France

Sailing

A raft of broadcast rights contracts signed for sailing’s 36th America’s Cup include deals with both public-service and pay-television broadcasters in Italy and the UK, as a priority is placed on maximum exp…
Football

Paris’ commercial court has referred a legal complaint by French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus against agency and production group Mediapro to the city’s high court.
Multi-sport

French broadcast regulator the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) has opened talks with Canal Plus over the extension of the pay-television broadcaster’s digital terrestrial licence.
Football

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has widened its tie-up with TikTok, the short-form video platform owned by Chinese technology group ByteDance, to drive further engagement with fans domestically a…
Handball

Digital terrestrial broadcaster L’Équipe has acquired free-to-air rights to a series of French women’s and men’s national-team handball matches. Th
Rugby Union

The Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the organising body for French rugby’s union’s Top 14 and Pro D2, is open to continuing discussions over a private equity deal worth €200m ($233.4m) b
Ice Hockey

The ‘Sport in France’ free-to-air channel will broadcast the country’s top-tier men’s ice hockey league in the 2020-21 season. Inv
Cycling

Domestic viewing figures for the Tour de France remained strong on both France Télévisions, the public-service broadcaster, and Eurosport, the Discovery-owned sports broadcaster, despite the shifting o…
Handball

The Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH), the top men’s handball league in France, is to broadcast all matches not shown by rights-holding broadcaster beIN Sports this season ahead of the probable launch o…
Football

Canal Plus would not be willing to agree a distribution deal for Téléfoot that only allowed it to offer the French football subscription service to its satellite customers, according to Maxime Saada, p…
Football

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has initiated legal proceedings in a complaint over the ‘unequal’ treatment it feels is being meted out by agency and production group Mediapro in carriage tal…
Handball

International media group Discovery has finalised a deal for a host of European Handball Federation rights in France and Poland with the Infront agency
American Football

International subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports has retained its rights to the National Football League in Belgium, Luxembourg and Portugal
Football

German pay-television broadcaster Sky Deutschland and OneFootball have renewed a distribution agreement that allows the Berlin-based digital platform to offer Sky’s live German football coverage to its u…
Basketball

Digital terrestrial broadcaster L’Équipe TV is reportedly poised to acquire rights to the Ligue Nationale de Basket.
Football

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro is thought to have agreed a carriage deal with French telco Orange for its Téléfoot subscription service.
Handball

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport is close to finalising an agreement in France for rights to handball’s EHF Champions League from the 2020-21 season.
American Football

L'Équipe, the Amaury Group-owned free-to-air digital terrestrial channel in France, has acquired rights to show a weekly match from American football’s National Football League.