It is undoubtedly a big sigh of relief on the side of France Télévisions.
The public audiovisual group will continue to broadcast the Men's and Women's Six Nations Tournament on its France 2 and France 3 channels until 2025. "Six Nations Rugby and France Télévisions will continue their relationship, after having reached an agreement in principle for an extension , which will build on the current partnership.
The French national broadcaster will have the exclusive rights to broadcast the 15 matches of the Six Nations Tournament and the 15 matches of the TikTok Women's Six Nations Tournament from 2023 to 2025 inclusive,” the Six Nations committee and France Télévisions announced in a press release.
The rights were put into play and rumors evoked the interest of the TF1 group, broadcaster of the Rugby World Cup in France in 2023, for the next editions of the Tournament, which achieved record audiences this year with the Grand Slam of 'Antoine Dupont and his gang.
Happy to announce that France Télévisions will exclusively broadcast the Six Nations Men's and Women's Tournaments 🏉 until 2025.
Not to mention the 3 matches of the French Team 🇫🇷 this fall against South Africa 🇿🇦, the Australia 🇦🇺 and Japan 🇯🇵.
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— Laurent Eric Le Lay (@LaurentEric) May 10, 2022
“Thanks to this agreement, all French people will be able to continue to watch the exploits of the French teams for free, reacted Laurent-Éric Le Lay, sports boss of France Télévisions.
Our antennas and our digital offers will be mobilized to bring all the competitions to life through live broadcasts, summaries, interviews and reports.
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The next autumn tour also on France 2
France Télévisions also obtains the exclusive rights to broadcast the three matches of the XV of France men during the Autumn Nations Series 2022 with the matches against Australia, South Africa and Japan, announced the Six Nations, organizers of those November test matches.
The clash against the Springbok world champions, the only opponent that Fabien Galthié's Blues have not yet faced, will therefore be broadcast on France 2 in November.
