France

Rugby League
Media

French pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports has renewed a rights agreement with Australia’s National Rugby League (NRL) competition until 2025.
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

RMC Sport, the French subscription broadcaster owned by telco Altice, has enhanced its combat sports offering by agreeing a rights deal with Polish mixed martial arts promotion KSW
Rugby League
Media

L'Équipe has acquired broadcast rights in France to rugby league’s Super League during the 2023 season.
Rugby Union
Media

Commercial broadcaster TF1 has secured rights to show France's build-up matches prior to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, along with France's autumn internationals in both 2024 and 2025
Multiple Sports
Media

Canal Plus, the France-based pay-television broadcaster, has further increased its stake in pan-African broadcaster MultiChoice to 30.3 per cent
Handball
Media

Over 2 million Danes tuned in to public-service broadcaster DR and government-owned broadcaster TV2 to watch the national team set a new record with victory in the 2023 Men’s World Handball Championship.
Para Sport
Media

French media group L’Équipe has acquired exclusive domestic rights to the 2023 World Para Athletics Championships, which will be held in Paris ahead of next year’s Paralympic Games.
Football
Media

French pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights to the 2022 Fifa Club World Cup, which is taking place in Morocco next month
Mixed Martial Arts
Media

RMC Sport, the French subscription broadcaster owned by telco Altice, has agreed a multi-year extension to its rights deal for mixed martial arts promotion the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
Football
Finance & Law

Pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports has been forced to cease broadcasts in France of Italian Serie A football matches featuring Atalanta owing to regulatory concerns over the club’s main sponsor, financial t…
Football
Media

The Saudi Professional League and its appointed IMG agency have finalised a flurry of media rights deals ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo’s debut in the competition.
Football
Media

Douyin, Facebook, OneFootball, PSG TV, Twitch and YouTube will carry coverage of today's (Thursday's) exhibition match in Saudi Arabia between Paris Saint-Germain and Riyadh All-Star XI, that will see…
Football
Media

BeIN Media Group has acquired rights in multiple territories to this month’s friendly between Lionel Messi’s Paris Saint-Germain and a Riyadh all-star team including players from Al-Nassr, the Saudi Ara…
Rugby Union
Media

TF1 has agreed a sublicensing deal with fellow French commercial broadcaster M6 and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions for rights to the 2023 Rugby World Cup, which France is hosting from S…
Football
Industry Moves

Ben Morel, the current chief executive of Six Nations Rugby, has been named chief executive of the new commercial entity at France's Professional Football League (LFP)
Tennis
Media

The ethics committee of the French Tennis Federation (FFT) has ruled that the most important matches from the French Open should be shown on free-to-air television after the controversy surrounding the…
Football

France’s Ligue 1 will bring its global media rights to market next year faced with one clear mission: to recover as much lost ground as it can after the catastrophic collapse of its domestic media rights deal with Mediapro in 2020.
Football
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France has hailed “historic audience records” generated during its coverage of the 2022 Fifa World Cup.