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Canal + extends its rights for F1, MotoGP and WRC

2021-08-31T14:55:06.123Z


The channel is also betting a lot this year on the Champions League, of which it has won the two best matches of each week, as well as the final.


Canal + will continue to broadcast Formula 1 until the end of 2024, MotoGP races until the end of 2029 and the World Rally Championship (WRC) until the end of 2030, the encrypted channel announced on Tuesday at its conference of back-to-school press.

In Formula 1, "

we are extending the adventure that began in 2013,

" said Thomas Sénécal, presenter and deputy director of sports writing.

Read also Ligue 1 TV rights: Canal + will pay and broadcast the matches

"

MotoGP, Moto 2, Moto 3, all these competitions that we discovered in 2019 and which also unites a lot will be on the group's antennas until the end of 2029

", he added, before announcing the extension of rights for the WRC, also broadcast since 2019. In dispute with the Professional Football League over the broadcasting rights of Ligue 1, Canal + promises "

the most beautiful comeback in (its) history with regard to sport

", according to the group's director general of programs, Gérald-Brice Viret.

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Padel on Canal +

The encrypted channel, which broadcasts the Top 14 (rugby) and has also invested in boxing or golf, is betting particularly this year on the Champions League, for which it has won the two best matches of each week, as well as the final. For the occasion, the flagship presenter of the channel Hervé Mathoux will co-host the program "

Canal Champions Club

" with former PSG player Laure Boulleau, former international Eric Abidal officiating as a consultant.

The group will also launch a dedicated offer to allow watching 100% of the Champions League with BeIN Sports for 25.99 euros for the first 12 months, as well as a multiplex on its MyCanal platform, the “

Champions League Stadium

”.

Ligue 1, including Canal +, for the time being constrained by justice, will still broadcast "

28 of the most beautiful posters

", will be broadcast "

every Saturday evening as a bonus on Canal + Sport Week-end (Canal + shifted)

" and "

so accessible to all of our subscribers

”, announced Gérald-Brice Viret without expanding further.

Read also Ligue 1 TV rights: the LFP wants to join the procedure between beIN Sports and Canal +

Another more unexpected announcement, the pre-emption of broadcasting rights, for five years, of padel, a discipline derived from tennis "

which will become a great sport

", assured Gérald-Brice Viret.

Source: lefigaro

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