France

Football
Media

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is set to broadcast the Premier League exclusively after opting against a sublicensing of rights ahead of this weekend’s opening fixtures of the new season.
Football
Events

Uefa Women’s Euro 2022 is continuing to pull in strong audience figures as both German and French broadcasters posted strong ratings for the two countries’ semi-final clash yesterday (Wednesday) evening.
Multiple Sports
Media

France’s National Assembly has voted to scrap the licence fee for public-service broadcasting, which is now set to be funded by a portion of the takings from VAT.
Multiple Sports
Media

The French competition authority, the Autorité de la Concurrence, has found that the proposed merger between free-to-air commercial broadcasters M6 and TF1 raises a number of “significant” competition conc…
Football
Media

French telco SFR will launch a new subscription package combining its RMC Sport pay-television channels with the Ligue 1 domestic football offering provided by the streaming service Amazon Prime Video
Cycling
Events

Event promoter Amaury Sport Organisation is confident that its investment in the women’s Tour de France will pay off commercially in future years with a sizeable free-to-air audience creating an appealing p…
Football
Media

Commercial broadcaster TF1 has secured exclusive rights to France’s national team matches until the end of the 2027-28 season.
Multiple Sports
Media

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has expanded its sports offering with the launch of two new channels, Canal Plus Sport 360 and Canal Plus Foot
Trail Running
Media

French media group L’Équipe has acquired rights to global trail running circuit the UTMB World Series. L’Équipe’s coverage will include the series’ showpiece event, the UTMB Mont-Blanc. Taking p
Basketball

Fiba has had mixed fortunes in Europe as its media rights value took a hit in France, while it secured a modest increase in Spain.
Rugby Union

The value of Six Nations rights will remain flat in France after protracted negotiations between the tournament organiser and the country’s public-service broadcaster, France Télévisions.
Football
Media

England’s emphatic 8-0 win over Norway last night at the Uefa Women’s Euro attracted a peak UK audience of 4.1 million viewers on the BBC.
Football

Canal Plus’s decision to pay a huge increase for Uefa club competition rights in France last week was made with one eye on next year’s Ligue 1 domestic rights tender, experts have told SportBusiness Media.
Football
Media

L’Équipe, the digital terrestrial channel and digital platform, is to show one weekly match from French football’s second-tier Ligue 2 after striking a sublicensing deal with rights-holder Amazon Prim…
Football
Finance & Law

The Paris Commercial Court has ordered Canal Plus to honour a sublicensing deal with fellow French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports for rights to Ligue 1, the top division of domestic club football
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in France to Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain’s forthcoming pre-season friendly matches in Japan.
Padel
Media

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has secured rights to show Premier Padel in over 60 territories, including France
Football
Media

Maxime Saada, president of pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus, insists that any sublicensing of its newly-acquired rights in France to the Uefa club competitions from 2024-25 onwards will only be done…