2023-05-10 15:38:12
In the absence of a broadcaster in France two and a half months before the Women’s World Cup, the Minister of Sports and the Olympics, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, “has entered into discussions with FIFA” and has begun to contact “each of the broadcasters French” in order to “contribute to bringing views closer together”, the ministry said on Wednesday.
While the World Cup will start on July 20 in Australia and New Zealand, no TV channel has acquired the broadcasting rights in France, as in other European countries, for lack of a financial agreement. At the end of April, Fifa explained that it “did not intend to sell off this competition”.
The Ministry of Sports told AFP that the Minister says she has “full confidence in the ability of all the players in the case in France to find, in fine, the ways and means of a fair development of the competition and in particular the matches of the French women’s team this summer”. The ministry also stressed that Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had “contacted several of her European counterparts to share the situation on the sidelines of the Council of Sports Ministers of the European Union on May 15”.
Soon more events “of major importance”
She also asserts her “attachment to the media exposure of women’s sport to consolidate its development”. In this respect, she said last March that she wanted to review the list of “events of major importance” that the law requires to broadcast free of charge, a list of 21 events that has not changed since 2004. The question of revision of this list has been on the table for several years.
Already in 2019, the Ministries of Culture and Sports had launched a consultation aimed at improving the visibility of women’s sport as well as parasport. In January 2022, the Minister Delegate for Sports Roxana Maracineanu had indicated that this list was going to be modernized, and indicated that it would be transmitted to the European Commission which must control and validate it.
Asked about a timetable for the publication of this decree, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra had mentioned in March the prospect of “autumn 2023”. This new list will make it possible to have “both the finals of the Rugby World Cup and football, not only men’s but women’s, which will be protected”, “as well as the Champions League final and the women’s Tour de France”, she then clarified.
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