France

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus enjoyed record ratings for its coverage of the dramatic conclusion to the Ligue 1 football season

Al Jazeera holds the key to two big rights tenders but may not bid in either of them

Premier League has listened to ESPN, now it's up to ESPN to decide if it wants to compete with the big boys

Fiba teams up with Leenders and Klooz in 'innovative' move

Champions League value up by 30% in top 5 European markets

The French football league, the Ligue de Football Professionnel, assigned the video-on-demand rights to Ligue 1, the country’s top division, to Dailymotion.fr, L’Equipe.fr

Telecommunications company Orange has sealed a carriage deal for pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera’s new sports channels in France.

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions is the favourite to retain rights for France national team Test rugby union matches from July 2012 to June 2016.

Pay-television broadcasters Al Jazeera and Eurosport France are the two remaining bidders in the tender for the media rights for Ligue 2, the French football league’s second tier.

Sky v Telekom battle helps German league to 50 per cent rise; Saturday internet highlights proposal not a game-changer

Uefa positions itself nicely to cherry-pick top markets

Uefa looking for huge increase in value for third-party qualifier rights to hit ambitious target

Spanish crisis lets in Mediaset for one-year French Open deal

Four of the sport broadcasting industry’s most respected figures will speak at the first TVSM Live event in Paris on Thursday, May 10.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus’s future sports rights-buying could be restricted if the country’s competition watchdog, the Autorité de la Concurrence, acts upon recommendations from the …

France Ô, a free-to-air channel owned by public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, has acquired rights for a four-part television series about mixed martial arts, despite the sport being banned fr…