Coupe de France: Euro Media Group acquires the production rights to matches broadcast by Eurosport

Euro Media Group, an audiovisual services company, has acquired, from Discovery, the audiovisual production rights to Coupe de France matches broadcast by the pay-TV group Eurosport (more than 60 per season), on 18/10/2018.

The contract, for two seasons plus two optional additional seasons, will begin in November 2018 (from Round 7 of the 2018-19 Coupe de France with the entry of Domino's Ligue 2 clubs). Some matches will be broadcast in Ultra High Definition.

Eurosport and the public-TV group France Télévisions acquired the rights to broadcast the Coupe de France, over the 2018-2022 cylce, on 27/07/2017. France Télévisions broadcast one game per round of the Coupe de France from the Round of 64 while Eurosport broadcasts more than 60 matches exclusively, half of which are broadcast solely on the OTT platform Eurosport Player.

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