2024-04-26 16:03:25
Basketball and French Championship fans will be able to continue to follow the performances of their favorite players and teams. The Basketball League (LNB) and the digital platform Skweek have, according to our information, reached an agreement for the broadcast of the Betclic Élite until the end of the season.
Forced to a black screen since last week, due to the conflict between L’Équipe and Skweek, viewers will therefore be able to watch again, from this Sunday, all the matches – except those broadcast on La Chaîne L’Équipe – on the digital platform.
The LNB sent a letter this Friday, which Le Parisien was able to consult, to the clubs to announce the news. “We are satisfied with this outcome given the situation in which we found ourselves a week ago,” indicates Fabrice Jouhaud, general director of the LNB in this email. This device will give the apotheosis of our season the widest possible visibility and will highlight the most important and thrilling emotions and adventures: those which take place on the courts. »
Skweek, which also broadcasts Monaco’s Euroleague matches on its channels, will also broadcast all the playoff matches which will not be scheduled on L’Équipe. The latter announced that it would broadcast six matches among the quarter-finals and semi-finals as well as 100% of those in the final. When contacted, the League did not wish to respond.
As a reminder, on Wednesday April 17, the L’Équipe group announced that it had unilaterally terminated the contract which linked it to the subsidiary of FedCom Media, a branch of the multinational FedCom, due to late payments. The damage amounts to several million euros. Following this decision, the LNB therefore recovered its TV rights. It had since reached an agreement with L’Équipe to continue broadcasting the Sunday poster and the best matches of the playoffs then, since this Friday, with Skweek.
This agreement therefore offers visibility to French basketball, at least for this season. However, the situation is still not resolved between Skweek and L’Équipe which, according to our information, has still not obtained reimbursements for the production of the matches – via its company 21 Prod – since the start of the season. The Asvel club, of which Skweeek is one of the main sponsors, would also find itself in great financial difficulty.
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