France
Watching Brief (Vol.60) Special Focus: Cycling – Tour de France
BeIN Sport nears subscriber payment threshold
The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, is set to benefit from increased revenues from its rights deal with beIN Sport as the pay-television broadcaster edges towards the 1.5 million subscriber mark, according to L’Equipe.
Watching Brief (Vol.62) Special Focus: Athletics – World Athletics Championships
LNR sets date for broadcast rights meetings
France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby, which operates the domestic top-tier Top 14 rugby union club competition, has launched a consultation period for the renegotiation of its media rights, with meetings set for September 24-25 to discuss different options.
NCAA basketball secures new broadcast partner in France
French basic-tier sports broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has agreed a three-year deal to broadcast National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball.
MCS snaps up Championnat National rights
French basic-tier sports broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport has agreed a three-year deal, covering the 2013-14 to 2015-16 seasons, for the rights to the Championnat National, the third-tier of French club football.
BeIN Sport scores Women’s Champions League rights
French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired broadcast rights to the 2013-14 season of the Uefa Women’s Champions League club football competition.
FFT makes three packages available for French Open rights
Fédération Française de Tennis, the governing body of tennis in France, has launched a domestic tender split into three separate packages for the next cycle of media rights to the French Open tournament.
French Open domestic rights tender set to launch
BeIN Sport tipped to take tennis rights off Canal Plus
Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport is close to deals for the rights in France to the Wimbledon tennis championships and ATP men’s tournaments, according to L’Équipe.
Watching Brief (Vol.60) Special Focus: Football – Fifa Confederations Cup
BeIN Sport nets rights to Handball-Bundesliga
Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired rights in France to the Handball-Bundesliga, the top division of handball in Germany.
LNR sets timeframe for decision on Canal Plus deal
France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby, which operates the domestic top-tier Top 14 rugby union club competition, will make a decision on whether to cancel its current rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus by the middle of October.
L’Equipe 21 in European football deal
French digital-terrestrial-television channel L’Equipe 21 has acquired live rights for this week’s Uefa Europa League play-off first leg match between French team Saint-Etienne and Danish team Esbjerg.
French Top 14 clubs set to scrap Canal Plus deal
France’s top rugby union clubs are set to activate a cancellation clause in their current domestic league rights deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus in an attempt to negotiate a more lucrative agreement, according to French newspaper L’Equipe.
French government ponders change to sports rights law – report
The French government is considering implementing major changes to its tax law on broadcast rights for sporting events, according to Le Figaro newspaper.
French regulator launches rights consultation
French media regulator the CSA is undertaking a consultation on rules covering sports highlights rights distribution in the country, according to the Digital TV Europe website.