Andrea Zappia


KPN CEO tipped for Sky Italia

Maximo Ibarra, who has been hotly tipped to replace Andrea Zappia as CEO of Sky Italia, has resigned as chief executive of KPN. According to the Dutch telco’s statement, Ibarra (left) has resigned for pressing family reasons and because he is to move back to Italy to “take up a new executive position”. Ibarra will […]

Sky Italia makes online TV play

Sky in Italy has launched a Roku-powered Sky Online TV Box, a streaming device that is similar to the Now TV box Sky offers in the UK. Viewers can use the box to access Sky programming, without taking out a full Sky subscription, via the company’s internet TV service Sky Online. Other apps, such as […]

BSkyB rebrands as Euro merger completes

BSkyB has completed the takeovers of its European pay TV cousins, and subsequently rebranded its corporate identity. The UK-based satellite TV giant company will now be known simply as Sky after dropping the full title British Sky Broadcasting, and its stock exchange ticker will change to SKY from BSY tomorrow as a result. Sky has […]

Telecom Italia to offer channels via Sky Italia

Telecom Italia has signed a deal with Sky Italia that will allow its customers to access the full Sky television offering through its high-speed ultrabroadband service. The offer, which will be available from 2015, will let customers access Sky TV using a My Sky HD decoder, specially created for internet TV. The firms said that […]

Euro Sky channels showing Pope’s canonisation in 3D

Sky’s dedicated 3D channels in Italy, Germany and the UK will broadcast the upcoming canonisation of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. The event is being produced by the Vatican Television Centre and will go out live on the Sky channels on Sunday, April 27, starting at 9.30pm. It will also be filmed […]

Sky Italia channels boss leaves for Tata

Paolo Agostinelli, a senior channels executive at Sky Italia, is leaving the Italian pay TV operation to head up programming operations at Tata Sky. Sky Italia is owned by Twenty First Century Fox Indian DTH platform Tata Sky is a joint venture between Indiam conglomerate Tata Group and Star, which is also owned by Twenty […]

Sky Italia to launch Crime & Investigation channel

Sky Italia is launching a raft of new channels, including A+E Networks-owned Crime & Investigation. The Italian satcaster is also launching a dedicated Moto GP channel, a HD news channel called Sky TG24 and a new ‘walled garden’ Sky Loves Kids feature to protect children from adult content. Fox Sports HD, which will carry the […]

Italian media coin crashes, down €1.6bn

Combined revenues of Italy’s media companies, including broadcasters and online players, fell by €1.6 billion (US$2.1 billion) last year, the territory’s media regulator reports. The year-on-year decline in 2012 meant total media companies’ revenue was €15.7 billion, according to AgCom’s annual report. This comes as Italy wrestles with political and economic turmoil following a series […]

News Corp. reorganises Sky Italia along BSkyB, Sky Deutschland lines

News Corp.-owned Sky Italia has reorganised all of its programming activities into a single unit, bringing the structure into line with that already employed by other News Corp. pay TV platforms Sky Deutschland and BSkyB in the UK. Andrea Scrosati (above) has been elevated to executive VP, programming and will lead the new unit. Previously […]