Eurosport and France Télévisions official broadcasters of Roland-Garros until 2018 in France

3 March 2014

Eurosport and France Télévisions have announced that in partnership with the French Tennis Federation (FFT) they will continue to broadcast the French Open until 2018. This agreement, which makes Eurosport and France Télévisions the official broadcasters for the five coming editions of the Roland-Garros tournament in the French market, is the result of a tender launched last autumn regarding the commercialisation of the audio-visual rights for the coming editions 2014 until 2018 of the tournament.

France Télévisions will remain domestic broadcaster of the French Open, as they have been since 1987. Eurosport, already broadcaster of the French Open in the rest of Europe until 2021, has acquired with this deal sub-licensed rights in France from France Télévisions.

Jean-Thierry Augustin, CEO of the Eurosport Group, says: “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.  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.”  (Source: press release)

Eurosport unveils new management structure

28 May 2013

To continue the group’s ambitious path to growth, Jean-Thierry Augustin, Eurosport Group’s newly-appointed Chief Executive Officer, strengthens Eurosport’s development division appointing Julien Bergeaud as Development Director, reporting directly to Augustin.
In order to reinforce global coherence across all TV channels and the strength of Eurosport Group’s TV platform and offer, Arnaud Simon, Managing Director of Eurosport France, extends his responsibilities and becomes TV content director, broadcast and programmes.
In addition to his current responsibilities in charge of Eurosport France TV, Simon adds international as well as local versions of the channels to his remit.
Vincent Gérard-Hirne, Technical Director, takes over the responsibility for production and distribution technology for the different language versions of group channels.
Simon and Gérard-Hirne report to François Schmitt, Deputy Managing Director, Eurosport Group, in charge of broadcast and technical means.
The changes are effective immediately.

Jean-Thierry Augustin appointed new CEO at Eurosport Group as new leadership announced by TF1

29 April 2013

Following the appointment of Laurent-Eric Le Lay as Chief Executive Officer of TF1 Publicité, the new leadership has been announced  with Philippe Denery as Chairman and Jean-Thierry Augustin as Chief Executive Officer of the Eurosport group promoted from his position of Managing Director, Distribution, Rights Acquisition & Development.   Philippe Denery will remain Executive Vice President of TF1 Group Finances.

This organisational change is part of the TF1 group’s ambition to enable Eurosport to continue developing, particularly as part of the partnership agreements signed with Discovery Communications.