France

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…
Football

Jaume Roures, the chief executive and co-founder of Mediapro, is to attend a hearing of a French parliamentary commission next week following the high-profile collapse of the media group and agency’s F…
Multiple Sports

MCS Extrême, previously a French pay-television channel focused on extreme sports, has been relaunched as a subscription OTT platform. The MCS Extrême service, which is priced at €4 ($4.73)
Multiple Sports
Finance & Law

Global subscription broadcaster and media company DAZN Group has agreed to sell three sports news portals to Turkish investment company Istanbul Portfoy, as it continues divesting parts of its business…
Rugby Union

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has extended its Rugby World Cup rights deal to take in next year’s postponed edition of the women’s tournament in New Zealand, plus France’s staging of the men’s event i…
Padel

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired the rights to broadcast the World Padel Tour