JT advanced at 7:20 p.m., Adil Rami consultant, Rudi Garcia commentator … TF1 unveiled Monday its system for the World Cup in Qatar (November 20-December 18), with 28 unencrypted posters on the program, including all matches bruises. Eleven days before kick-off, the coach of the France team, Didier Deschamps, will reveal the list of players selected for the competition at 8 p.m. on TF1, where he will answer questions from Gilles Bouleau.
TF1 will broadcast 28 matches out of 64
The festivities will begin on November 20 at 4:20 p.m. with the opening ceremony, followed by the Qatar-Ecuador match, commented by the Grégoire Margotton-Bixente Lizarazu duo. They will be relayed for certain meetings by a new duo made up of journalist Julien Brun and former OL coach Rudi Garcia, currently working at the Saudi club Al-Nassr. For their part, the Blues will compete against Australia on November 22 at 8 p.m., a schedule which will concern 16 “consecutive” matches between “November 21 and December 6”, declared to Figaro François Pellissier, deputy general manager of TF1. Hence an advanced newscast at 7:20 p.m.
TF1 will broadcast the 28 “most beautiful posters” out of a total of 64 matches, broadcast by the pay package beIN Sports. They will be followed by the program “Le Mag”, presented by Denis Brogniart, surrounded by 2018 world champion Adil Rami, former French international Rio Mavuba, former player Nadia Benkmokhtar and journalist Marine Marck from the magazine Téléfoot, hosted by Thomas Mekhiche and where Didier Deschamps will intervene. On social networks, the daily Téléfoot on YouTube and Facebook will also be available twice a week on Snapchat. In addition, TMC will broadcast a documentary by Grégoire Margotton on the France team in mid-November, “Renaissance, a Blue Decade”.
The leaders of TF1 “not worried” about the conflict with Canal +
Despite the conflict with Canal +, which stopped broadcasting TF1 in early September, its leaders are “not worried” about the audiences of the World Cup, assured the team its sports director, Julien Millereux. It is “the kind of popular events that people need in this very difficult period” abounded François Pellissier, questioned by Figaro on the controversies surrounding the conditions of organization in Qatar and calls for a boycott. This “will not prevent us from dealing with subjects related to societal and climate issues in our information editions”, he insisted.
In 2018, the World Cup attracted an average of 8.7 million viewers over 28 matches broadcast by TF1.