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Regulator appeased as TF1 acquires 2020 Champions League final rights
The final of this season’s Uefa Champions League in Lisbon will receive significant free-to-air coverage in France after the commercial broadcaster TF1 finalised a sublicensing deal with the Altice-owned p…
M6 and TF1 bid for Euro 2020 fee repayment ‘politely rejected’
French free-to-air commercial broadcasters M6 and TF1 have attempted to secure a temporary repayment of around €18m ($20.3
Mediapro’s French channel named ‘Téléfoot’ in four-year TF1 deal
Production and agency group Mediapro's football-focused pay-television service in France will be known as ‘Téléfoot’ as part of a deal struck with free-to-air commercial broadcaster TF1.
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M6 and TF1 ask to defer Euro 2020 rights payments
French free-to-air commercial broadcasters M6 and TF1 have asked to defer their rights payments for football’s 2020 European Championship after the tournament was pushed back by a year, it has been reported.
TF1 moves for Tokyo 2020 handball qualifiers rights
French free-to-air commercial broadcaster TF1 has built on its handball coverage by acquiring rights to the Olympic qualifying tournament in which the national team will compete
Canal, FOM activate option to extend F1 deal in France
French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus and Formula One Management activated an option to extend their F1 rights agreement by two years, to the end of 2022, SportBusiness Media understands.
TF1, M6 revert to pre-Euro 2016 per-match rights fee in French Euro 2020 deal
TF1 and M6’s joint acquisition of Euro 2020 free-to-air rights was struck at a similar per-match fee as the one they paid for the last comparable edition of the tournament, in 2012.
Mediapro ‘bias’ claims cast cloud over Champions League award in France
Mediapro’s accusation of impropriety in the Uefa Champions League tender process in France has cast a cloud over a record rights-fee outcome for Uefa in the country. But the agency’s threat to take Uefa to court may not be credible, industry experts told SportBusiness Media.
Canal Plus, beIN and TF1 win back Champions League in record deal
Broadcast rights in France to the Uefa Champions League will return to pay-TV broadcasters Canal Plus and beIN Sports during the 2021-24 cycle after the duo emerged victorious in the rights auction
TF1 sublicenses free-to-air EHF Euro rights from beIN until 2024
French commercial broadcaster TF1 has sublicensed from pay-television broadcaster beIN matches involving the national teams at handball’s men’s and women’s European Championships until 2024.
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TF1, M6 acquire free-to-air rights in France to Euro 2020
French commercial broadcasters TF1 and M6 have jointly acquired free-to-air rights in the country to selected matches from next summer’s Euro 2020 football championship.
French free-to-air audience nears 1m for US Grand Prix
Sunday’s Formula One United States Grand Prix was watched by an average of 936,000 viewers on TMC, the French free-to-air digital terrestrial channel.
ITV nears 13m peak for final of ‘groundbreaking’ Rugby World Cup
ITV, the UK free-to-air commercial broadcaster, claimed the most-watched television moment of the year for England’s 32-12 defeat to South Africa in Saturday’s Rugby World Cup final.
TF1: Rugby World Cup cancellations cost over €1m
TF1, the French free-to-air commercial broadcaster, expects to lose over €1m ($1.1m) from the cancellation of three matches at the Rugby World Cup in Japan because of Typhoon Hagibis.
World Rugby to hold compensation talks with broadcasters over Typhoon Hagibis impact
World Rugby has said that it will enter into talks with rights-holding broadcasters after two group-stage matches at the Rugby World Cup in Japan were cancelled given the threat posed by Typhoon Hagibis
Canal Plus and TF1 land women’s Euro 2021 rights
Commercial free-to-air broadcaster TF1 and pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus have secured the rights in France to the 2021 edition of the Uefa Women’s European Championship as the property enjoys a healthy i…
Canal Plus increases 4K sports commitment
French pay-TV broadcaster Canal Plus is making ultra high-definition coverage of the entirety of the 2019 Rugby World Cup and two English Premier League matches per week available to its subscribers
Tennis returns to TF1 in Davis Cup Finals deal
Live free-to-air coverage of France’s games at the new Davis Cup Finals will be shown by TF1 after the French commercial broadcaster announced a rights agreement.