France

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

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

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.

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

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…

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.

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

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…

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

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.

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

French rugby set for gains

Uefa doubles its money in France but audiences will fall

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