TV: RMC Sport will disappear, the shock announcement!

The RMC Sport channel, which was launched in 2016 and made a reputation for itself by broadcasting the Premier League and the Champions League for a number of years, is on the verge of disappearing.

On the time, RMC Sport had develop into important because of the unique broadcast of the Champions League. This time is now distant insofar because the channel have to be glad with two C1 posters in co-broadcast with Canal +, the Europa League, the Convention League and the Portuguese soccer championship. Not likely sufficient to run a pay channel at full velocity. Particularly since on August 5, the CEO of Altice Media revealed to his editors the non-renewal of the Premier League co-broadcasting settlement with Canal. A blow for RMC, which had made over time of the English championship its flagship product, the one which crammed its grid from Friday to Monday night.

In direction of an inevitable stoppage of RMC Sport?

🗣 Mattéo Guendouzi on the microphone of RMC Sport after Tottenham-OM: “Within the first half, we had been superior to them.” pic.twitter.com/p4k4JQviFE

– RMC Sport (@RMCsport) September 7, 2022

CGT union consultant, Alban Azaïs explains in L’Equipe that in keeping with him, the channel will cease broadcasting inside two years. “With hindsight, the workers perceive that the channels had been launched to revive the SFR picture on the time when it was needed and that there was no actual want to register over time… We expect that it was a advertising stunt, that we’ll go to the tip of the present rights till 2024 after which it will likely be over. analyzes this union consultant, satisfied that the journey will finish within the subsequent two years for RMC Sport, whose weak sports activities supply doesn’t enable it to show and be worthwhile. A member of the chain, nevertheless, slips to the nationwide day by day that subscribers, who pay 9 or 19 euros relying on whether or not they subscribe to SFR or not, are nonetheless quite a few. “We’ve got typically been advised that France is the nation the place we unsubscribe the least in Europe. And as stopping the RMC Sport channels would facilitate the termination of many SFR subscribers, this actually explains why we live on right this moment. explains this member of the channel, who doesn’t nevertheless have too many illusions for the years to return on the aspect of RMC, which is a success on the radio with its historic applications (Tremendous Moscato Present, After Foot) however which struggles to exist at tv.