LFP has admitted failure in the re-tender process for French football league 1 and 2 rights. The bidding was opened following the cancellation of Mediapro’s deal in December 2020 but was doomed when Canal+ boycotted the process. Bids from rivals Amazon, DAZN and Eurosport failed to reach the reserve price. The LFP now is giving […]
Newsbridge, the ultimate cloud platform for next-gen media valorization providing large-scale Multimodal Indexing for audiovisual content via AI, has announced a partnership with the french broadcast network TF1 Group, and the official launch of its advanced content monetization solution for audiovisual archives. This partnership stems from a merged actualization of the group’s intrapreneurial project to […]
French commercial network TF1 has released its Q3/2020 numbers revealing that its revenues came in better than expected. TF1’s current operating profit reached €58 million, up 170 per cent and beating consensus meaningfully. This improvement was driven mostly by better programming costs. Numbers were also partially lifted by better revenues. Net profit came in at […]
French commercial broadcaster TF1 reported a strong operating profit despite a big drop in advertising revenues. TF1’s group ad-revenues fell year-on-year by 41 per cent, but the broadcaster was helped by a stronger programming slate and internal cost-savings. Management comments suggest that the ad-market is slowly recovering but would not be drawn on the outlook […]
French VoD/SVoD platform Salto – a joint venture between TF1, M6 and France Télévisions – has begun its first test phase, a few months before its planned commercial launch later this year. “We’re in the starting blocks, the test phase has started on Wednesday” managing director Thomas Folin told AFP. Initially scheduled for Q1 of […]
As of August 2020, for the long-awaited return of France’s premier football championship, La Ligue, French football will have a new home; the Telefoot channel. Content producer and rightsholder Mediapro Group and French commercial broadcaster TF1 Group have signed what they say is an “unprecedented” agreement. This four-year, renewable partnership is based on three fundamental […]