FFT (French Tennis Federation)

The French tennis federation is nearing a renewal with beIN Media Group for rights to the French Open tournament in the Middle East and North Africa, TV Sports Markets understands.

The French tennis federation last week secured an increase of just over 11 per cent in the value of its domestic French Open rights after agreeing an early renewal with France Télévisions.

Pay-television broadcaster Star India has secured a long-term rights deal for the French Open tennis tournament.

UK-based production company Input Media has signed a two-year extension, from 2016 to 2017, to continue to produce content from the French Open grand slam tournament on behalf of the French Tennis Federation.

Canadian pay-television sports broadcasters TSN and RDS trebled their rights fee and their guarantees for coverage of French Open tennis in last week’s renewal.

There were mixed results for broadcasters of this year's French Open, Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence explains

UK commercial broadcaster ITV this week agreed to pay a small increase for its free-to-air rights to the French Open tennis tournament.

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More exclusivity for Eurosport in new domestic French Open deal

Interview with Jean-Thierry Augustin, chief executive of Eurosport, on Eurosport France’s deal for French Open tennis rights

French public-service broadcaster France Télévisions has extended a rights deal for the French Open and sublicensed rights for the tennis tournament to the Eurosport France national arm of the international sports broadcaster.

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

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Spanish market proving difficult for sellers of the rights to the Fifa World Cup and French Open tennis