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Top sports media in France

The outlets that cover sport in France — the sports press, the broadcasters, the agencies and the specialist titles.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026

These are the outlets that cover sport in France — the sports press, the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, the national news agency where it carries sport, and the specialist titles of national standing. Single-sport titles without national standing are not listed here; they appear on the media list for their own sport.

How this list is ordered. By role and national standing — the sports press first, then the broadcasters that hold or have held rights, then the national news agency and the specialist titles. That order is set once and stays put, so a page that has been cited does not rearrange itself later. The Tranco figure against each outlet is shown for reference and does not set the order. Tranco is a research ranking of web domains that averages the Chrome User Experience Report, Cloudflare Radar, Majestic, Cisco Umbrella and Farsight over the preceding 30 days, on the list of September 2026. It ranks a whole domain, not a sports desk. A general daily's rank counts every reader it has, most of whom did not come for sport, so a national newspaper will sit above a dedicated sports title that has more sports readers than it does. Some outlets carry no Tranco figure at all. Tranco ranks registrable domains, so a sports desk published on a subdomain cannot appear in it whatever its readership, and a smaller national outlet may sit outside the top million. Those are marked below.

1. L'ÉquipeGeneral sports coverage · Newspaper · Tranco 1,214 — A French sports daily published from Boulogne-Billancourt and placed third by paid circulation in the ACPM's certified 2025-2026 ranking of national dailies, with a free-to-air television channel edited by the same group. 2. Agence France-PresseNews agency · News agency · Tranco 9,469 — A Paris-based world news agency whose statute is the French law of 10 January 1957; the Ministry of Culture records 201 bureaus in more than 150 countries and output in six languages, and its sports desk supplies text, photography and video. 3. France TélévisionsBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 38,217 — The French public television group, wholly state-owned under the law of 30 September 1986, and the free-to-air broadcaster of the Tour de France, the Six Nations and the Olympic Games in France. 4. Canal+Broadcaster · Television · Tranco 13,143 — A French pay-television group, listed in London and reporting 41.16 million subscribers at 30 June 2026, holding the Top 14 and Pro D2 to 2032 and the UEFA club competitions in France to 2031. 5. beIN Sports FranceBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 7,808 — The French arm of beIN Media Group's sports channels, holder of the Coupe de France from 2026 to 2030 and of the French pay rights to the 2026 and 2030 FIFA World Cups, and no longer a Ligue 1 broadcaster. 6. RMCBroadcaster · Radio · not in the Tranco top million — A French national radio station measured by Médiamétrie at 2,766,000 daily listeners in April-June 2026, part of the CMA Media group, which agreed in June 2026 to buy the RMC Sport pay channels as well. 7. Eurosport FranceBroadcaster · Television · Tranco 7,454 — The French-language service of the pan-European Eurosport network operated by Warner Bros. Discovery, which holds the European pay-television and streaming rights to the Olympic Games from 2026 to 2032.