France

Olympique de Marseille was the top-earning side from French Ligue 1’s media rights income in 2012-13.

The IMG Media agency has launched the sales process for rights in France to the Wimbledon tennis tournament, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

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French digital terrestrial television channel TMC has secured the exclusive live domestic broadcast rights to the 2013 Fifa Confederations Cup.

France’s Sports Minister, Valerie Fourneyron, has warned the French Tennis Federation the French Open tennis grand slam must remain on free-to-air television.

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French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sport has acquired the rights to the next three editions of French football’s Trophée des Champions, from 2013 to 2015.

Ligue 1 football club Paris Saint-Germain has agreed a five-year extension to its partnership with Emirates, according to French media reports.

Amaury Sport Organisation does an early deal to renew its domestic rights deal for the Tour de France with French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, taking advantage of the weakness of its commercial rivals.

Public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has retained rights for the Tour de France cycling race as part of a deal with event promoter Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) that will run for five years, from 2016 to 2020.

Christine Kelly, the head of sport at the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel, France’s media regulator, has said that the Uefa Champions League, European football’s top club competition, and the Formula One motor-racing championship, could be added to the French government’s list of sporting events that are protected for free-to-air television.

The French Open tennis grand slam at Roland Garros will continue to be primarily broadcast on terrestrial, free-to-air television in France, the French tennis federation has announced as it prepares to…

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has launched a sales process for the domestic rights to the Trophée des Champions, an annual football match between the winners of the …

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