A new competitor for the L'Equipe chain

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

Despite the imbroglio around the Serie A last season, the L'Equipe channel has developed a good offer of live matches. Another TNT channel could offer football for free.

The L'Equipe channel has almost too many TV rights of sporting events. In recent days, it is delayed that TNT channel 21 has broadcast OM preparation matches against Girona (2-0) and Valence (1-1). The great anger of the Phocaean supporters, who had to wait for the end of a rugby test test, between Australia and the British and Irish lions last weekend, then the outcome of a semi-final of the French pétanque championships on Tuesday.

Especially since the team is not at its first. The Real Madrid and Barça matches in the King's Cup and in Spanish Super Cup have made a box in recent years, but some meetings have been broadcast late. A heresy nowadays, it does not matter if the TV emissions of the media are essential and also have their fervent admirers.

Also a broadcaster of the playoffs of the World Cup, Euro and CAN, or even friendly matches of large clubs this summer (but on its live football channel, accessible to subscribers), the L'Equipe channel may be competed by a channel that arrives on TNT on September 1, Novo 19.

Novo 19 against the L'Equipe chain?

The history of regional media Ouest-France thus launches a general television channel and, according to Le Figarothe future channel 19 does not refrain from buying the TV rights of certain sports competitions. The opportunity to enhance regional meetings and possibly news of Breton and Norman clubs. The presenter Claire Arnoux and the columnist Claude Askolovitch, both spent by BeIN Sports, joined the antenna.

Ouest-France In fact covers three regions (Pays de la Loire, Normandie, Brittany), fourteen departments, and that makes a lot of clubs: six in Ligue 1 with the Angers SCO, the Stade Brestois, the Havre AC, FC Lorient, FC Nantes and Stade Rennais, and three in Ligue 2 with the En Avant Guingamp, Le Mans FC and the Laval Stade Detained by Kylian Mbappé, relegated to National with the US Concarneau, FC Rouen, QRM and the Stade Briochin. What to accompany the treatment of football from L'Equipe on TNT?