© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of French TV channel ‘Canal Plus’ is pictured outside a company building in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris, France, August 17, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s antitrust authority said on Wednesday it has rejected a claim by pay TV channel Canal Plus and beIN Sports that the French football professional league (LFP) abused its dominant position when it awarded Amazon (NASDAQ:) broadcasting rights to the main League 1 matches.
France’s Autorite de la Concurrence said in a statement it had not found “sufficient evidence” to back the claim that LFP treated them differently from Amazon when it re-allocated to Amazon the bulk of the rights for Leaque 1 matches until 2024 that were previously held by Spanish broadcaster Mediapro.
The broadcast contracts help fund France’s soccer clubs.
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