France

Bids for a domestic package of rights in France to the Coupe de France football club knockout competitions for men and women and Division 1 Féminine, the country’s top division of women’s football, have failed to meet the reserve price, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

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BeIN Sports has warned that it could take legal action over the sudden award of Top 14 media rights to rival pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus by France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the body that operates the rugby union club competition.

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Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions is unlikely to acquire rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament, according to director of sport Daniel Bilalian.

Canal Plus has extended a rights deal for the Top 14 just days after France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the body that operates the rugby union club competition, said it had postponed a domestic rights tender after becoming the subject of legal action by the French pay-television broadcaster.

Daniel Bilalian, the director of sport at France Télévisions, has said that the public-service broadcaster would only be prepared to show an officially-recognised European rugby union competition.

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the league body that operates the country's top-tier Top 14 and second-tier ProD2 rugby union divisions, has postponed a domestic rights tender after becoming the subject of legal action by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

Canal Plus has called for rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports to be barred from competing in the tender for the next cycle of domestic rights to the top tier of French football, Ligue 1.

The French government’s proposed amendment to the country’s so-called ‘Buffet’ tax on sports broadcasts has been rejected by the Conseil Constitutionnel, the country’s top constitutional body.

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.

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.

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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.