France football TV rights: "Today, we are more in a logic of sharing (rights)" (Alain Weill, Altice)

"We are very calm since RMC Sport is a success in the sense that the channels contributed, in a complicated period for SFR, to revive the business, which is doing very well today. We are today in a different context and the sports rights market is also evolving. Today, we are more in a logic of sharing (sports rights). We have lost the rights to the Premier League and finally we now co-broadcast it with Canal+,", said Alain Weill, CEO of Altice France and Europe, the parent company of the French RMC Sport pay-TV package, on 08/01/2020.

"We still have the rights to the Champions League for 18 months. We will see what happens afterwards, maybe we will broadcast part of the matches, all of them, or nothing, but all this remains very open. But we are not at all in a tense situation currently on the subject. Broadcasting Ligue 1 in agreement with Mediapro? Why not? We will see, it is a possibility to look at," said Alain Weill.

"We have not created sports channels solely linked to these rights (the Champions League) since by definition we can lose them. We must also agree to lose them…