From Amazon to Dazn, the football revolution on TV

Football Italy is preparing for the television revolution.

. Goodbye parable, therefore, to watch all 380 games per season in the next three years (only 114 will be broadcast in co-exclusive by Sky also on satellite), with football increasingly focusing on internet platforms to definitively enter the future.

After landing in Italy in the hot summer of 2018, Dazn is thus ready to become the home of Serie A with 7 exclusive races (and the other 3 co-exclusive) every day.

The debut is therefore at 18.30 with Inter-Genoa and Verona-Sassuolo, the first matches of the championship that enters the streaming era. Together with Dazn, the start of the championship will also be a test for Tim, who has invested in the partnership with the OTT platform by focusing on TimVision with an offer that also guarantees the vision of the Champions League through an agreement with Mediaset Infinity.

. If in fact the Serie A will be all on Dazn (with the possibility of seeing three games in turn in co-exclusive on Sky), for the Champions League there will be three platforms that will broadcast the matches: Mediaset (in addition to the new Coppa Italia) will broadcast 17 free-to-air Tuesday games on Channel 5 and 104 paid streaming on Infinity, Sky will broadcast 121 paid games and Amazon Prime Video finally purchased the rights for the 16 best games on Wednesday. The other competitions remain in the background, with Europa League and Conference League both on Dazn and on Sky, while on the pitch for Serie B there will be Sky, Dazn and Helbiz and finally for foreign football the Liga will be on Dazn while Premier League, Bundesliga and Ligue 1 will be broadcast by Sky.And for those who want to watch the games in bars or other public places? It will be possible to watch the entire Serie A and all the Champions League in the local Sky subscribers (thanks to the partnerships with Dazn and Amazon), while Tim is closing the agreement with Dazn itself.

. Starting with the return of Sandro Piccinini, who will be the voice of the Champions League on Amazon, with a parterre of commentators ranging from Clarence Seedorf to Julio Cesar to the former referee Gianpaolo Calvarese.

Many well-known faces who will also be part of Dazn's team, with Massimo Ambrosini, Alessandro Matri, Giampaolo Pazzini, Riccardo Montolivo and Andrea Barzagli among the commentators, the confirmations of Pierluigi Pardo and Diletta Leotta among the main protagonists as well as the arrival of Giorgia Rossi and Marco Cattaneo. The clash between Pardo and Mediaset - with the cause of TV to the journalist, who declares that "in the summer there was no contract signed with Mediaset and not even accepted informally. I would have liked to continue working for Dazn as well: I was expecting the start free from Mediaset, but it never arrived "- led instead to the choice of making the former Sky Riccardo Trevisani the leading name of Mediaset itself for Champions and Coppa Italia, together with Massimo Callegari.

There is no shortage of in-depth programs in the clear. Sunday 22 and Sunday 29 August, two specials in prime time on Retequattro will start 'Pressing Prima Serata', with Massimo Callegari flanked by Monica Bertini, to follow the first two days of the championship, while from Monday 13 September on Italia 1 will return 'Tiki Taka - La Repubblica del Pallone 'with Piero Chiambretti. Rai takes the field on Saturday with Dribbling on Rai2 at 18.30, conducted by Simona Rolandi and on Sunday with Novantesimo Minuto at 18.10 with Marco Lollobrigida and Giovanna Carollo September). Then space for Domenica Sportiva always on Rai2 from 10.45 pm with Jacopo Volpi, Marco Tardelli, Eraldo Pecci and the return of Teo Teocoli.