Sixteen years after having organized the Rugby World Cup, France is once again hosting the competition, from September 8 to October 28, in nine cities: Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice, Saint-Denis (Stade de France ), Saint-Etienne and Toulouse.
Match sharing
Given the importance of the event and accustomed to its broadcasting (apart from in 2003, it has been doing it since 1991…), the TF1 group won the rights in September 2021. A few weeks ago, it finally decided to give up 28 of the 48 matches to its competitors France 2 and M6.
Three channels will therefore share the broadcast in full and unencrypted.
TF1 will obviously have the advantage with twenty matches including the most beautiful posters.
The group will thus offer three of the four group matches of the Blues: the opening match, France - New Zealand, on Friday September 8 (9 p.m.) then France-Uruguay, Thursday September 14 (9 p.m.) and finally France- Italy on Friday, October 6 (9 p.m.).
TF1 will also broadcast the two best quarter-finals (including that of France if it is qualified), the two semi-finals, the duel for third place and the final.
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France Télévisions and M6 in pole position
France Télévisions, for its part, will have ten matches, in particular the group match France-Namibia on September 21 (9 p.m.) and beautiful posters such as South Africa-Scotland on September 10 (5.45 p.m.), Australia-Fiji on September 17 September (5:45 p.m.) and England-Samoa, October 7, 2023 (5:45 p.m.).
The group will also have a quarter-final set to air on October 14 or 15 (at 5 or 9 p.m.).
As for the M6 group, it recovered eighteen confrontations, including interesting pool matches such as Argentina-Samoa on September 22 (5:45 p.m.), Japan-Samoa on September 28 (9 p.m.) and Japan-Argentina on October 8 ( 1 p.m.).
It will also broadcast a quarter-final.
Accustomed to broadcasting football, M6 will, on this occasion, program Rugby World Cup matches for the first time on its antennas.
