France

Football

Fédération Française de Football, the governing body of football in France, has invited bids for a series of rights that include the Coupe de France club knockout competition and the France national U-21 team.

Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has retained exclusive media rights for France national football team friendly matches and qualifiers for the 2018 Fifa World Cup tournament.

Motorsport

A championship dominated by one driver, now four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, and the continued shift of live race coverage from free-to air to pay-television coincided with a drop in average…
Rugby Union

Canal Plus offers more than double but it's still not enough to hang on to Top 14

Motorsport

Pauline McVey, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, examines live television audiences in Europe’s five largest markets for motor cycling’s MotoGP World Championship The
Rugby Union

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby, the league body that operates the country's top-tier Top 14 and second-tier ProD2 rugby union divisions, has curtailed a rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus and announced the launch of a new domestic rights tender.

French news agency AFP has agreed a partnership with Chinese media company Hupu Sports Media to launch a Chinese-language sports service offering video content.
 

Tennis

Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions is close to agreeing an extension to its rights deal for the French Open tennis tournament, according to L’Equipe.

Rugby Union

TF1 deal keeps IRB on course for 'richest World Cup ever' in 2015

Tennis

BeIN Sport nabs Wimbledon rights in France but has to settle for a share of the ATP events with Canal Plus

Football

Nonce Paolini, chief executive of the TF1 Group, has said the commercial broadcaster’s rights to the France national football team are “not indispensable” with the European qualifiers for the Uefa Euro 2016 and 2018 Fifa World Cup national team tournaments currently on the market.

Tennis

French digital-terrestrial television broadcaster W9 has agreed a three-year extension to its rights deal for the ATP World Tour Finals and the BNP Paribas Masters men’s tennis tournaments.

Football

Pauline McVey analyses domestic audiences on free-to-air television for the Fifa World Cup 2014 qualifiers in Europe’s five biggest markets, and in Portugal L
Tennis

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired exclusive domestic rights for the Wimbledon tennis championships and the men’s ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and 500 series plus the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals.

Rugby Union

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has acquired rights for the 2015 Rugby World Cup, which will take place in England.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired the rights to a host of rugby union games during the autumn internationals season.

Football

Online video company Base79 has signed a partnership with Paris Saint-Germain in a deal that aims to enhance the French Ligue 1 football club’s presence on video-sharing website YouTube.

Football

Sports broadcaster Eurosport has acquired rights in France for the 2014 Women’s Rugby World Cup, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.