M6 offers the LFP to broadcast Ligue 1 for free

The M6 ​​group has offered the Professional Football League (LFP) to broadcast Ligue 1 matches for free, while waiting for a new official broadcaster to be found to replace Mediapro, a spokesperson for the audiovisual group told AFP. , confirming information from

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The chairman of the board of M6 made this proposal in a letter sent to the leader of the LFP, Vincent Labrune.

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A temporary remedy for Ligue 1

While confirming that his group is "not intended to acquire lots" for the broadcasting of the championship, the boss of M6 explains that his group could "put our antennas at your disposal for the broadcasting of such or such match in order to to offer visibility to your competition and its sponsors, to avoid any break in distribution and thus ensure the necessary social link around the dissemination of Ligue 1 ".

M6 would thus serve as a temporary remedy for L1, during a floating period that could be created between the cessation of activity of Téléfoot, the Mediapro channel in liquidation, and the appointment of a new broadcaster to take over the prizes won in 2018. by the Sino-Spanish group.

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The board of directors of the LFP has just confirmed the principle of a new call for tenders to reallocate these vacant broadcasting rights, but Canal + is demanding a new general offer, including the L1 matches it is already broadcasting (20% of meetings) and which she wishes to return.

Such an approach, even temporary, would allow M6, already broadcaster of major competitions including Euro 2016 and Euro 2020 (postponed to summer 2021) and part of the matches of the Blues, to strengthen in the field. football, generator of good audiences.