Tuesday, 12th July 2011

RIGHTS FEES

 =>  Italian Serie A clubs have agreed a new revenue-sharing deal for media rights for the 2010/11 season and approved guidelines for the sale of rights from 2012 to 2015.  The clubs had earlier been at odds over respective shares of €197 mil ($281 mil) or about 25% of total annual media rights revenue.  The clubs also agreed to guidelines for sale of rights of 2012/13 to 14/15 to switch to collective rights selling.  Pay-TV Sky Italia was awarded a package of domestic rights in 2009 in a deal worth €1.16 bil ($1.67 bil), or €580 mil per season for two seasons.  Digital terrestrial, Mediaset Premium, paid €437 mil (€211 mil for 2010/11 and €226 ,mil for 2011/12) for live coverage of another package of matches.  In 2009, pubcaster Rai acquired highlight rights for €30 mil /season, meaning that the league raised €852.5 mil from domestic rights for 2010/11, plus €89.5 mil generated from sale of international rights to MP & Silva.  2011/12 yielded an increased total of €957.5 mil.

BROADCAST & RIGHTS DISTRIBUTION

 =>  Inverleigh Media has launched 14 new TV series focused on the London 2012 Olympic Games, European soccer and lifestyle sports.  Sales of programmes are managed by DSI, Inverleigh's content distribution arm and will be made available to pay-TV and free-to-air broadcasters "in all continents."  The programming includes topical weekly content and documentary titles in full-length formats, with alternative short-form versions on offer for in-flight use.  The titles, available a stand-alone basis or as part of a package, encompass sport, lifestyle and entertainment, and nine of them will be produced in HD.

STATS & DATA

 =>  Digital TV Research predicts solid growth in the DTH satellite pay-TV market over the next 5 years, growing from 139 mil homes at the end 2010 to 195 mil by end 2016. The Satellite TV Forecasts report estimates penetration at 10.3% of TV households at end-2010, and will reach 13.1% by 2016.  India leads the sector with 45 mil pay DTH homes in 2016, followed by the US with 36 mil but penetration will be highest in South Africa (47%) and Ireland (41%). Satellite TV revenues are expected to overtake cable TV sometime in 2011 and on to reach $86 bil by 2016 (from $71 billion in 2010).  DTH will command half of total pay-TV revenues by 2016, up from only 43% in 2006.