France

Football

Joye Media, the parent company of Spanish agency and production group Mediapro, has been downgraded by credit rating agency Moody’s amid doubts relating to Mediapro’s rights agreement with France’s Profe…
Football

Jaume Roures, chief executive of Mediapro today (Wednesday) maintained that the agency and production group is committed to its French football pay-television service Téléfoot but doubts persist over i…
Football

The dispute between France’s Professional Football League (LFP) and its domestic broadcast rights-holder Mediapro, the agency and production group, has intensified after the league body referred its c…
Rugby Union

Canal Plus will show the French Top 14 rugby union match between Toulon and Brive on its C8 free-to-air channel
Football

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has served formal notice on Spanish agency and production group Mediapro to pay its outstanding October invoice for the domestic broadcast rights to the country’s top-…
Tennis

Sunday afternoon’s French Open final between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic attracted strong audience figures on French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions.
Football

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has reacted to delays in its next media-rights payment from Mediapro, the agency and production group, by looking to put in place a bank loan so that clubs c…
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

Mixed martial arts promotions are awaiting a fresh ruling from French media regulator the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) after Bellator was forced to resort to live streaming its highly-awaited …
American Football

The National Football League has seen a fall in its media-rights income from France in the 2020-23 cycle driven by a decline in the value of its deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN, SportBusiness Media understands.
Football

France’s Division 1 Féminine, the top tier of women’s football in the country, is to receive broadcast coverage in the US, UK, Germany and Italy from the 2020-21 season.
Football

Concerns have been raised among French football clubs after it emerged that Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has asked for more time to make its second broadcast rights fee instalment payment…
Motorsport

Formula 1 fans in France will be able to watch free-to-air coverage of the races in Portugal and Emilia Romagna in Italy after commercial network TF1 revealed its scheduling plans
Basketball

The French Basketball Federation (FFBB) sacrificed domestic media-rights income from its club competitions in order to reboot the sport in free-to-air deals with digital terrestrial broadcasters L’Équipe TV and ‘Sport in France’, SportBusiness Media understands.
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