INTERVIEW
With Mediapro's arrival as a major Ligue 1 broadcaster next season, football fans will have to change their habits. And take out a new subscription, because the Spaniard will have the rights to eight matches per day. Enough to add salt to the bill to have access to all club competitions and selections, in France and elsewhere. Culture Media guest with Philippe Vandel on Europe 1, Friday, the director general of the Professional Football League Didier Quillot conceded an inflation for the viewer, while justifying it.
A peak at 90 euros, like in Spain?
"I will not comment on the marketing of operators," said first number two of the LFP. But what will be the fair price of the total bill, between a monthly subscription to Canal + at least 20 euros, Mediapro at 25 euros, BeIN Sports at 15 euros and RMC Sport at 25 euros? For Didier Quillot, we have to put French inflation into perspective: "Today, to watch football in England, it's between 70 and 80 euros, in Spain it's between 80 and 90 euros, so for the client final, this seems expensive, but it is the price that our European counterparts charge, and I don't see why it would be cheaper in France. "
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And Didier Quillot predicted a price drop thanks to distribution agreements: "Canal + and BeIN signed an agreement so we can think that there will be packaging of the offer by Canal + and that prices will no longer be good in July-August ", estimates the director general of the LFP, which also relies on a lack of exclusivity for the distribution of Mediapro. "We will finally have prices that will be around in my opinion of what is done today to see all of football, fifty euros."