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FR] Rights for excerpts from Football World Cup: last- minute agreement between TF1 and BeIN SportsBroadcasting Rights Agreement • August 11th, 2024
An agreement between TF1 and BeIN Sports, joint holders of the rights to broadcast the 2014 World Cup in France, was reached just two days before the start of the competition, enabling other television channels to acquire match excerpts. TF1, a private channel broadcasting unencrypted, had acquired full broadcasting rights for 130 million euros, and the Qatari sport channel BeIN Sports bought the rights from it for all the matches. BeIN Sports was thus offering live broadcasting of all 64 matches in the competition, showing 36 of them in exclusivity. TF1 for its part will be broadcasting 28, including those in which the French national team plays. The last-minute agreement reached by the joint holders of the rights thus enables those other channels wishing to broadcast longer excerpts than provided for in information law (i.e. free of charge for news broadcasts and limited by the audiovisual regulatory authority (Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel - CSA) to 90 seconds per hour of air t
