Canal Plus (France)

Basketball

The French Basketball League (LNB) has terminated its contract with Canal Plus after the pay-television broadcaster closed its Sport Plus channel.

Multi-sport

France Télévisions last week sublicensed rights to the summer Olympic Games of 2016 and 2020, recouping a decent portion of its investment.

Olympics

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has agreed a deal to sublicense rights to the 2016 and 2020 summer Olympic Games to pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

Thierry Thuillier has been appointed as the new head of sport at French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

Media company Vivendi has launched a bid to buy out the French unit of its Canal Plus broadcaster.

Football

French Ligue 1 football clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille have opted to end a 10-day boycott of pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

Rugby Union

The French second-tier rugby union league, the Pro D2, took advantage of strong competition for its rights to secure a massive fee increase in new deals agreed last week.

Football

Ligue 1 clubs Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique de Marseille have said they will not talk to French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus until the end of the 2014-15 season after its footage was used by the French Football League (LFP) to suspend star strikers Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Dimitri Payet.

Rugby Union

The French division of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus and public-service broadcaster France Télévisions have acquired rights to domestic rugby union league the Pro D2 under five-year deals.

Rugby Union

The domestic media rights value of French rugby union’s Top 14 final increased strongly in new deals agreed last week.

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights to the 2015 season of US motor racing championship IndyCar.

Rugby Union

Canal Plus and Eurosport are battling it out over the pay-television rights to French rugby union’s Pro D2, with the existing rights fee set to treble.

Cycling

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has agreed an exclusive carriage deal with pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Rugby Union

The Ligue Nationale de Rugby last week secured an increase of 4.2 per cent in the value of the media rights of the top-tier domestic league, the Top 14, despite limited competition.

Rugby Union

Interview with Emmanuel Eschalier, chief executive officer at the Ligue Nationale de Rugby, on the league’s new Top 14 domestic deal with pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus.

Rugby Union

French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has been awarded rights by the Ligue National de Rugby (LNR) for the domestic rugby union Top 14 tournament for four seasons, from 2015-16 to 2018-19.

Rugby Union

Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has acquired rights in France for the 2015 Rugby World Cup in a sublicensing deal with commercial broadcaster TF1, according to French newspaper Le Figaro.

Motorsport

Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences across the big five markets for the recently concluded Formula One World Championship