TV rights: France Télévisions ready to broadcast Ligue 1 in clear

The elite of French football will land on the antennas of France Televisions?

According to our information, the public group contacted the Professional Football League (LFP) and assured them of being ready to broadcast Ligue 1 matches if Téléfoot was no longer able to do so.

Oral exchanges that go back to the end of 2020, when it appeared that the Sino-Spanish company no longer intended to honor the payment of its broadcasting rights.

This option would aim to prevent French football from disappearing from the screens, while Canal + has announced its intention to return its share of two matches to cause a new global tender.

If France Télévisions says it is ready to broadcast Ligue 1 in the clear, there is no question for the public group to make a financial offer for the lot that Téléfoot has left vacant and that the League decided on Thursday to put back on the market.

Jean-Michel Blanquer and Roxana Maracineanu follow the file

"In this period of crisis, it is unthinkable to imagine that a public company could spend several hundred million euros to broadcast football," said a source familiar with the matter.

According to Le Figaro, M 6 and TF1 also offered to the LFP to broadcast meetings in clear.

But here too, without having the vocation of competing for the prizes, and therefore of ensuring financial income for French football.

Canal +, for its part, evoked the idea of ​​offering the matches in pay-per-view.

"What the League is looking for is above all a paying broadcaster," explains a stakeholder in the case.

There, these are solutions which do not advance it.

"A headache for the League, which has not seen any new potential broadcaster appear since the withdrawal of Mediapro.

According to our information, the situation also worries the government.

The Minister of Education, Youth and Sports Jean-Michel Blanquer and his Deputy Minister Roxana Maracineanu have looked into the matter in recent days.

Officially no question of playing mediators, but rather of thinking about solutions to help French football.

Who, above all, seeks someone capable of cushioning his fall.