Canal + wants to return its broadcasting rights for Ligue 1 matches to the LFP, the professional football league.
The group wants a new call for tenders to be organized.
The crisis is bogged down within the group "L'Equipe", it has been five days that the daily does not appear.
Alain Finkielkraut will no longer intervene on LCI, the channel announced that it would no longer invite the philosopher to debate in the program "24 Heures Pujadas", following his comments in the Duhamel affair.
We will know the song that will represent France at Eurovision in a fortnight.
The TF1 police series "Alice Nevers" with Marine Delterme will not return for a 19th season.
The shock announcement of Canal +
The group wants to return its broadcasting rights for Ligue 1 matches to the LFP, the professional football league.
This is what the chairman of the group's executive board, Maxime Saada, told “Figaro”.
Canal + wants a new call for tenders to be organized.
Contrary to what the LFP hoped, Canal + will therefore not make a written proposal to buy back the rights that Mediapro had awarded at a gold price in 2018. Following a default in payment, Mediapro returned these rights there is a few weeks.
Why does Canal + not want to buy back these rights directly?
Maxime Saada puts forward three reasons: a "loss of confidence between Canal + and those responsible for French football", legal reasons (an agreement by mutual agreement, without a call for tenders, could be contested in court), but also a reason economic.
According to him, the price of the League has depreciated following the Mediapro fiasco.
But this Canal + announcement is also strategic, as sports economist Christophe Lepetit explained to Antoine Genton.
According to "Le Parisien", no broadcaster has come forward to take back these lots.
And a question now arises: if the Téléfoot channel closes as planned, and Canal + returns its rights, who will broadcast the championship until the end of the season?
The crisis is bogged down within the L'Equipe group
The daily has not been published for five days today.
And the dialogue between management and employees seems complicated.
At the heart of the tensions, a social plan which provides for the elimination of 50 positions and the creation of 15 new ones.
Untenable for Denis Perez, SNJ-CGT union representative.
For its part, the management ensures that the survival of the group in the medium term is threatened.
The confinement accelerated a structural crisis, that of the drop in sales of the paper daily.
The group gave itself two years to significantly boost its digital offering to offset this decline, but it was taken aback.
Today, management is advancing projected losses of six million euros for 2021 and up to 10 million for 2023 and 2024. And this, while the shareholder has absorbed the bill related to COVID and the bankruptcy of Presstalis .
But this very gloomy picture does not convince the unions.
Alain Finkielkraut will no longer intervene on LCI
The news channel of the TF1 group announced that it would no longer invite the philosopher to debate in the program “24 Heures Pujadas”, in which he participated regularly since the start of the school year.
Sunday, while evoking on the air the charges of incest against the political scientist Olivier Duhamel, Alain Finkielkraut wondered about the possible consent of the alleged victim of Olivier Duhamel.
A 14-year-old victim at the time of the incident.
David Pujadas immediately called his interlocutor to order, but the philosopher insisted.
"Inadmissible" in the eyes of the TF1 group, which has decided to end their collaboration.
This ousting angered the philosopher.
He considers it "unfair" and considers himself "gagged" by LCI.
Asked by "Le Parisien", Alain Finkielkraut assures to have "never", "at any time", "been complacent with Olivier Duhamel" and affirms that he would not change "anything" to the remarks he made.
And he concludes with this sentence: "We live in a world of collective delirium and I am the victim".
One and a half million people are deprived of television and radio in Haute-Vienne
A fire broke out on Monday evening and caused significant damage to the broadcasting transmitter located in the commune of Cars.
The fire was claimed to a local newspaper by a group that identified themselves as the Committee to Abolish 5G and Its World.
This is the second such fire in a few months.
Last November, it was near Marseille that a television broadcasting site was hit, depriving more than 3.5 million people of television and radio for several days.
We will know the song that will represent France at Eurovision in a fortnight.
It is precisely on January 30 that France 2 will offer its program “Eurovision France: It's you who decides”.
In the running, 12 candidates and 12 songs, which have already been unveiled on social networks.
The viewers and a jury will be responsible for deciding between them during a single premium.
Last year, the channel had first chosen a song, then assigned an artist ... in this case, Tom Leeb.
But this year the process is completely different, as casting director Wladimir Pandolfo explained to Louise Bernard.
"Eurovision France, you decide", presented by Stéphane Bern and Laurence Boccolini, it's Saturday January 30 on France 2!
Alice Nevers, it's over!
TF1's detective series with Marine Delterme will not return for a 19th season, announces “Allociné”.
In question, too low audiences on THE fetish target of TF1, the women responsible for the purchases of less than 50 years.
An air of déjà vu on the cinema release calendar.
The waltz of postponements has begun.
This Tuesday, "Aline" by Valérie Lemercier opened the ball.
Distributor Gaumont has announced that the film based on the life of Celine Dion will finally be released on November 10, if all goes well.
This is a year later than originally expected.
At first, Gaumont had pushed it back to February 17, 2021, but this date is no longer realistic.
In Hollywood too, postponements are likely to follow one another.
Yesterday evening, the next James Bond, "Die can wait", was once again postponed.
Originally expected in April 2020, then April 2021, it should now be released next November.
This cinema crisis, there is one, among others, who sees it as an opportunity
It's Netflix.
The platform has acquired several films whose theatrical release has been canceled due to the pandemic, in order to strengthen its cinema offering.
And she also continues to develop her own productions.
Netflix will offer 70 original films in 2021, and promises at least one new release per week.
Never seen !
Among them, the eagerly awaited "Red Notice", with Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot.
A film produced for at least 150 million euros.
This is one of Netflix's biggest bets with a budget worthy of the biggest movies produced for theaters.