While the problems around the TV rights of French football seem to be settled by the end of the contract between Mediapro and the Professional Football League, the editorial staff of Téléfoot denounced, through the voice of journalist Thibault Le Rol, a situation in which it considers abandoned by his employer, the Sino-Spanish group Mediapro.
Wednesday evening was surely the last day of Ligue 1 broadcast on the air of the ephemeral Téléfoot channel.
As the day before, the employees took the opportunity to once again castigate their management, which on Tuesday abandoned the rights to broadcast matches, following late payment, and at the same time dropped the employees of its Téléfoot channel. .
Just before the kickoff of the match, at 7 p.m., the presenter Thibault Le Rol read a text on the air.
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The impression of "being the orchestra of the Titanic"
He denounced, on behalf of the editorial staff, the fate reserved for the employees of the chain.
"An evening like the one we are going to experience mobilizes some four hundred people, whether in the editorial staff or technical staff, all over France. Four hundred people who, like me, have a little feeling at the moment, this season, to be the turkeys of the farce, or rather even to be the members of the Titanic orchestra "he explained.
He also pointed to "the contempt and the deafening silence of the conciliator and [his] employer", before starting a minute of silence live on the air, on the images of the various matches in progress.
The sports meetings also started without any noise or almost, since they are always played behind closed doors.