A cameraman at the Gerland stadium in Lyon (illustration). – C. VILLEMAIN / 20 MINUTES
With regard to the amounts involved, the arm wrestling that has just started may be very tense. Canal + has just notified the Professional Football League (LFP) of its refusal to pay at the next due date under TV rights for League 1. In a letter revealed by The team and addressed to the governing bodies of French football, the boss of the encrypted channel Maxime Saada explains his choice by suspending the matches due to the confinement.
BeIN must pay 42 million euros
“It is not possible that we pay the future installments, even though due to the suspension of the Ligue 1 championship, no match can be played and, consequently broadcast on our antennas,” writes the manager chain. On April 5 Canal +, the main broadcaster of Ligue 1, was to pay 110 million euros, and BeIN, another broadcaster of the championship, 42 million euros.
Canal + and BeIN share for the 2016-2020 period the broadcasting rights for Ligue 1, amounting to 762 million euros. The LFP which called on March 23 “all the players in the ecosystem of professional football, clubs, players, coaches and also broadcasters to show their unity and solidarity to get through this crisis [sanitaire] unprecedented “has just seen his hopes shower.
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