BeIN Sports (France)
Mediapro ‘bias’ claims cast cloud over Champions League award in France
UK, France may drive global Champions League revenue downturn
French women’s top-tier handball carve-out may have damaged coverage prospects
L’Équipe TV among parties in talks with beIN over French Handball League free-to-air sublicensing rights
IMG earns strong Serie A increase from incumbent beIN in France
Ligue 1 ‘happy but not surprised’ by 60% domestic fee increase
Didier Quillot, chief executive, Ligue de Football Professionnel
Interview with Didier Quillot, chief executive of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, about the league’s new domestic media-rights deals for Ligue 1, from 2020-21 to 2023-24.
Strong agency competition helps LaLiga grow revenues in Europe
Competition between sports-rights agencies has helped Spain’s LaLiga grow the value of its media rights in several new deals across Europe.
BeIN pays up for EPCR rights in France as UK deal draws closer
Competition heats up in France with three big tenders out
Fifa makes gains, both big and small, in key French market
Fifa secured only a small increase in the value of the men’s World Cup in France last month, signing deals with TF1 and beIN Sports for its 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
Unexpected Altice bid outflanks rivals for Premier League, continuing telco trend
Telco Altice last week blindsided French broadcasters to acquire Premier League rights in the country with a knockout first-round bid.
Talks over WTA deal in France at an advanced stage
The Perform Group is in advanced talks over a deal for Women’s Tennis Association rights in France from 2017, TV Sports Markets understands.
Sport Plus closure gives MCS chance to build portfolio
The closure of Canal Plus-owned sports channel Sport Plus has provided French basic-tier broadcaster Ma Chaîne Sport with another opportunity to boost its portfolio, after last month’s deal for domestic basketball rights.
Mixed results so far as NFL rolls out across Europe
The National Football League has endured mixed fortunes in its early deals in Europe, earning increases in Germany and France but seeing the value of its rights fall in the Netherlands.
Latest crop of deals help Bundesliga to more than double global rights fees
The German Bundesliga is set to more than double its international rights value from 2015-16 onwards following a host of deals agreed in recent weeks.
MCS kept out of Argentinian deal
French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports picked up the rights to the Argentinian Primera División this week in a deal with the Pitch International agency.
BeIN takes new club competition from hesitant Canal Plus
French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports easily beat its main rival Canal Plus to land rights to European rugby’s new club tournaments, adding evidence to claims that the previously intense competition between the two broadcasters is cooling.
Ligue 1 follows trend of private deals
France’s top football league, Ligue 1, has become the third major rights-holder in just over a month to renew a long-term media-rights deal many years in advance without an open tender.
Matt Brabants, SVP, global media distribution and business operations, and Elsa Memmi, VP, global media distribution – EMEA, NBA
Interviews with Matt Brabants, senior vice president of global media distribution and business operations, and Elsa Memmi, vice president of global media distribution across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on the NBA’s global media rights strategy.
Qatar keeps heat on in Southeast Asia but eases off the gas in France
Uefa enjoyed differing levels of success in the sales of its club competition rights in France and Southeast Asia last month. The outcome points to a cooling of the French market but suggests there is still margin for substantial growth in several major Asian territories.
French football and media industries react to the Ligue 1 deals
Leading figures from the French football and media industries voiced strong and colourful opinions on last week's Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 domestic media rights deals to local media
Ligue 1’s Ficot: The market has spoken, but our momentum is positive
The LFP believes the outcome of last week’s auction for the media rights to Ligue 1 was a moderate success, and that it could not have done much better given market conditions
Ligue 1 says it is ‘satisfied’ with modest increase as beIN holds its fire
Last Friday’s French football league rights auction put a large hole in the theory that Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is an unstoppable force bent on dominating the local market