LFP: "Selling exclusive TV rights in the traditional way no longer makes sense" (J-M Aulas, OL)

"The fact of selling exclusive rights, in the traditional way, no longer makes sense in the face of the possibility of having content on demand for everyone. There is an obvious price dimension. If on the one hand Mediapro does not manage to have as many subscribers as they wished, it is because the cumulative offer of TV rights, as compared to selective ones, is no longer attractive. We arrive at a disproportionate total price, whereas we can easily adapt the offer to the user's needs. We would thus multiply the potential users," said Jean-Michel Aulas, president of Olympique Lyonnais (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), to the French magazine Challenges on 03/11/2020.

"I would be quite favorable, if we recover some of the rights, that we manage to coordinate with Canal+ and Free (holder of the other lots of TV rights to Ligue 1), to review, in the short or medium term, the reflection in order to integrate a certain number of FAANGs or other actors on demand in the distribution of TV rights. Or even think about a sports streaming platform. There is no reason that we have to be different from…