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TF1 scores rights for Rugby World Cup 2025, WXV

French broadcaster TF1 will show all the action from an expanded Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025 being held in England, featuring 16 teams, including France who secured automatic qualification by finishing third in New Zealand last year. The deal, which extends the long-standing partnership between the sport’s global governing body and TF1, will also see […]

October 5, 2023

France: TFI acquires UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 rights

TF1 group has acquired the rights to the Women’s Euro 2025, which will be hosted in Switzerland in July 2025. The deal includes the linear and streaming rights in France to the 31 matches in the tournament. At the last Women’s Euro tournament in 2022, the French team’s semi-final defeat attracted more than 6 million […]

September 29, 2023

Banijay France names new leadership

Banijay France, part of media and entertainment powerhouse Banijay, has announced new senior leadership at ALP, with Frédéric Lussato, promoted to President and Julien Magne becoming Managing Director. Both roles are effective immediately in line with Alexia Larouche-Joubert’s promotion to CEO, Banijay France. Lussato, who previously served as Managing Director, ALP, has been upped to […]

September 1, 2023

TF1 suffers ad decline

TF1 Group consolidated revenue for H1 2023 was €1.038 billion down €106.6 million compared to H1 2022. Group advertising revenue was €746.4 million down by €48.3 million (-6.1%) in H1, with a -5.4% change in Q2 2023. Revenue from Newen (programme distribution) totalled €133.7 million, down €24.7 million year-on-year. Current operating profit amounted to €152.3 […]

July 28, 2023

TF1 selects WSC Sports to power Top Chrono

French TV media Group TF1 has selected WSC Sports, and its AI-driven technology, to power its automated real-time and on-demand sports content requirements. WSC Sports’ technology will underpin TF1’s recently announced ‘Top Chrono’ function, available exclusively to users of its MYTF1 streaming platform. Top Chrono offers viewers of events such as the upcoming Men’s Rugby […]

July 13, 2023

France Télévisions calls for broadcaster resistance of streamers

French PSB France Télévisions, which has recently been criticised by commercial TV groups for challenging them in terms of ad revenues and editorial strategy, has called on TF1, M6, Canal+ and Altice to ‘stand together’. “It’s our responsibility not to let the platforms impose a kind of cultural uniformity and not to let social networks […]

July 12, 2023From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Tf1 France, Vox Germany order local versions of My Mum, Your Dad

TF1 in France and Vox in Germany are the next major broadcasters to announce their editions of My Mum, Your Dad, the second-chance dating format created by father-daughter duo Greg Daniels and Haley Daniels with ITV America’s ITV Entertainment, originally for HBO Max. ITV Studios France and ITV Studios Germany will produce the series in […]

July 6, 2023

TF1 targets European free streaming lead

Following the closure of French SVoD service Salto, commercial broadcaster TF1 Group has revealed plans to accelerate into free streaming and become a francophone leader in terms of family events and news, without abandoning the TV screen. CEO Rodolphe Belmer confirmed his ambitions for the MyTF1 platform at a press conference in Paris revealing the […]

June 30, 2023From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

ATS Team promotes Sanz to COO

International production company and production services provider, The ATS Team has announced its appointment of Danny Sanz as COO. Previously MD and EVP Production, Sanz’s new role as COO will see him lead the continued international expansion of The ATS Team, with a focus on the US, Europe and Latin America production markets. Sanz will […]

March 28, 2023

TF1 reveals free streaming strategy

Incoming CEO Rodolphe Belmer has revealed that the French commercial group is looking to become the leading free streaming platform for family entertainment and news, both on linear and VoD. Speaking at Series Mania in Lille, Belmer has confirmed a key digital expansion towards free-of-charge streaming. With SVoD service Salto, a joint-venture with M6 and […]

March 24, 2023From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris