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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has made Jérôme Dumois of players’ body the Union Nationale des Footballeurs Professionels (UNFP) the latest hire to its new LFP Media division. T
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Vietnamese pay-television broadcaster VTVcab has acquired the rights for French Ligue 2 football for the new season
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L’Équipe, the digital terrestrial channel and digital platform, is to show one weekly match from French football’s second-tier Ligue 2 after striking a sublicensing deal with rights-holder Amazon Prim…
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Four private equity groups have made binding bids for a stake in the commercial subsidiary being planned by France’s Professional Football League (LFP), it has been reported.
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French senators have proposed that investors in the new commercial subsidiary being drawn up by the Professional Football League (LFP) should be limited to a 10-per-cent stake, with a representative of…
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Private equity funds including CVC Capital Partners, Bain Capital and Silver Lake are assessing preliminary bids by a deadline of Monday for a stake of up to 20 per cent in a new commercial subsidiary…
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France’s Professional Football League (LFP) is seeking an investment of €1.5bn ($1.75b
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Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is pondering its response to Canal Plus’ insistence that it will no longer show Ligue 1 matches in France.
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The Mediapro agency and production group has paid the second part of its severance agreement with France’s Professional Football League (LFP) following the withdrawal from its broadcast rights deal last y…
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Pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has stepped up its challenge to the domestic broadcast rights invitation to tender recently issued by France’s Professional Football League (LFP) by making an application t…
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The Nanterre commercial court is expected to decide on Tuesday whether to validate the settlement reached between Spanish agency and production group Mediapro and France’s Professional Football League (…
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Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reportedly agreed to make a €100m ($120m) severance payment to France’s Professional Football League (LFP) as part of its settlement for the return of …
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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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Spanish agency and production group Mediapro has reached a distribution agreement with French telco Bouygues Telecom to carry its new Téléfoot subscription service.
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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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French pay-television broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal Plus have been hit by a legal claim launched on behalf of subscribers aggrieved at their lack of compensation offered amidst the shutdown of sports…
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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…