TV rights: Canal+ recovers Premier League rights (2019-2022) after losing Ligue 1 rights (2020-2024)

The TV group Canal+ will recover Premier League broadcast rights in France, over the 2019-2022 cycle, three years after losing them to Altice (Altice Europe since 08/06/2018), the current holder of these rights (2016-2019 cycle).

This acquisition comes five months after the loss of the Ligue 1 Conforama TV rights (2020-2024 cycle) to the Chinese-Spanish audiovisual group Mediapro and 18 months after the loss of rights to the Champions League (Canal+ broadcasted one game per matchday during the 2015-2018 cycle), now broadcast on RMC Sport (2018-2021 cycle).

As the historical broadcaster (since 1984) of Ligue 1, Canal+ intends to continue to be after 2020 as stated several times by Maxime Saada, CEO of the group: "I'm not sure that the current situation is definitive (on 29/05/2018, the evening of the allocation of the rights); I have no doubt that we will have Ligue 1 after 2020 (04/09/2018); Until a conclusion is reached, I will discuss with Mediapro all possible scenarios: the return of a channel, why not the resumption of matches, even if I understand that this is not their…