France

Rugby League

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera has acquired rights in France for two rugby league competitions, the English Super League and Australian National Rugby League, according to the Fédération Française de…
Volleyball

The Ligue Nationale de Volley, the French volleyball league, agreed a deal with video-sharing website Daily Motion for internet rights to the men’s and women’s domestic leagues for the remainder of the…
Football

CFoot, the digital-terrestrial television channel owned by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, will close down at the end of the 2011-12 football season in France, according…
Football

The Team Marketing agency set a deadline of February 10 for a third round of bidding in the tender for the rights in France for the Uefa Europa League football tournament for the three years from 2012-13…
Rugby Union

French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6, and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, the incumbent rights-holder, submitted bids for the domestic rights for France national team Test rugby union m…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera agreed a deal with the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, for the one remaining package of live domestic rights for the top-tier Ligue 1,…
Football

FA up in Europe despite weaker rights package and recession

Football

Eurozone crisis not the only challenge facing sports rights agencies in 2012
Rugby Union

Bids are due in today, January 26, for the domestic media rights for France national team Test rugby union matches from July 2012 to June 2016
Football

Pierre Fraidenraich was appointed as the new rights acquisitions director at the sports division of Canal Plus, the French pay-television broadcaster, according to l’Equipe.
Football

Foot Plus, French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus’s pay-television football channel, will close at the end of the 2011-12 season, according to l’Equipe. T
Football

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has entered into an exclusive negotiating period with Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster Al Jazeera for live Ligue 1 rights, eliminating…
Football

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired rights for the domestic football league cup, the Coupe de la Ligue, in a four-year deal, from 2012-13 to 2015-16.
Football

French pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and Al Jazeera presented their final offers today, January 23, in the tender for the remaining broadcast rights for French Ligue 1
Football

Coverage of the Coupe de la Ligue, France’s football league cup, could move off free-to-air television after pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus offered about €15 million ($19 million) per year for dom…
Football

Final bids for the domestic rights for the Coupe de la Ligue, the French football league cup, for the 2012-13 to 2015-16 period were due today
Basketball

Alain Béral, president of La Ligue Nationale de Basket, the French basketball league, said he was not satisfied by the level of exposure the league is getting in its existing domestic rights deal with …

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions will launch a 3D television channel to cover the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to Le Parisien.