New Italian Sports Channels To Replace Sportitalia

By Jay Stuart

Italian sports broadcaster Sportitalia will cease operations on November 1, link  according to Corriere della Sera.

Entrepreneur Tarak Ben Ammar founded Sportitalia, allergy which has three digital terrestrial channels, order in 2004. Last summer, the channels were bought by LT Multimedia.

That company now plans to launch LT Sport with three new sports channels, one dedicated to football, the second to Olympic sports and the third to motor sports, the newspaper said. The new channels will initially be available only via satellite. The DTT frequencies still belong to Sportitalia.