France

Football

TWI is understood to have paid only $2 million a year for the international rights of the French Ligue 1.

Football

French commercial broadcaster TF1 and the French Football Federation could be forced to scrap a controversial one-year extension to their deal for the rights for French football internationals.
Football

Commercial broadcasters have questioned the effectiveness of the rights sublicensing scheme drawn up to placate the European Commission by the EBU.

Basketball

Handball: Danish public-service broadcaster Danmarks Radio acquired the rights to both men’s and women’s Champions League competitions from the European Handball Federation in a five-year deal, from 2006-07 to 2010-11.

Football

UK broadcaster Channel 4 says that it is not taking a gamble in broadcasting French Ligue 1 football
Football

English football’s Premier League will be at the heart of the battle for subscribers to third-generation mobile telephony
Football

The request for tenders for the French football league’s television rights looks very much geared towards Canal Plus winning all the key rights
Basketball

The Euroleague has secured much-improved deals in two of its key territories
Rugby Union

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions, commercial broadcaster TF1 and pay-broadcaster Canal Plus look set to compete for the rights for rugby union’s World Cups in 2007 and 2011
Football

Three of biggest clubs are threatening to undermine the tender process with demands for a bigger share of television rights fees.
Bobsleigh/skeleton

Rugby union: Pay-television operator British Sky Broadcasting acquired the live rights for English international and domestic rugby in a five-year deal, 2005-06 to 2009-10, with the Rugby Football Union, the sport’s national governing body, and Premier Rugby, the umbrella body of the country’s top-tier clubs.

Football

Football: A consortium of pan– Scandinavian free-to-air broadcasters acquired the live and delayed rights for all 64 matches for the 2006 World Cup in a deal with the Infront Sports & Media agency

Football

The general wisdom is that the French football league will bring in a record fee at the end of this year
Football

The Infront agency is in talks with several broadcasters in France about the 40 matches of the 2006 World Cup
Cricket

Cricket:  The Board of Control for Cricket in India, after extensive legal wrangles, finally signed a deal for the Indian rights to the three tours taking place this year, a four-Test series against Australia, a two-Test series against South Africa and a one-off one-day international against Pakistan, with state broadcaster Doordarshan.

Athletics

Double threat to Eurosport from Eurosport-sceptics within EBU, and EC investigation into EBU collective selling
Football

French Ligue 1 football clubs are set to be given the power to sell the rights to their home matches on a delayed, as-live basis.

The Athens Olympics attracted impressive ratings for Europe’s public-service broadcasters