France

Rugby Union

UK pay-television broadcaster BSkyB has acquired rights to the Top 14, France’s top-tier rugby union club competition.

Rugby Union

A tender for the French broadcast rights to the new European club rugby union competitions will be launched next month, according to Paul Goze, president of the Ligue Nationale de Rugby, which operates the domestic top-tier Top 14 competition.

Football

Leading figures from the French football and media industries voiced strong and colourful opinions on last week's Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 domestic media rights deals to local media

Football

French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus have confirmed the retention of their rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

Rugby Union

The structure of the two new European club rugby competitions, the Rugby Champions Cup and the Rugby Challenge Cup, beginning in the 2014-15 season

Football

The LFP believes the outcome of last week’s auction for the media rights to Ligue 1 was a moderate success, and that it could not have done much better given market conditions

Football

Last Friday’s French football league rights auction put a large hole in the theory that Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is an unstoppable force bent on dominating the local market

Rugby Union

Clubs are real winners from BT-Sky sharing deal for European rugby

Cricket

If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.

Multinational cable and telecommunications company Altice has secured complete control of French pay-television operator Ma Chaîne Sport and the Kombat Sport pay-television channel.

Rugby Union

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines television audiences in the home markets for this year’s Six Nations Championship L
Football

French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus have retained their rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition from 2015-16 to 2017-18, according to L’Equipe.

Football

French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus, along with commercial broadcaster M6, have entered bids for the rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competitions from 2015-16 to 2017-18, with the process moving to a second round of bidding, according to L’Equipe.

Football

Canal Plus has acquired rights in France for the two main packages of the next cycle of domestic rights for Ligue 1, the country’s top division of football, while rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired the other four packages.

Martial Arts

French digital-terrestrial-television channel L’Equipe 21 has acquired live broadcast rights to the 2014 European Judo Championships.

Football

Five media companies have submitted proposals to acquire packages of domestic rights in the tender launched by Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, for the country’s top-tier Ligue 1 and second-tier Ligue 2, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

Football

The Court of Appeal in Paris has rejected a final attempt by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus to delay a tender of the next cycle of rights to domestic football’s top-tier Ligue 1 and second-tier Ligue 2.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus’s bid to postpone a media rights tender launched by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, was dismissed today (Friday) by the country’s Tribunal de Grande Instance law court.