France

Football

Italian Serie A rights values have declined by around a third in France and Southeast Asia under a deal with beIN Sports, mirroring recent trends in those markets.
Football

French telecoms operator Free has been holding talks with France’s Professional Football League (LFP) about adding the ability to show social media clips of goals to its existing contract, it is claimed.
Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced a deal with French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions for coverage of its new Track Champions League competition.
Multiple Sports

OL Groupe, which operates French Ligue 1 football club Olympique Lyonnais, has posted a net loss of €107m ($124m) for the 2020-21 financial year, with the results significantly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic a…
Rugby Union

L’Équipe, the French free-to-air digital terrestrial channel and streaming platform, has today (Monday) announced the acquisition of rights to 27 international rugby union test matches between now and th…
Football

Online retail giant Amazon has agreed a deal with TF1 that sees short highlights of French football’s Ligue 1 return to the commercial broadcaster’s long-running Téléfoot programme. T
Para Sport

French broadcasters have been invited to bid for media rights to the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games after an invitation to tender process was launched by the Organising Committee
Multiple Sports

Canal Plus, the pay-television broadcaster active in different international markets, has reported a 4.8-per-cent increase in revenues to €4.25bn ($4.95bn) in the first nine months of 2021.
Basketball

Fanseat, the subscription-based sports streaming service owned by the Spring Media agency, has secured rights to broadcast six basketball leagues in the Denmark, France and the UK
Football

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is seeking an investment of €1.5bn ($1.75b
Football
Media

Bidding for domestic broadcast rights to France’s national team matches from 2022 to 2028 has gone to a second round, it has been reported.
US College Sport

Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in France to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) events through an agreement with US sports broadcaster ESPN
Football

Vincent Labrune, president of France’s Professional Football League (LFP), has said that it is “imperative” for the organisation to establish a commercial subsidiary to secure the future of the sport in th…
Multiple Sports

France’s National Assembly has approved a new law which is designed to tackle piracy of “cultural works in the digital age”. T
Football

M6 and TF1, the French commercial broadcasters in the process of merging their activities, must lodge their offers for broadcast rights to France’s national team qualifying matches, along with the Uefa E…
Football

French digital terrestrial broadcaster L’Équipe has acquired rights to the finals of Latin American football competitions the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana.
Multiple Sports

Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has upped his interest in TF1 to 5.05 per cent and backed the proposed merger of the French commercial free-to-air broadcaster with erstwhile rival M6
Football

Matches from France’s top futsal division will be streamed on a new OTT subscription platform following a five-year deal struck by the French Football Federation and Sportall, the France-based digital m…