France

Football
Media

The French Football Federation will broadcast matches from this weekend’s seventh round of the Coupe de France on its own website after failing to secure a new domestic rights deal.
Football
Media

Football’s Coupe de France is still without a domestic broadcaster despite the seventh round of the competition taking place next weekend.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has welcomed a ruling from the Paris Court of Appeal which confirms that it is under no obligation to reinstate its carriage of free-to-air channels operated…
Football
Media

L’Équipe posted record audience figures on Monday evening as its coverage of the Ballon d’Or ceremony attracted an average viewership of almost 2 million people in France.
Football
Media

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has welcomed a decision by the Paris Judicial Court ordering the blocking of access to pirate streaming and IPTV services.
Basketball
Media

French media group L’Équipe has struck a deal to show EuroLeague basketball games involving French teams ASVEL and AS Monaco during the 2022-23 season.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Luxembourg-based media company RTL Group has elected to retain its controlling stake in French commercial broadcaster M6, despite receiving what it states were “several financially attractive offers”.
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, the majority shareholder of M6 through RTL Group, has said that it is exploring the sale of the French commercial broadcaster following the collapse of its proposed…
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has suffered its second significant blow in the space of a week, with the Paris Commercial Court ruling against it amid the carriage dispute with pay-television broadcaster…
Football
Media

Vincent Labrune, president of France’s Professional Football League (LFP), has revealed that the invitation to tender for the next cycle of domestic broadcast rights to the top-tier Ligue 1 will launch i…
Multiple Sports
Media

French free-to-air commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6, along with their respective parent companies, conglomerate Bouygues and media group RTL Group, have ended a proposed merger operation after declaring…
Multiple Sports
Media

Canal Plus, the France-based pay-television broadcaster, has further raised its stake in pan-African broadcaster MultiChoice, owner of pay-television broadcasters SuperSport and DStv
Football
Media

French media group L’Équipe has acquired rights to the 2022 World Judo Championships and is set to extend its coverage of the Copa del Rey and DFB-Pokal club football competitions.
Multiple Sports
Industry Moves

Géraldine Filiol has been recruited by French sports streaming platform Sportall to the newly-created position of vice-president of acquisitions and revenues.
Rugby Union
Media

BeIN Sports and France Télévisions have renewed their rights to the Champions Cup and Challenge Cup rugby union competitions after finalising new four-year deals with European Professional Club Rugby (…
Handball
Media

The Sport in France free-to-air channel has renewed its rights to broadcast the Ligue Féminine de Handball's Division 1, the country’s top-tier women’s handball league, for the 2022-23 season.
Tennis
Media

French media group L’Équipe has acquired rights to the Finals of this year’s Davis Cup tennis tournament.
Multi-sport
Host Broadcast & Production

China Media Group (CMG), the Chinese state media company, has reached an agreement with Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS), the host broadcast arm of the International Olympic Committee, to produce international…