“If someone has offended you, don't seek revenge. Sit down by the river and soon you will see his corpse pass by
… ”Maxime Saada, president of the Canal group's management board, pondered this sentence from Lao Tseu at length.
During his career with the group, he saw the corpses of contenders for the title of king of football.
Diffuser of the Ligue 1 championship since its creation, Canal + had to fight Homeric battles against opponents made drunk by the magic of football.
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The first, in 1999, was almost fatal.
The pay-TV platform TPS, co-owned by TF1 and M6, hits hard by offering more money than Canal + for audiovisual rights.
The blow is hard.
Finally, Canal + twists the arm of the LFP to share the rights with TPS.
The two rivals will engage in a war of attrition until 2004. At this date, the duo Bertrand Meheut and Rodolphe Belmer put 600 million euros to win the exclusive rights.
The blow is fatal to TPS which,
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