France

Rugby Union

Sports streaming service FloSports has agreed a three-season deal to show matches of the cross-border Pro14 rugby union league in multiple markets, from 2018-19 to 2020-21.
Cycling

The International Cycling Union (UCI) and its partner, the European Broadcasting Union consortium of public-service broadcasters, have hailed record viewing figures for the recently concluded 2018 Road…
Tennis

Sports broadcaster Eurosport is set to become the home of nearly all top men’s tennis rights in France, according to newspaper L’Équipe. Eu
Motorsport

Sports broadcaster Eurosport has had its grip on MotoGP rights across Europe weakened in recent times, despite its renewal of rights in the Netherlands.
Horse Racing

Sky Sports Racing, which is set to become the new identity for pay-television channel At The Races, has acquired exclusive rights in the UK and Ireland to a host of French horse-racing properties
Football

Maxime Saada, chairman of the board of Canal Plus (pictured, right), has said the French pay-television broadcaster will continue to show Ligue 1 matches after 2020
Boxing

Fight Sports, the linear sports channel and digital service, has secured exclusive rights in over 30 countries to the upcoming boxing title fight between Carl Frampton and Luke Jackson
American Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has extended its rights deal in France for American football league the NFL.

Tennis

The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organising body of Wimbledon, has renewed deals for the grand slam tournament with broadcast partners in France, Spain, Japan and the Middle East and North Africa.

France Télévisions, M6 and TF1, three of France’s leading media groups, will join forces to launch a new OTT platform in the country.

Football

US technology company Oculus has said it will provide live streaming of select Fifa World Cup matches through Oculus Venues, its new app for social co-viewing.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has extended a rights deal in France for Serie A, the top division of Italian football.

Football

Ligue 1 sells domestic rights for €1.1
Rugby League

The RDA agency will look to extract more value from Australia and New Zealand and strike deals in the Pacific Islands for the first time, after taking over international rights to the Super League.

Football

French free-to-air sports broadcaster L'Équipe has extended its deal with Uefa, European club football’s governing body, for rights to the European Under-19 Championship.

Football

Spanish agency Mediapro has said it has no intention of sublicensing rights to Ligue 1 and will instead rely on striking carriage deals for its planned new channel for the top division of French club football, while telco Altice has unveiled a new look to its sports media offering in France.

Football

Spanish agency Mediapro has said it will form a dedicated football channel open to all “premium TV operators” in France after securing the lion’s share of rights to Ligue 1, the top tier of domestic club football.

Football

The Ligue de Football Professionnel has secured a 60 per cent increase in value for the domestic rights to Ligue 1 through deals with Spanish agency Mediapro and pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports, with the agreements ending the status of pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus as the long-time home of the top-tier competition.