Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP)

Football

Last Friday’s French football league rights auction put a large hole in the theory that Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is an unstoppable force bent on dominating the local market

Cricket

If there is a common thread running through our stories this issue it is change. It is a process that all sports go through, usually to secure increased media exposure and revenue, and occasionally due to power struggles about how that revenue is divided.

Football

Canal Plus has acquired rights in France for the two main packages of the next cycle of domestic rights for Ligue 1, the country’s top division of football, while rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired the other four packages.

Football

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.

Football

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.

Football

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.

Football

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.

Football

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.

Football

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.

Handball

French handball league is latest winner from pay-TV battle

Football

The Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has launched a domestic rights sales process for Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, the top two divisions in the country.

Football

Swedish commercial and pay-television broadcaster TV4 has announced that its new TV12 channel will launch on March 29, combining sports and lifestyle programming.

Football

The French Sports Ministry and Frédéric Thiriez, the president of the Ligue de Football Professionnel, the French football league, has rubbished Canal Plus’s attempts to prevent rival pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports from participating in the tender for the next cycle of domestic rights to the top-tier Ligue 1.

Football

IMG and Sportfive to challenge Infront for lucrative Serie A adviser role

How Europe’s top football leagues use external experts

Football

Bundesliga says it will “follow the money” in its international TV rights sales

Football

MP & Silva sold Serie A and Ligue 1 online betting rights to the Perform Group. But just nine months ago it sold the same rights to Rightster as part of a launch of a joint venture with the company. So what’s going on?