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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.

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

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 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’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.

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

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. U

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.

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, 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, 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 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

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…

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

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.

French commercial broadcaster TF1 has secured coverage of the French national rugby team's Rugby World Cup warm-up match against Italy on August 30 after sublicensing the rights from public-service broadcaster…