Ligue 1 / Ligue 2 TV rights: "Everything interests us" (Frédéric Duval, CEO Amazon France)

"Everything interests us. But this sort of thing cannot be announced on TV," said Frédéric Duval, CEO of Amazon France, when asked about the e-commerce group's interest in football TV rights and in particular those to Ligue 1 Uber Eats, on the BFM Business channel in France on 07/12/2020.

"We have Amazon Prime Video, a streaming service that works well and we will broadcast part of Roland Garros (French Open) from 2021," added the leader whose group has acquired the rights to the matches of the Grand Slam tournament played on the Simonne-Mathieu Court and in evening sessions for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023, on 25/07/2019.

These statements come as the Chinese-Spanish audiovisual group Mediapro and the LFP have not reached an agreement in their conciliation procedure relating to the payment of broadcasting rights to Ligue 1 Uber Eats and Ligue 2 BKT. A period of a few more days has been granted to the two parties to try to agree on a crisis exit scenario, reported the French sports media L'Équipe on 04/12/2020. Mediapro wishes to renegotiate the first year (2020-21) of its…