BeIN Sport (France)

Rugby Union

The Court of Appeal in Paris has dismissed an appeal by the Ligue Nationale de Rugby and pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over the decision to suspend their rights deal for the Top 14 rugby union league.

Football

Jacques Lambert, the head of the local organising committee for the Uefa Euro 2016, is hopeful more games from the national team football tournament in France will end up being shown on free-to-air television in the country.

Football

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.

Rugby Union

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.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports this (Wednesday) morning confirmed a rights deal for rugby union’s new European club rugby tournaments.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has struck a deal to acquire rights for rugby union’s new European club rugby tournaments, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

Football

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired exclusive rights for the Argentinian Primera Division, the top division of football in the country.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has followed the English Premier League in vowing to clamp down on footage of goals from its football matches being shown online through video-sharing service Vine.

Athletics

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has announced it will launch a new multi-sports channel next month.

Rugby Union

France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR) has been ordered to launch a tender process at the end of the 2014-15 season for the rights to the Top 14 after the Autorité de la Concurrence, the French competition authority, suspended the league’s five-year deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

Rugby Union

Organisers of the World Club 7s have announced that the 2014 edition of the rugby union sevens tournament will be available in 200 million households worldwide.

Football

Olivier Schrameck, the president of the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel, has said that there is a need for the French media regulator to intervene in sports-rights negotiations to ensure major events are available on free-to-air television.

Canal Plus has had a demand for €293m ($398m) in compensation from rival French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports thrown out by the Tribunal de Commerce business court.

Football

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.

Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has signed a six-year extension, covering the 2018-19 to 2023-24 seasons, for its global rights deal for Ligue 1, the top division of French football.

Basketball

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.

Yousef Al-Obaidly has been promoted to the role of president of pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports France.

Volleyball

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired media rights for the World Volleyball League national team tournament.