Advanced Television

ligue 1

ITV scores Ligue 1 highlights

LFP Media and ITV have announced a deal that will see ITV broadcast the weekly Ligue 1 McDonald’s highlights magazine show in the UK during the current 2024/25 season. ITV will broadcast the magazine show compiling all the key highlights from the previous weekend of France’s top flight football league. The first programme will be […]

October 30, 2024By Nik Roseveare

France: DAZN discounts Ligue 1

Sports streaming platform DAZN, which recently acquired Ligue 1 TV rights in France for €400 million per season, has announced a discount price on its Ligue 1 annual subscription fee less than a month into the new season. From September 10th to 22nd, the monthly free subscription will be 50 per cent less expensive, dropping […]

September 9, 2024From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Switzerland: Serie A, Ligue 1 on Sunrise TV via DAZN

Swiss football fans from any of the language regions can watch all Serie A and Ligue 1 football matches now available live on Sunrise TV in Italian, German or English (Serie A) or in French, German or English (Ligue 1). This is thanks to the DAZN app, which is now integrated within Sunrise TV. DAZN […]

August 15, 2024

France: DAZN scores Ligue 1 deal

DAZN, the sports streaming platform, has acquired exclusive live rights, replay, near live highlights and clips to Ligue 1 football in France for the next five seasons. DAZN will become the new home of Ligue 1 McDonald’s football, offering French fans all 306 matches in one place: eight Ligue 1 matches live and exclusively, on […]

August 1, 2024By Nik Roseveare

DAZN, beIN score Ligue 1 rights

With the start of the French top flight football Ligue 1 season fast approaching, a deal for the broadcasting rights for the upcoming cycle has finally been reached. Governing body the LFP had been seeking a €1 billion bid for the 2024-2029 cycle, however, received no bids at auction, leading to talks with individual broadcasters, […]

July 15, 2024By Colin Mann

DAZN, WBD eye domestic Ligue 1 rights

Ahead of the new Ligue 1 season it is still unknown how domestic fans will be able to watch France’s top flight football league. France’s Professional Football League (LFP) failed to reach a decision on a broadcast deal at a recent meeting of club representatives and, as previously reported, is considering launching its own DTC […]

July 9, 2024

Switzerland: DAZN scores Ligue 1, Serie A rights

DAZN, the sports and entertainment platform, has announced the extension of broadcasting rights for Serie A and Ligue 1 in Germany and Austria. Additionally DAZN will become the exclusive broadcaster for these competitions in Switzerland for the first time. These  three-year media rights agreements with Italy and France’s top-tier football leagues also come with additional […]

June 14, 2024

Lille scores WSC Sports partnership

Ligue 1 football team LOSC (Lille Olympique Sporting Club), has teamed with WSC Sports, the specialist in AI-driven content, to power the club’s digital content strategy. The partnership will see LOSC utilise WSC Sports’ cloud-based AI-powered video content solution to maximise its production capabilities and enable video content to be shared with fans more efficiently […]

February 23, 2024

France: ‘No suitable bid for Ligue 1 rights’

The French football Ligue 1 TV rights tender for 2024-2029, launched in September, has been declared unsuccessful. Professional league body  LFP had set opening bids at €800 million per season for the domestic market. “After having received several qualitative offerings for all the one to five lots, none of them has been attributed for auction,” […]

October 18, 2023From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Canal+ won’t bid for Ligue 1 rights

French pay-TV company Canal+, which has aired Ligue 1 football since 1984, has informed the French Professional Football League (LFP) that it will not participate in the current domestic rights TV tender for the 2024-2029 period. The news was confirmed to press agency AFP after it leaked to sports newspaper L’Équipe. The tender was launched […]

September 25, 2023From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris