The broadcast of the French basketball championship stopped until further notice on Wednesday due to unpaid bills from the Skweek platform, indicated the newspaper L'Équipe, parent company of the production company 21 Prod present on these matches.
Wednesday evening, a first match was not broadcast by Skweek, Roanne-Monaco, on behalf of the 31st day of the Elite championship, due to lack of a producer. Due to unpaid bills on the platform, owned by the Monegasque group Fedcom controlled by Russian-Hungarian businessman Aleksej Fedoricsev, the production company of the L'Équipe group, 21 Prod, sent a termination letter on Wednesday at FedCom Media.
“Production has not been paid since November”
An internal source at the L'Équipe group confirmed to AFP that on Wednesday, its subsidiary 21 Prod had informed Skweek that it was stopping working for this broadcaster
. “If FedCom Media has paid the broadcasting rights correctly, the production would no longer have been paid since November,”
wrote the sports daily on Thursday.
“Fedcom Media has to date paid the broadcast rights in full,”
Fedcom said in a press release, without mentioning the arrears concerning production. The Monegasque group mentioned “
difficulties encountered by Fedcom Media and one of its service providers”
.
Unless payments from Skweek are resumed, the broadcast on this platform of the next matches, starting on Saturday, seems unlikely. But other matches could be broadcast on L'Équipe, a free TNT channel, including Sunday's Asvel-Paris poster.