French broadcasters handed April date for Coupe de France rights bids
French broadcasters looking to acquire domestic rights to the country’s national knockout clubs competition have been handed a deadline of 20 April on which to submit their first-round offers.
Conmebol and FC Diez Media issue 2023-26 club competitions domestic rights RFP
The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) and the IMG-owned FC Diez Media have issued the domestic broadcast rights request for proposal (RFP) for the region’s leading club competitions from 2…
Grand Slam triumph delivers bumper viewing figures for France Télévisions
Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions attracted an average of just under nine million viewers on Saturday evening as France defeated England 25-13 in Paris to complete the Grand Slam and lift t…
Taiwan’s Videoland acquires Formula One rights
Videoland, the pay-television broadcaster in Taiwan, has secured rights to the Formula One World Championship in an agreement with the Reddentes Sports agency
OneFootball adds Serie C to Italian content in Eleven distribution deal
OneFootball, the football-focused media platform, is to offer live coverage from Italian football’s third-tier Serie C on a pay-per-view basis after reaching a distribution agreement with rights-holder E…
Saran and TRT sign off on Turkish Süper Lig rights deals
Both the Saran agency and TRT, the Turkish public broadcaster, have announced that they have signed contracts for various Turkish Süper Lig broadcast rights packages, albeit the main live rights package …
Match TV’s SPFL and Scottish Cup deals suspended
Match TV, the Gazprom Media-owned Russian broadcaster, has lost access to more football content after its deals to show the Scottish Premiership and Scottish Cup were suspended
FFF to launch Coupe de France tender later this month with separate women’s package
The French Football Federation is poised to launch its invitation to tender for domestic broadcast rights to the Coupe de France later this month and will offer different packages for the men’s and women’s edi…
Killane: EBU heads into Olympics tender with ‘unity of purpose’
The European Broadcasting Union consortium is heading into the International Olympic Committee’s European broadcast rights sales process with a greater “unity of purpose” around the rights and combined digit…
Sportfive lands IHF media and sponsorship rights to 2031 after submitting revised offer
The Sportfive agency will continue to sell global media rights to the International Handball Federation’s leading events until 2031 after directly negotiating a new agreement with the world body that a…