France

Football

MP & Silva drops Perform to handle its own digital rights but the Sportsman Media Group could be the real winner
Basketball

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has agreed a four-year deal, from 2013 to 2016, for the rights for the British Open, the US Open and the US PGA Championship, three of golf’s four biggest t…

Sport365, the news television channel of French media company Media365, will launch on September 15
Tennis

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights for ATP World Tour 500 and ATP World Tour Masters 1000 men’s tennis tournaments from now until the end of the 2013 season.
Football

Battles for BT and beIN Sport productions
Tennis

WTA drops Eurosport to go market by market
Football

Charles Biétry, the vice-president of beIN Sport, said he would be delighted if the new French pay-television broadcaster acquired rights for the English Premier League, but insisted the Al-Jazeera-owned …
Handball

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights for the country’s handball cup competition for two seasons, from 2012-13 to 2013-14, according to L’Équipe. Ca
Football

Eurosport France, the French arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has acquired exclusive live rights to all matches involving French football club Olympique Lyonnais in the 2012-13 Uefa women’s C…

Al Jazeera’s beIN Sport French pay-television sports service, which launched last month, already has “several hundred thousand” customers, according to Charles Biétry, beIN Sport’s vice-president. Biétr
Football

Despite a healthy increase in TV rights fees, Uefa still faces questions on Europa League

American Football

Yet another commercial overhaul for Uefa?
Tennis

Silva set to add a year to Open deal
Football

Frédéric Thiriez, president of the French football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, said that the total income generated by the tender for the next cycle of domestic rights covering the country’s top…

French satellite and digital-terrestrial television platform CanalSat has agreed a carriage deal with beIN Sport, Al Jazeera’s new pay-television operation in France.
Athletics

Canal Plus has acquired rights for the remaining eight meetings on the 2012 International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League calendar from fellow French pay-television broadcaster Orange…
Handball

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has acquired the rights in France to handball’s European Champions League in a five-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2016-17, from the MP & Silva agency.
Football

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has agreed four-year deals with pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera and Eurosport France, the French arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport,…