Canal+, now a broadcaster of the European Cups in full, and BeIN Sports, which retransmits all foreign championships since its beginnings in France in 2012, can be blamed. The two paid channels (Bein is distributed by C+) have let the TV rights of the King Cup and the Spanish Super Cup escape in recent years. A fairly incredible boon for the L'Equipe channel, TNT channel and therefore free which, with its modest means, always offers more live football, moreover of great matches.
Last January, for example, the TV channel of the L'Equipe group was able to offer a Clasico FC Barcelona-Real Madrid to football fans in France, particularly delighted to find the Blaugranas and the band at Kylian Mbappé so easily on their phone, computer or television. Dazn, the main diffuser of Ligue 1, has indeed changed the mode of consumption of part of the followers of the round ball. The subscription being far too expensive at the start of the season, many have turned to illegal means.
During this Clasico, the L'Equipe channel had thus made an audience record with a magnificent average of 1.3 million viewers. The Barça offensive festival against the Merengues had also given a peak to 1.7 million viewers! Audimat's cardboard is all the more impressive since PSG was playing in the same way a Ligue 1 meeting against Saint-Etienne (2-1) that Sunday evening (January 12), on Dazn therefore.
The chain of the team against PSG
Real Madrid-Psg, this is again the distance match of this Tuesday evening! What will the hearings of the semi-final return from the King of Carlo Ancelotti on the L'Equipe channel? Real finds Real Sociedad (kick-off 9:30 p.m.) more than a month after a 1-0 victory (endrick goal) in Saint-Sébastien. We should find all the star players of the club of the entry capital. Opposite, PSG is this time to find on France 2, for its semi-final of the Coupe de France against Dunkirk (kick-off at 9:10 p.m.). The suspense is less between the French football monster and the 5th in Ligue 2.
The L'Equipe channel, which has excited sports fans with the biathlon season (one million viewers on average, 23 % increased from last year), continues Wednesday evening with the second semi-final return of the Spanish Cup between Atlético d'Antoine Griezmann and Barça Leader of the Liga (again at 9:30 p.m.). The two teams had left each other on a spectacular 4-4 to go to Montjuïc. Robert Lewandowski had brought the scoring to 4-2 but goals from Marcos Llorente and Alexander Sorho put the Colchoneros in the blow.
