No chance. The pay channel Téléfoot, from the Sino-Spanish group Mediapro, was to begin with fanfare on Friday August 21 at 5 p.m. with the first poster of the new season of L1: Olympique de Marseille-Saint-Étienne. Alas, this match was postponed to September, because OM players are affected by the Covid. It takes more to disturb Jaume Roures, the boss of Mediapro, who came to launch his channel in France alongside Julien Bergeaud, general manager, and Jean-Michel Roussier, his deputy. Julien Bergeaud himself recognized that the arrival of Mediapro in the French audiovisual landscape was "not a long quiet river".
After creating a surprise in 2018 by winning 80% of the rights of the L1 and L2 for 800 million euros per year, Mediapro finds itself with a football championship hit hard by the Covid epidemic. Stopped since confinement in March 2020, the L1 will still be played this season largely behind closed doors or only in front of a gauge
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