France

Football

The 2006 World Cup in Germany is on course to break television viewing records.

Rugby Union

French rugby union’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby expects to bring in an increased fee for the next period of television rights starting in the 2007-08 season.

Cycling

The finals of the Wimbledon tennis championship drew good television audiences in many of the sport’s top European markets last weekend. 
Athletics

A new deal for French Ligue 1 football is likely to be the biggest television-rights deal of 2008
Golf

Grass is greener market-by-market for Wimbledon
Football

Impending closure of German cable channel and collapse of Spanish
Basketball

Basketball: US Disney-owned broadcasters ABC and ESPN and Time Warner’s Turner Sports extended their deals with the National Basketball Association for a further eight years from 2008-09 to 2015-16. 
Football

Noos-Numéricâble becomes first French cable operator to acquire, rather than just distribute, content
Football

Public service broadcasters paying less for Euro 2008 rights

Football

France’s Ligue 1 may delay its mobile-rights request for tenders because of a dispute with the players association
Rugby Union

France Télévisions comprehens-ively outbid pay-broadcaster Canal Plus for exclusive rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition
Football

Merger talks between French pay-broadcasters Canal Plus and Télévision Par Satellite should be concluded before Christmas

Football

Rugby Union: French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired the exclusive live rights for European club rugby’s Heineken Cup competition in a four-year deal from 2006-07 to 2009-10

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.