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Ligue 1 and Ligue 2: Mediapro joins forces with TF1 and creates the chain “Téléfoot”

2020-06-03T10:41:50.890Z


The historic channel will supply magazines and star commentators Bixente Lizarazu and Grégoire Margotton to the new footba broadcaster


Mediapro, the new broadcaster of the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 football championships, has entered into a partnership with the TF1 group to create its channel in France. It will be called Telefoot, like the famous TF1 show, the two companies announced on Tuesday in a press release.

In addition to the use of the Telefoot brand, this partnership provides for TF1 to supply chain magazines. His emblematic duo of commentators, Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu, will officiate on the channel of the Sino-Spanish group for around twenty Ligue 1 matches broadcast on Sunday evening, including the "10 best posters of the season", specify the two groups. .

"This agreement testifies to all of Mediapro's ambition for the French championship, and devotes the know-how of the TF1 group in the coverage of the biggest sports competitions as well as in its historic attachment to French football", affirm the two companies.

A “natural alliance”

Jaume Roures, President and Founder of Mediapro, and Julien Bergeaud, Managing Director of Mediapro Sport France, say they are “very happy to announce the creation of Téléfoot. This partnership with TF1, the leading French audiovisual channel, is the natural alliance of two groups recognized in football. We are going to offer fans a new look at football. ”

Gilles Pélisson, Chairman and CEO of the TF1 Group, and François Pellissier, Director of Sports, also say they are delighted "with this alliance. The creation of a channel entirely devoted to football is a new illustration of the TF1 Group's commitment alongside French football players. This partnership is an opportunity to promote one of our most beautiful brands which has brought the public together for more than forty years ”.

Source: leparis

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