BeIN Sport (France)

Interview with Etienne Capon, director general of the Ligue Nationale de Handball, on the league’s new media-rights deal with pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights for the 2014 Fifa World Cup national football team tournament in a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster TF1.

French pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is close to agreeing a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster TF1 for rights to the 2014 Fifa World Cup national football team tournament, according to weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.

French football federation enjoys increase in rights fee for domestic cup

The Pitch International agency has struck rights deals with four broadcasters for SpursTV, the weekly television programming package dedicated to English Premier League top-tier football club Tottenham Hotspur.

Top 14 rights saga is case study in the use of market power

Bids for a domestic package of rights in France to the Coupe de France football club knockout competitions for men and women and Division 1 Féminine, the country’s top division of women’s football, have failed to meet the reserve price, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

TF1 pays less for France matches but Uefa still happy with deal

TF1’s Le Lay says focus is now on major events

BeIN Sports has warned that it could take legal action over the sudden award of Top 14 media rights to rival pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus by France’s Ligue Nationale de Rugby (LNR), the body that operates the rugby union club competition.

The French Sports Ministry and Frédéric Thiriez, the president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has rubbished Canal Plus’s attempts to prevent rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports from participating in the tender for the next cycle of domestic rights to the top-tier Ligue 1.

Canal Plus has called for rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports to be barred from competing in the tender for the next cycle of domestic rights to the top tier of French football, Ligue 1.

Canal Plus offers more than double but it's still not enough to hang on to Top 14

TF1 deal keeps IRB on course for 'richest World Cup ever' in 2015

BeIN Sport nabs Wimbledon rights in France but has to settle for a share of the ATP events with Canal Plus

Eurosport set to tie up French Open in long-term deal to cement its grip on grand slam tennis

BeIN Sport lands Rugby League World Cup as part of plan to become 'home of rugby' in France