La Chaine L'Équipe: "There will be other announcements concerning TV rights" (J. Saporito)

"The channel continues to increase its audience, but the crisis is there. We won't do just anything but we won't hesitate to take advantage of opportunities like the Spanish Cup (the channel acquired the rights to the Copa del Rey and the Supercopa de España for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons, as well as for the 2019-20 Cup final on 26/06/2020). We are looking at everything available on the rights market. All rights holders, all federations solicit us since we are the only free-to-air sports channel. In the next three months there will be other announcements concerning TV rights," said Jérôme Saporito, director of La chaine L'Équipe, during the free French sports channel's resumption web-conference on 09/07/2020.

"This lockdown period has been special. It was scary and then exciting. We had to move fast, we had to be creative. We bet on vintage with bike races or legendary football matches. For the first time, we also added to our film schedule, some of which drew an average of more than 500,000 viewers. We broadcast the virtual Tour de Suisse because it was the right time to do…