France

Ligue 1 champion Paris Saint-Germain was the top-earning side from the top division of French football’s media rights income in the 2013-14 season, according to French newspaper L’Équipe.

European Professional Club Rugby, the new European governing body for club rugby, has launched a tender for the broadcast rights to the new Champions Cup and Challenge Cup competitions in France.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has signed a six-year extension, covering the 2018-19 to 2023-24 seasons, for its global rights deal for Ligue 1, the top division of French football.

Cumulative free-to-air television audiences across the big five markets increase for this season's Uefa Europa League, as Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

Yousef Al-Obaidly has been promoted to the role of president of pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired media rights for the World Volleyball League national team tournament.

French digital-terrestrial television channel L’Equipe 21 has acquired rights for several international football friendly matches ahead of the 2014 Fifa World Cup national team tournament.

Uefa enjoyed differing levels of success in the sales of its club competition rights in France and Southeast Asia last month. The outcome points to a cooling of the French market but suggests there is still margin for substantial growth in several major Asian territories.

Eurosport France, the French arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has agreed a three-year contract extension to be the exclusive broadcaster of the MotoGP motorcycling series in the French territory until the end of the 2017 season.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports and commercial broadcaster M6 have retained the rights for the Uefa Europa League club football competition in France for three seasons, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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