The group Mediapro had until then maintained the suspense. The channel Téléfoot, new diffuser in the League 1 of football, will be distributed on the box of the operator SFR for the period 2020-2024, announced Monday, Altice and Mediapro. At the same time, the two groups have sealed a deal for codiffuser the champions League on the season 2020-2021.
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The agreement provides, in practice codiffusion of european competitions, Champions League and Europa League, whose rights are currently held, and until 2021, by Altice, on RMC Sport, the chain Altice, as well as on Téléfoot. The amounts of the two transactions were not specified. “SFR becomes operator 100 % to football, the only one in France to offer its subscribers all the French football and european “, if is satisfied the operator in the press release.
Subscription bundled RMC Sport-Téléfoot
SFR has also an agreement to broadcast Canal+ and beIN Sports, which will broadcast next year some of the matches of league 1 and League 2 as well as the major european leagues. The subscribers of the operator will also have the opportunity to take out a subscription grouped RMC Sport-Téléfoot for 25,90 euros per month.
Mediapro announced that the subscription to Téléfoot would be 25 euros per month. The channel Téléfoot will begin to be issued in the month of August, on the occasion of the resumption of the championships. The new official calendar of the French football, shaken by the crisis of the coronavirus, provides a restart of the L1 on Friday, 21 August with a clash between Marseille and Saint-Étienne, a day before the resumption of the L2, the Saturday, August 22.
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The group sino-Spanish Mediapro, which has won the broadcasting rights of more than 80 % of the matches of L1 and L2 for the period 2020-2024 and for a record amount of over 800 million euros per year, has created the surprise by allying with the French tv channel TF1 for the launch of her chain. It has in particular entered into a license agreement to use the trademark of the famous magazine of TF1, and build upon the football stars of TF1, Gregory Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu, to comment on twenty matches of L1 on the Sunday evening.
