Thunderclap in the middle of CAN!

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By: Nicolas Gerbault

On the eve of the semi-finals of the 2025 African Cup of Nations, with the very beautiful Senegal-Egypt (5 p.m.) and Morocco-Nigeria (9 p.m.) posters, broadcast on beIN Sports 1, The Team
announces excellent news: the CAN final, Sunday evening (8 p.m., in the magnificent Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium), will be broadcast unencrypted.

Holder of all TV rights to the tournament, beIN Sports, which achieved audience records with the quarter-finals (641,000 viewers on average in front of Morocco-Cameroon and 480,000 for Algeria-Nigeria), sublicenses the last meeting of the tournament to the M6 ​​group. This was already the case in January 2024 during the coronation of Côte d’Ivoire at home against Nigeria.

Xavier Domergue, number 1 commentator of the M6 ​​group and Ligue 1+, will officiate for the final of the African Cup on the TNT channel, with a consultant who has not yet been chosen, still according to The Team.

The CAN final or Julien Courbet?

The identity of the channel – M6 or W9 – has not yet been determined. Two years ago, the meeting was broadcast on W9. And for good reason, Sunday evening, M6 has a busy evening, likely to attract a lot of audience, with the
2010 by Anne-Sophie Lapix, E=M6 at 8:40 p.m., presented by Mac Lesggy, and above all Capitalthe program hosted by Julien Courbet, from 9:10 p.m.

On W9, the antenna is currently programming the film
The Ascension by Ludovic Bernard (2017), with Ahmed Sylla and Alice Belaïdi as star actors. The Nantes comedian will closely follow the CAN final in the event of the participation of Senegal, his country of origin.