France

Rugby Union

The Court of Appeal in Paris has dismissed an appeal by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over the decision to suspend their rights deal for the Top 14 rugby union league.

Football

Jacques Lambert, the head of the local organising committee for the Uefa Euro 2016, is hopeful more games from the national team football tournament in France will end up being shown on free-to-air television in the country.

Rugby Union

French public-service broadcaster France Televisions has finalised a rights deal for coverage of rugby union’s new European club tournaments.

Francois Pellissier has been named as the new head of sports-rights acquisitions at French commercial broadcaster TF1.

Athletics

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in key European markets for last month’s European Athletics Championships

Football

French basic-tier sports broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has acquired rights for the Greek Super League, the top division of football in the country.

Ice Hockey

French media group L’Equipe has signed a one-year extension to its rights deal with the French Ice Hockey Federation (FFHG), covering the 2014-15 season of the Ligue Magnus, the top division of ice hockey in the country.

Football

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports picked up the rights to the Argentinian Primera División this week in a deal with the Pitch International agency.

Cycling

Eurosport France, the French arm of the pan-regional broadcaster, has renewed its non-exclusive domestic rights to cycling’s Tour de France.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports easily beat its main rival Canal Plus to land rights to European rugby’s new club tournaments, adding evidence to claims that the previously intense competition between the two broadcasters is cooling.

Rugby Union

The Court of Appeal in Paris has set a date of October 9 to deliver its verdict in the appeal by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over the decision to suspend their rights deal for the Top 14 rugby union league.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports this (Wednesday) morning confirmed a rights deal for rugby union’s new European club rugby tournaments.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has struck a deal to acquire rights for rugby union’s new European club rugby tournaments, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

Football

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired exclusive rights for the Argentinian Primera Division, the top division of football in the country.

Rugby Union

The Court of Appeal in Paris will hear the appeals of the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over the decision to suspend their rights deal for the Top 14 rugby union league on September 4.

Daniel Bilalian, the director of sport at France Télévisions, has called for a ban to be lifted on advertising on the public-service broadcaster in the evening.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has followed the English Premier League in vowing to clamp down on footage of goals from its football matches being shown online through video-sharing service Vine.

Cycling

Mike Kiernan, Analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, looks at audiences in key European markets for the 2014 Tour de France