On this Sunday evening of December 29 between two New Year’s Eves, it was the round of 16 of the World Darts Championship that sports fans were able to follow on TV. The fierce darts competitions are particularly telegenic, but the L’Equipe channel especially missed the opportunity to broadcast the Serie A clash between AC Milan and Roma (1-1). The meeting pitted four French internationals against each other (Mike Maignan, Théo Hernandez and Youssouf Fofana on the Lombard side against Manu Koné on the Giallorossi side) and resulted in the sidelining of former Losc coach Paulo Fonseca…
This Milan-Roma was to be followed live on L’Équipe live football and not on the TNT channel, to the great dismay of followers of the Italian championship. The Team is still unable to broadcast Serie A unencrypted due to a technical problem which now appears insoluble. The channel has been blocked for two months, even though the promise of a big match in a top European championship was great news for football fans, scalded at the time by DAZN’s prices for Ligue 1. .
What about the Italian Super Cup on the L’Equipe channel?
As a reminder, last October, the L’Equipe group acquired the TV rights to one poster per day for its channel and a second match for “L’Équipe live football”, a channel accessible to subscribers on its web platforms (the offers subscriptions start at 6.99 euros per month). However, the L’Equipe channel is received in Italy and Switzerland, in regions bordering France, and Serie A, which obviously has paying broadcasters in these two countries, for the moment prohibits L’Equipe from retransmitting matches for free.
The disappointment is all the greater as Serie A, which was broadcast for ten years by beIN Sports, offers an exciting title race this season between Atalanta, Napoli and Inter. The first week of the calcio year offers the Italian Super Cup, with enticing Inter-Atalanta and Milan-Juventus semi-finals. The two meetings, respectively Thursday and Friday, are currently announced on Live Foot to be found on the L’Equipe platforms. To see if the final, next Monday, will be broadcast by the channel.
