The encrypted channel announced in a press release on Wednesday that it had extended its rights to broadcast the English championship for the 2022-2025 cycle, exclusively.
They weren’t going to let those go either. In a press release published on Wednesday, the Canal + group announced that it had acquired the rights to the Premier League, the English championship, for three additional seasons and exclusively. His current rights, shared with RMC Sport, still run until the end of next season. This new contract will cover the seasons 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025, for 380 games per season. How much did it all cost? The amount of the deal has not yet been disclosed. Currently, Canal + and RMC Sport share a bill of around 100 million euros per season. Will the partnership continue? This is the other great unknown, especially as Canal + prides itself on the exclusivity of these three additional seasons.
A clue, perhaps, on the amount of the invoice: for the British territory, the Premier League had announced on May 13 that it had renewed the broadcasting rights with the same broadcasters (Sky Sports, BT Sport, Amazon and the BBC), without tendering. A contract of the same amount as the previous one, therefore, at 4.5 billion pounds (5.2 billion euros), to face the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis. In the Canal + press release, the chairman of the management board, Maxime Saada, believes his group “Particularly happy” the extension of these rights. “It is above all a great pleasure for our subscribers who greatly approve of this championship”, he added. The partnership between Canal + and the Premier League goes further, since Saada announces that agreements have also been concluded to broadcast the English championship for Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Canal + is present in these territories via the operator M7.
Still behind in Ligue 1
For the Vivendi subsidiary, it is in any case the assurance of an attractive championship to be broadcast for many more years to its French subscribers, in addition to the Champions League. Canal + will indeed offer two posters per day of European competition at the start of the school year, until 2024. Premier League, Champions League… Two major football products, in the absence of Ligue 1. Scorched by the agreement concluded between the Ligue 1 professional football and Amazon on June 11, Canal + had promptly, in a solemn press release, announced its withdrawal from the French championship. The future of the two matches per day that the channel continued to operate, under license from BeIn Sports, is still unclear. These should be the next twists and turns of an endless saga. Tuesday, a first episode was played out with the non-payment, by BeIn Sports, of the first installment of its contract of 30 million euros per year for the two weekly posters of Ligue 2.
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