English National League sees fee uplift in BT renewal
English football’s fifth-tier, the National League, bucked the market trend to secure an increase in its media-rights fee in its latest domestic renewal with telco BT.
LFP to re-tender Mediapro’s French league rights ‘next week’
The French Professional Football League’s (LFP) board of directors has agreed to re-tender its broadcast rights for the 2020-24 cycle next week but has limited the auction to those rights returned by M…
Six Nations rights sale restart in UK delayed to February
Six Nations Rugby, the organising body of the annual national team tournament, has slightly delayed to February the restart of its sales process for broadcast rights in the UK to the Six Nations and Autumn…
Eurosport to show inaugural Pure ETCR electric touring car series
International broadcaster Eurosport will show the inaugural season of the electric touring car racing series, Pure ETCR
Canal Plus to hand back Ligue 1 rights, urges LFP to launch new tender
French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus will return its sublicensed Ligue 1 rights to France’s Professional Football League (LFP) on February 5 and has urged the league to re-tender the full suite o…
NBA floats League Pass option in beIN renewal talks in France
The National Basketball Association entertained the possibility of going exclusively direct-to-consumer in France as a way of counterbalancing a lack of competition in its latest renewal with pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports, SportBusiness Media understands.
Canal Plus joins Téléfoot in broadcasting Trophée des Champions
The 2021 Trophée des Champions football match will be shown live in France by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus as well as Téléfoot, the subscription service of the Mediapro agency and production gr…
Telly extends Czech carriage deal with Discovery
Czech pay-television platform Telly has extended its carriage deal with international media group Discovery for the latter’s portfolio of channels, including Eurosport.
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FOOTBALL: Serie A’s stripped-down international rights tender puzzles agencies
FOOTBALL: Conmebol World Cup qualifier distributors face losses after disastrous US process
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French court ‘to rule on Tuesday’ on Mediapro-LFP rights settlement
The Nanterre commercial court is expected to decide on Tuesday whether to validate the settlement reached between Spanish agency and production group Mediapro and France’s Professional Football League (…