You may have had trouble finding the extension of the final of the Women's Euro 2025 on your Canal+platform, Sunday evening. And for good reason. TF1 broadcast the big poster between Spain World Champion 2023 and England 2022 European Champion, from 6 p.m., with Grégoire Margotton and Bixente Lizarazu from Zurich, but the meeting then disappeared from the antenna before the extension.
Since the Three Lionesses and La Roja did not manage to decide after 90 minutes of play (before the coronation of the Englishmen at the end of the penalty shootout), TF1 then produced a rocking worthy of the France TV channels during the major sporting events offered by the public service, in order to broadcast the TV news at 8 p.m. Logic ? Not that much, because TF1 has never suddenly stopped the dissemination of a meeting of the France team of Didier Deschamps.
The meeting continued on TMC, but the second channel of the TF1 group then displayed, on the channel+grid, the broadcast of Mysteries of love and more specifically an episode of the current season 36 of the series derived fromHĂ©lène and the boys. Absolutely improbable. Thus, some may have missed the shot to the goal not transformed by the double gold balloon Aitana Bonmati which precipitated the defeat of the Seleccion …
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Until the end, TF1 has definitely not respected its promises. In 2023, the audiovisual group had announced that it
” happy “ acquire TV rights of the 2025 female Euro in Switzerland for the “Linear and streaming broadcast, exclusively and in full the 31 games of this prestigious competition”. That was before giving in the secondary matches of the European championship to France TV but also the second outing of the Blue against Wales (4-1), on July 9.
It was also before deprogramming the third group match of Laurent Bonadei's players, against the Netherlands (5-2), to switch the final of the Club World Cup between PSG and Chelsea, exactly at the same time (3 p.m. in New York, 9 p.m. in France), on TF1. The Margotton-Lizarazu duo then switched from one competition to another and the TF1 group ended up giving in the Bleues meeting to France TV.