TV5MONDE Bags More Sports Rights

HONG KONG: The French-language network TV5MONDE has extended its deals with the French Football Federation (FFF) and Ligue1 Championship, along with securing key rugby tournaments.

The global deal, excluding France, with the FFF includes all home matches by the French national team for the next two seasons, until June 2012. This includes friendlies and qualifiers to UEFA’s Euro 2012, as well as behind-the-scenes and practice footage. TV5MONDE also adds live broadcast of the French Cup Final for the next two seasons on all its channels outside of France, in addition to the currently weekly live match of French Ligue1 Championship and its weekly highlights magazine.

For its Asian service, TV5MONDE secured live matches by the French team at the next RBS Six Nations rugby tournament and France’s international fall test matches against Fiji, Argentina and Australia this November.