Eurosport & France Télévisions Lock Up French Open Rights

PARIS: Eurosport and France Télévisions are continuing their partnership with the French Tennis Federation (FFT), broadcasting the French Open until 2018.

The deal makes the networks the official broadcasters for the five Roland Garros tournaments in the French market. France Télévisions, which has aired the tournaments since 1987, will remain the domestic broadcaster of the French Open. Eurosport, already the broadcaster of the French Open in Europe until 2021, has also acquired sub-licensed rights in France from France Télévisions.

This partnership is the result of a tender launched last year regarding the commercialization of the audiovisual rights for the coming editions (2014 through 2018) of the tournament.

“We are very pleased that we are able to continue our collaboration with the FFT thanks to this agreement, with whom we are already partnering in all other European countries to broadcast Roland Garros until 2021,” said Jean-Thierry Augustin, the CEO of the Eurosport Group. “This new agreement will enable us to offer our subscribers extensive coverage of the tournament, both on our channels (Eurosport and Eurosport 2) and on our various digital offerings, whether on the Internet, mobile, tablet or connected TV. The Roland Garros tournament is one of the flagship events in the portfolio rights of the Eurosport Group, and we are very proud to be able to continue, through the various agreements we have now signed, to support the development of tournament in France and internationally in 54 countries.”