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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that French football’s TV presence is under threat as no one wants to pay the £693million annual fee to stream Ligue 1 and 2 games.
They have received zero bids for broadcasting rights.
The Professional Football League’s (LFP) longest-standing broadcast partner Canal Plus failed to make an offer for the 2024-29 cycle on Monday.
This forced Ligue 1 to launch the bid on Tuesday without the French TV giants in the hope they can sell the Ligue 1 broadcast rights.
Five bundles were on offer, including the two main bundles for the rights to broadcast games live.
One bundle was worth £459million and included the two biggest matches of the game week plus the fourth-choice fixture.
Earlier, this year, two greats Lionel Messi and Neymar exited from Paris Saint-Germain. Messi went to Inter Miami, while headed to Saudi Arabia, and now plays for Al Hilal. If reports are to be believed, PSG’s biggest player at the moment, Kylian Mbappe’s future is uncertain at the moment. That leaves the league without any star power, that could help them generate any sort of revenue through the broadcast rights.
While the second was worth was worth £234 million to stream the rest of the matches that are not shown by other broadcasters.
However, there were no takers for the current price including Canal Plus, meaning LFP will have to negotiate directly with them and other interested TV services, according to L’Equipe.
LFP officials said: “After having received multiple qualitative offers and guaranteed financial packages on all of the bundles (1-5).
“LFP Media reveals that none of the bundles have been attributed today (Tuesday).
In a major development, the French Professional leagues, Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, face the prospect of disappearing from the television screens, as they have not received any bids for the broadcasting rights, as per a report in The Sun. The report further suggests that there were no takers to stream the matches for a hefty sum of £693million/annually. The league’s broadcast partner for a long time, Canal Plus did not make a bid for the upcoming 2024-29 cycle.
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