BeIN Sport (France)

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is in talks to buy beIN Sports, with a target completion date for the deal of before the summer, according to French media reports
Handball

BeIN Media Group has told SportBusiness Media it is in talks with various parties for the domestic free-to-air rights for the Ligue Nationale de Handball competition from 2019 to 2023; one of these parties is understood to be French digital-terrestrial channel L’Équipe TV.
Handball

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has renewed a rights agreement in France for the domestic Ligue Nationale de Handball (LNH) competition. The new four-season deal will run from 2019-20 to 2022-23
Football

Spanish agency Mediapro and pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports have today (Tuesday) secured domestic rights to Ligue 2, with the French Football League (LFP) reporting a near three-fold increase in…
Handball

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has struck a deal for the next four men’s and women’s International Handball World Championships.
Football

The French Football League (LFP) is in talks with its international rights distributor, beIN Media Group, after a group of Ligue 1 clubs raised questions over the value of the top division’s overseas r…
Tennis

Sports broadcaster Eurosport is set to become the home of nearly all top men’s tennis rights in France, according to newspaper L’Équipe. Eu

BeIN to pay about €23m per season for Serie A in France, from 2018-19 to 2020-21 Previous beIN deal, from 2015-16 to 2017-18, was worth about €16m per season F
Football

Ligue 1 sells domestic rights for €1.1
Football

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.

Football

Competition between sports-rights agencies has helped Spain’s LaLiga grow the value of its media rights in several new deals across Europe.

Football

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has renewed rights to LaLiga, the top division of football in Spain, according to French daily newspaper L’Équipe.

Rugby Union

European Professional Club Rugby increased the value of its media rights in France by about 50 per cent late last month from deals with beIN Sports and France Télévisions.
Football

Strong competition is expected between France’s main pay-television broadcasters for Uefa Champions League, Formula One and European rugby rights, with all three properties currently on the market.

France’s competition authority, l'Autorité de la Concurrence, has blocked an exclusive carriage deal between Canal Plus and pay-television rival beIN Sports.

Baseball

North America’s Major League Baseball has confirmed renewals of a swathe of rights deals for the new 2016 season.

Canal Plus has confirmed that it has agreed a five-year deal, from 2016 to 2020, to become the exclusive carriage partner in France for rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports’ channels.

Vivendi-owned Canal Plus has signed an exclusive distribution deal with rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France, according to daily newspaper Le Monde.