France

Eurosport upset that production of matches was taken out of deal

Relationship between broadcaster and LFP hits new low, as league considers splitting production contract from television rights

The revamped Golden League athletics series has still to win television coverage in two of Europe’s top five television markets.

Dramatic tournament attracts best-ever audiences in four key markets

First ever pay-per-view coverage for Top 14

Premier League: the bidding, the struggle, the deadlock

Football: French commercial broad-caster TF1 agreed a deal with the Infront agency for the pay-television rights for the 2006 World Cup and sublicensed them to pay-broadcaster Canal Plus and its own cable and satellite channel Eurosport.

France Télévisions said that the merger of Canal Plus and TPS will create a company with a stranglehold on France’s sports-rights market.

Football: Caribbean sports cable channel SportsMax acquired the free-to-air and pay-television rights for all Fifa events from 2007 to 2014 in a deal worth $18m (£9.3m/€13.7m). 

Head of Italy office set to leave, Italian operation under review

TF1 appears to have done its best to undermine the coverage of most of the remaining games by the rival M6 channel.

German cable company consortium is takeover target for Liberty Global

Football: New Spanish commercial channel La Sexta, which launched last week, acquired the rights to this year’s World Cup.

Football: Free-to-air broadcasters HRT (Croatia), RUV (Iceland) and TV3 (Slovenia), acquired exclusive live rights to all 31 matches of Euro 2008 in deals with the Sportfive agency, which is marketing…

Fernando Alonso’s strong start to the Formula One season continued to attract Spanish viewers this season.

French pay-broadcaster Canal Plus will pay only a small increase in rights fees for a much greater number of matches in a new four-year deal for French rugby union’s top-tier domestic league, the Top 1…