Mediawan to Produce Content for French Football League’s New Channel

Mediawan, the production-distribution powerhouse behind Plan B and See-Noticed Movies, has been tapped by the Skilled League of Soccer (LPF) to provide all content material for its new channel devoted to the Ligue 1, France’s equal to the Premier League.

By means of its sport division, Mediawan will produce the matches, in addition to the magazines. Mediawan was properly positioned to land this producer function because the group’s CEO, Pierre-Antoine Capton, is a soccer fan and co-owns the staff SM of Caen with Kylian Mbappé.

The brand new direct-to-consumer channel is operated by LFP Media, which is headed by Nicolas de Tavernost, the properly revered former boss of M6, France’s second greatest business channel. Priced at €14.99 monthly, the service will broadcast eight matches per day dwell beginning on Aug. 9, with the ninth, owned by beIN Sports activities, airing on the Qatari channel till the tip of the 2025-2026 season.

Ligue 1 has gone by a rocky couple years after parting methods with its historic pay TV companion Canal+, and falling out with British streamer DAZN. The latter had a five-year contract price €400 million per yr and withheld half of its cost for the primary season of Ligue 1, pointing to low subscriber numbers. After a protracted authorized spat, DAZN got here to an settlement with LFP to get non-exclusive rights to the 9 matches of the Ligue 1 championship. DAZN has additionally been ordered by a French courtroom this week to pay the LPF an indemnity of €85 thousands and thousands for anticipated breach of contract.

These latest struggles have led the French Skilled League to shake up its construction and turn into an entity owned by French golf equipment and personal fairness, following the profitable mannequin of the Premier League.

Regardless of these challenges, French soccer is at the moment on a excessive after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) beat Actual Madrid within the semi-final of the FIFA World Cup with 4-0. PSG will subsequent face Chelsea in the course of the ultimate on Sunday.

Mediawan can also be having a banner summer time with “F1: The Film” which is produced by considered one of its flagship corporations, Plan B, and has generated $293 million on the international field workplace after 10 days of launch, changing into Apple’s highest-grossing film so far.