France

Al Jazeera’s new French pay-television operation is struggling to secure distribution for its sports channels on the country’s dominant pay-television platform, Canal Plus. Ta

Jean-Thierry Augustin, the general manager of TV distribution, rights acquisitions and development at sports broadcaster Eurosport, has been confirmed as the fourth keynote speaker at TVSM Live, a new…
Rugby Union

The rights in France for the Rugby World Cup in 2015 and 2019 have been put on sale
Football

Advertising spots during Euro 2012 coverage on Al Jazeera’s French pay-television sports channel BeIN Sport 1 are being offered for as little as €500 ($655), a tiny fraction of the rates charged by the…
Football

EBU pays healthy increase for World Cup despite recession
Football

Euros value drops by nearly 7% across top 5 European markets

Football

Al Jazeera stocks up in US ahead of channel launch
Golf

Sky muscles out BBC
Football

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has launched a tender for the media rights for Ligue 2, the country’s second-tier football league, for four seasons, from 2012-13 to 2015-16.

Digital media company Perform has agreed a deal for its Livesport.tv live sports streaming service to be available on electronics company LG’s Cinema 3D Smart internet-connected television sets. Livesport.t
Golf

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has retained rights for golf’s Ryder Cup, European Tour, PGA Tour and World Golf Championship events in a four-year deal with the IMG agency, from 2013 to 2…
Football

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has agreed two-tournament deals in France for the European Championships in 2012 and 2016 with commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6, and pay-television broadcaster A…
Football

French pay-television operator Ma Chaîne Sport has failed in a bid to stop the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, from launching a tender for the media rights for Ligue 2, the …

Rodolph Belmer, the deputy chief executive of French pay-television operator Canal Plus, said rival pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera would not pose a risk to his company’s business model, as long a…
Basketball

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus will continue to show La Ligue Nationale de Basket, the French basketball league, for the next five years, after a new rights deal was agreed

French telecommunications company Orange’s pay-television sports and film channels accumulated losses of €630 million in their first three full years of operation, from 2008 to 2010, according to French new…

A joint-venture between pay-television channel L’Equipe TV and the French Olympic committee has been granted one of six new digital-terrestrial television channel licences in France after the application w…
Tennis

French pay-television channel Orange Sport will broadcast the 2012 French Open tennis tournament, from May 27 to June 10, before shutting down, according to Le Parisien