BeIN Sport (France)
Federation nets 17% increase for French Cup rights
French football federation enjoys increase in rights fee for domestic cup
Pitch International takes SpursTV to wider audience
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 deal: a case study in the use of market power
Top 14 rights saga is case study in the use of market power
Bidders fail to meet reserve price for FFF competitions
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.
Reduced French qualifier fee is still good deal for Uefa
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 hints at legal action over Canal Plus’s Top 14 deal
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.
Canal Plus’s beIN Sports complaint rubbished by league, government
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 wants beIN Sports to be blocked from Ligue 1 tender
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.
LNR looks set to improve on big C+ Top 14 offer
Canal Plus offers more than double but it's still not enough to hang on to Top 14
France keeps 2015 on course to be richest World Cup
TF1 deal keeps IRB on course for 'richest World Cup ever' in 2015
Wimbledon gets 14% increase from reluctant bidders
BeIN Sport nabs Wimbledon rights in France but has to settle for a share of the ATP events with Canal Plus
Eurosport to hang on to French Open until 2021 in blockbuster deal
Eurosport set to tie up French Open in long-term deal to cement its grip on grand slam tennis
BeIN Sport buys World Cup to bolster ‘home of rugby’ tag
BeIN Sport lands Rugby League World Cup as part of plan to become 'home of rugby' in France
Rights value looks set to rise in France for key properties
Canal Plus and Al Jazeera prepare for extended summer rally for Wimbledon and ATP rights