Canal Plus (France)

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 Court of Appeal in Paris has rejected a final attempt by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus to delay a tender of the next cycle of rights to domestic football’s top-tier Ligue 1 and second-tier Ligue 2.

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus’s bid to postpone a media rights tender launched by the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, was dismissed today (Friday) by the country’s Tribunal de Grande Instance law court.

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.

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