BeIN Sport (France)

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.

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

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.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports and commercial broadcaster M6 have retained the rights for the Uefa Europa League club football competition in France for three seasons, from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

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

French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus have confirmed the retention of their rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition from 2015-16 to 2017-18.

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

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

French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus have retained their rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competition from 2015-16 to 2017-18, according to L’Equipe.

French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus, along with commercial broadcaster M6, have entered bids for the rights to the Uefa Champions League club football competitions from 2015-16 to 2017-18, with the process moving to a second round of bidding, according to L’Equipe.

Five media companies have submitted proposals to acquire packages of domestic rights in the tender launched by Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, for the country’s top-tier Ligue 1 and second-tier Ligue 2, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, has said that pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is the only candidate for the next cycle of media rights for the top-tier Ligue 1 to have requested a postponement of the sales process.

BeIN Sports has submitted a formal complaint to the Autorité de la Concurrence, the French competition authority, after pay-television rival Canal Plus was awarded Top 14 rights by France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the body that operates the rugby union club competition.

Frédéric Thiriez, president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, has criticised Canal Plus after the pay-television broadcaster complained to the Autorité de la Concurrence, the country’s competition authority, about the early launch of a rights tender.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has complained to the Autorité de la Concurrence, the country’s competition authority, about the early launch of a rights tender by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league.