and saves me a subscription to Setanta at Uni!

[Rossoneri7]

Yeah .. It's pretty cheap here. When the Jazeera Sport got the rights for both Serie A and La Liga, they wanted to broadcast free, but La Liga intervened and said that Jazeera have to impose a fee (to keep the league exclusive). Therefor, they put this ridiculous price (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (in case ur wondering, Jazeera makes BIG $$ on adverts, that is why it wanted to broadcast free games)