France

Football

Canal Plus’s successful legal challenge against the award of the French League Cup rights to public-service broadcaster France Télévisions could backfire

Television audiences of the drivers and manufacturers’ home markets reflect rise and fall
Cricket

Skiing: Swiss public-service broadcaster SRG SSR acquired the rights for Swiss World Cup events in a four-year deal, 2007-08 to 2010-11, with the Swiss ski federation
Football

League appeals to competition authorities for permission to sell rights for five years
Football

Football: French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 confirmed their joint acquisition of the rights for Euro 2008, in a €100m (£68m) deal brokered by the Sportfive agency. 
Rugby Union

France Télévisions' Heineken Cup audiences still show promise
Basketball

Basketball: Polish pay-broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live rights for the Euroleague in a three-year deal, from 2005-06 to 2007-08, with the Bonivest agency, which brokered the deal on behalf of Euroleague Basketball.

Cricket

Formula One: French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One, paying a significant increase.

French commercial broadcaster TF1 renewed its deal for Formula One rights
Football

French commercial broadcaster M6’s acquisition of 31 matches for next year’s football World Cup
Football

The established satellite operators are facing new competition from cable for domestic football rights
Football

The Team agency secured rights-fee increases of an overall 20 per cent or so for the Champions League rights in France

French pay-broadcaster Télévision Par Satellite has decided against taking on pay-rival Canal Plus for France’s top sports rights
Cricket

Ice hockey: Nordic pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus acquired the live pay-television and pay-per-view rights for the Swedish Elitserien, the country’s top-tier league, from the Svenska Hockeyligan in a four-year deal, 2006-07 to 2009-10

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 acquired the free-to-air Champions League rights for a further three-years, from 2006-07 to 2008-09

Basketball

The French Basketball Federation is in talks with the country’s two pay-television operators

Football

The French contenders for Champions League football asked to submit a second round of bids.
Football

Football: Spanish Primera Liga champions FC Barcelona agreed a long-term deal with the Mediapro agency which guarantees the club at least €1bn (£685m) for its domestic and international television rights for the seven years from 2006-07 to 2012-13.