France

Football
Media

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has paid the first fee instalment of its rights agreements for French league football for the 2020-24 cycle. Mediapro paid €172.3m ($200.5
Football
Media

Football media platform OneFootball is to broadcast free coverage of Korea’s K League to users in France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Brazil in a deal with Sportradar, the agency that was last year appointed t…
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

French Ligue 1 club AS Monaco and recruitment agency Triangle Intérim have extended their kit-related sponsorship agreement for two more seasons until June 2022.
Media

France’s new Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot has temporarily reprieved public broadcaster France Télévisions’ France 4 channel from closure. F
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French commercial broadcaster TF1 is to offer its coverage of the 2019-20 Uefa Champions League final in ultra high-definition, as part of an expanded commitment to the format
Cycling
Events

Copenhagen’s staging of the Tour de France’s Grand Départ has been put back a year to 2022 amid the continued reshaping of the sporting calendar during Covid-19.
Football
Media

Streaming platform Twitch has acquired the rights to a pair of friendly matches featuring French Ligue 1 side Dijon Football Côte D’Or.
Football
Media

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly reached an agreement with internet entertainment giant Netflix to create a joint consumer offer incorporating the agency’s new Téléfoot channel.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

The revival of the Sportfive name after five years of operation under the Lagardère Sports brand has received positive feedback in France, the country of the agency’s origin, according to a leading ex…
Cycling
Events

The International Cycling Union (UCI) has revealed the calendars for the 2021 WorldTour and Women’s WorldTour seasons, with the Tour de France to start a week earlier than originally planned to avoid a…
Football
Media

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro and telco Altice have finalised a deal to co-broadcast Uefa club competitions next season in France and allow Altice’s SFR platform to distribute the agency’s new…
Football
Finance & Law

Paris FC has announced that Bahrain’s sovereign wealth fund has acquired a 20-per-cent stake in the French Ligue 2 football club and will become its main sponsor.
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

France’s Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) this month struck only the second betting deal in its history, a three-year agreement with Betclic that will run from 2020-21 to 2022-23.
Football
Media

Luxembourg-based media company Fuchs Sports has agreed a five-season deal with the French Football Federation for digital rights to National 2 and National 3, the fourth and fifth tiers of the domestic…
Football
Media

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly reached an agreement with telco Altice to co-broadcast Uefa club competitions next season in France, and allow Altice’s SFR platform to distribute t…
Baseball
Media

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has retained rights to Major League Baseball in France and across 24 countries in the Middle East and North Africa
Football
Media

Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly agreed a carriage deal with social media giant Facebook for the former’s new Téléfoot channel.
Football
Media

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…