At the request of the group, which has just bought all of the TV rights to Ligue 1, the LFP's Board of Directors has decided to advance its poster initially scheduled for 9 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, until the end of the season. 

Canal +, buyer of all the TV rights of Ligue 1, has chosen to advance to 1 p.m. on Saturday afternoon its poster initially scheduled for Saturday evening at 9 p.m., until the end of the season, has announced Wednesday the League (LFP).

The best Top 14 poster on Saturday night

"At the request of the Canal + Group, the Board of Directors of the LFP has decided to organize the programming of Ligue 1 days from the 26th day (from February 19 to 21,

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) and until the end of the season, "said the LFP in a statement, saying it wanted to have" the widest possible exposure ".

The return of football on Canal +, and in particular the large poster on Sunday evening, has prompted the broadcaster to review its programming and modify this box, devoted to rugby at the start of the season.

The channel indicated on Saturday that the best poster of the Top 14 would now occupy the Saturday night box, which led to the modification of the schedule of the corresponding match in Ligue 1.

After long weeks of arm wrestling following the withdrawal of the failing broadcaster Mediapro, the encrypted channel last week sealed an unexpected agreement with French football for the broadcasting of the entirety of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 until 'at the end of the season, relieving the sector in the short term without however erasing the drastic losses of the clubs after an unprecedented audiovisual crisis.

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To broadcast all the matches of each day of L1, the Vivendi subsidiary negotiated an extension of 35 million euros, in addition to what it had already paid to the League (330 million euros for the season ), according to several sources familiar with the case.

The 26th day of Ligue 1, scheduled from February 19 to 21, will include Nantes-Marseille, Montpellier-Rennes, Lorient-Lille, Brest-Lyon as posters and the highlight of the Paris SG-Monaco shock.

The schedules of the various matches have not yet been communicated by the LFP.