Canal Plus (France)

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus does not intend to acquire rights to all French Ligue 1 matches after its existing, short-term agreement expires at the end of the current season, it has been reported

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has held on to one of its flagship properties in France by retaining rights to French rugby union’s Top 14, paying an increase of about 17 per cent on its previous deal.

A French court has ruled that five men who last year were found guilty of running an operation pirating the content of sports broadcasters must pay over €7m ($8.3m) in damages.

Paris’ commercial court has ruled in favour of France’s Professional Football League (LFP) in a case brought against it by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus over a recent broadcast rights auction.

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is set to showcase free-to-air coverage of four Formula 1 races itself instead of selling on the rights

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has held on to one of its flagship properties in France by retaining rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 from 2023-24 to 2026-27 in a deal worth an average of €…

Paris’ commercial court is to deliver its decision on March 11 in the legal spat between pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus and France’s Professional Football League (LFP).

The invitation to tender for domestic broadcast rights to French rugby union’s Top 14 is reported to have attracted bids from broadcasters including incumbent rights-holder Canal Plus and free-to-air d…

The legal case put forward by pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus against the recent broadcast rights auction run by France’s Professional Football League is to be heard on March 2.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has launched a new digital portal on its MyCanal streaming service dedicated to Ligue 1, creating a one-stop shop for subscribers to find and watch the league’s c…

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is thought to be confident of extending existing deals in France for Formula One motor racing and Top 14 rugby union

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports will be the exclusive broadcaster of Ligue 2 football in France for the rest of this season after a reaching a deal with Canal Plus to sublicense the latter’s recently-acquired r…

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is bringing forward its Ligue 1 Saturday evening slot to Saturday lunchtime for the rest of this season

French football fans finally have clarity over the availability of domestic Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 broadcast coverage for the remainder of the 2020-21 season after a deal was struck with pay-television broadcaster…

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is continuing to refuse to engage in direct negotiations with the French Professional Football League (LFP) over Ligue 1 media rights and remains firmly in favour…

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has received bids for its domestic broadcast rights from online retail giant Amazon, subscription streaming operator DAZN and international broadcast group D…

Pay-television broadcasters Canal Plus and beIN Sports have not submitted bids in the controversial domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP).

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has stepped up its challenge to the domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender recently issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) by making an application t…