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Canal Plus president Maxime Saada has said he is “very worried for French football” as a result of the ongoing dispute between Mediapro, the rights agency and production group, and the Professional Foo…
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Jaume Roures, chief executive of Mediapro today (Wednesday) maintained that the agency and production group is committed to its French football pay-television service Téléfoot but doubts persist over i…
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The dispute between France’s Professional Football League (LFP) and its domestic broadcast rights-holder Mediapro, the agency and production group, has intensified after the league body referred its c…
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has served formal notice on Spanish agency and production group Mediapro to pay its outstanding October invoice for the domestic broadcast rights to the country’s top-…
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has reacted to delays in its next media-rights payment from Mediapro, the agency and production group, by looking to put in place a bank loan so that clubs c…
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Concerns have been raised among French football clubs after it emerged that Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has asked for more time to make its second broadcast rights fee instalment payment…
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The reluctance of French pay-television platforms to pay a minimum guarantee to carry Mediapro’s new Téléfoot channel has become a huge obstacle to the Spanish agency’s prospects for finalising distribution deals before the start of the new domestic football season.
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The French Professional League (LFP) has voted to maintain a 20-team top division during the 2020-21 season, citing the impact on the calendar and broadcast rights contracts among its reasons for doing…
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Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has no issues with a 22-club French football top tier, it has been reported, following the decision by the country’s highest administrative court to suspend t…
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The French Football League (LFP) and international pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group have today (Friday) settled the thorny issue of outstanding international broadcast rights fee payments
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The French Football League (LFP) has voted in favour of expanding Ligue 2 from 20 to 22 teams for the 2020-21 season, while Ligue 1 clubs are ready to offer their lower league compatriots an additional…
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French Ligue 1 clubs have agreed to an equal division of the increase in annual media-rights revenue they will receive during the 2020-24 cycle. The top-tier clubs will earn nearly €1.2bn ($1.3
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French football’s second-tier, Ligue 2, is reportedly seeking 12.4 per cent of the Ligue de Football Professionnel’s net media-rights revenues during the upcoming 2020-24 cycle.
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PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi is not part of the group of French Ligue 1 bosses meeting with pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports to discuss a delayed fee instalment for the international rights …
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The general assembly of France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has today adopted a resolution that will enable the league to take out a state-guaranteed loan to make up for the shortfall in broadcast r…
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Canal Plus, the French pay-television broadcaster, has informed France’s Professional Football League (LFP) that it is terminating its media-rights agreement following the decision to end the 2019-20 L…
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Canal Plus and beIN Sports, the pay-television broadcasters, have reached an agreement with France’s Professional Football League (LFP) over the payment for rights to Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches already p…
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Roxana Mărăcineanu, the Minister of Sports of France, has proposed that the country’s mediator for economic and financial affairs attempts to resolve the dispute over rights fee payments between the Pro…