The cloth burns again between the BeIN Sports channel and the LFP (Professional Football League) according to The team. A year after a tight showdown around the payment of TV rights, the Franco-Qatarian broadcaster puts the pressure before the resumption of Ligue 1 scheduled for August 15. Bein believes that he does not have for his money with the poster on Saturday at 5 p.m. (purchased € 78.5 million), in particular because of the restrictions imposed. These restrictions are numerous: impossibility of broadcasting the same team in the season more than eight times, a ban on programming the same club twice in a row, or even choices 1 or 2 alternating, often disturbed by the European calendar.
BeIN would even judge that these constraints considerably reduce the real value of its batch, especially since the termination of Dazn contract, the former main broadcaster of the French championship. The chain calls for a more flexible application of the agreement, as initially planned, but the LFP is camping on its positions. Without consideration, no change is therefore envisaged. A situation reminiscent of the showdown of the past season, where Bein had delayed his payments before an agreement found last January. Business to follow …
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