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Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has stepped up its challenge to the domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender recently issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) by making an application t…
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The collapse in December of the French football league’s media-rights deal with Mediapro is the biggest market setback suffered by a European league for nearly two decades – since the failure of the ITV Digital pay-television platform nearly bankrupted the English Football League in 2002.
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Mediapro, the agency and production group that is closing down its Téléfoot subscription service in France after the collapse of its French football broadcast deal, has offered to continue to show Ligue 1…
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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…
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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…
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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 (…
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Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly agreed to make a €100m ($120m) severance payment to France’s Professional Football League (LFP) as part of its settlement for the return of …
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Didier Quillot, the former chief executive of France’s Professional Football League (LFP), has said he will forego his bonus payment for overseeing the league’s ill-fated domestic rights deal with the…
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has moved closer to establishing a commercial subsidiary after clubs voted in favour of the possibility.
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The mediator named in the dispute between France’s Professional Football League (LFP) and the Mediapro agency and production group is scheduled to present in front of the league this Thursday after an e…
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The Mediapro agency and production group has launched counter legal action against Canal Plus, it has emerged, accusing the French pay-television broadcaster of an “abuse of a dominant position” and “ab…
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Digital streaming platform OneFootball has picked up French Ligue 1 rights in Brazil at a substantial discount after DAZN’s exit from the market.
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Pay-television operator Canal Plus is reported to be willing to pay about €700m ($831.5
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BeIN Media Group has sealed a long-term media rights deal for France’s Ligue 1 in Poland with subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports following two seasons without coverage in the country.
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Canal Plus president Maxime Saada has said he is “very worried for French football” as a result of the ongoing dispute between Mediapro, the rights agency and production group, and the Professional Foo…
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OneFootball, the Germany-based digital platform, has added another high-profile property to its portfolio by securing streaming rights in Brazil to France’s Ligue 1 in another deal facilitated by the S…
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German sports broadcaster Sport1 has boosted its sports rights portfolio by extending a content-sharing agreement with DAZN, giving it access to select rights from the streaming service’s portfolio, w…
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has served formal notice on Spanish agency and production group Mediapro to pay its outstanding October invoice for the domestic broadcast rights to the country’s top-…