France

American Football

American Football: US networks CBS, Fox and NBC acquired rights for the NFL in nine-year deals, from 2014-15 to 2022-23, worth a combined $3.1bn (€2.4bn) per year.
Football

Football: Fifa, football’s world governing body, agreed deals with pan-European broadcaster Eurosport and US network Fox for rights to the Club World Cup.
Rugby Union

French rugby set for gains
Football

Uefa doubles its money in France but audiences will fall

Football

Fifa maintains free-to-air commitments for 2018-2022; Five markets, but no rights, carved out of European tender
American Football

American Football: The NFL Network, the pay-television broadcaster owned by the NFL, agreed a content deal with Outcast, operators of a petrol station digital TV network with 12,000 screens in stations…
Football

Wanted: French home for acquisitive Al Jazeera... Eredivisie Live battling for content... SPL plays safe with Sky and ESPN... Conmebol confirms Full Play deal

Football

France could be the key to FA hopes of European boost

L’Equipe TV, the pay-television channel run by French sports newspaper L’Equipe, and sports news website RMC Sport were among the 34 applicants for six digital-terrestrial television licences set to be …
Football

Pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and Al Jazeera were asked by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, to present their final offers for the remaining broadcast rights for…
Football

French telco Orange has refused to submit a third offer for mobile rights for French Ligue 1 football, after having doubled its initial offer to €20 million ($25.6

Qatar Holding, the investment arm of sovereign wealth fund the Qatar Investment Authority, said that it had no plans to take over French conglomerate Lagardère, despite becoming its largest shareholder …
Football

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus will close its 3D channel on January 24 due to a lack of interest from viewers

The Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français, the French Olympic committee, selected L’Equipe TV, the pay-television channel owned by daily sports newspaper L’Equipe, to act as a partner for a pro…

Charles Bietry, the director of Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera’s new sports pay-television operation in France, defended his company after Bertrand Meheut, the chief executive of pay-television rival C…
Handball

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions acquired rights for the Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH), the domestic handball league, in a sublicensing agreement with pay-television operator C…
Football

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus was reported by Le Parisien to be considering a higher-than-expected bid for the remaining French Ligue 1 football rights after submitting an unsuccessful bid…
Basketball

Basketball: The MP & Silva agency brokered several deals for the Spanish league, the ACB, beginning this season