As the Ligue 1 season in France came to a dramatic close, Canal+ enhanced its final day broadcast coverage by providing viewers with predictions of the likely winners and losers in the title race, using insights powered by Stats Perform’s Qwinn. Those insights included predicting match outcomes with Live Win Probability and predicting the title […] More
Canal+ has launched a new digital channel for the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 football matches previously set to be covered by Mediapro. After agreeing a one season deal with France’s Professional Football League (LFP) to take over coverage of the current season of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches following the collapse of the […] More
Eleven Sports Poland has secured the rights to broadcast the next four seasons of France’s Ligue 1, until 2023-24. The new deal, agreed with beIN Media Group, the international rights-holding partner of Ligue de Football Professionnel, will allow Eleven, alongside Canal+ Polska, to become the home of the French top flight in Poland. Patryk Mirosławski, […] More
Téléfoot, the new Mediapro and TF1 sports channel showcasing Ligue 1 and some European Championship matches in France, launched in August this year. Built from scratch in just two months, Mediapro is suitably proud of its achievement. SVG Europe recently caught up with Cyril Marçot, head of production at Mediapro, to find out how the […] More
Ligue 1 football club AS Saint-Etienne launched a new OTT platform called ASSE TV during lockdown. A subscription-based service, ASSE TV allows club fans to see matches, historical games, magazine programmes and interviews, documentaries and previously unseen behind-the-scenes images. The launch of ASSE TV means Saint-Etienne is one of the first clubs in Ligue 1 […] More
Followers of France’s Ligue 1 are some of the first to experience EVS’s C-Cast technology, which Canal+ has tapped to power its innovative second-screen app for subscribers. Canal Football App launched during the live broadcast of the first headline match of the season between Stade de Reims and Olympique de Marseille in August. It’s a […] More
