On Friday June 7th, the team from the first French channel met to present the system for the Rugby World Cup, which will be held in France from September 8th to October 28th, 2023.
“Sport is capable of generating something huge audience, as well as very strong emotions. Our goal is to bring the French people together and our role in that official broadcaster Rugby World Cup faithfully reflects that desire.”. This is how Rodolphe Belmer, CEO of the TF1 Group, opens the conference organized in the TF1 Tower to present the system that will accompany the transmission. from September 8 to October 28, 2023, the biggest rugby competition. Before the event, the four preparatory games of the XV. from France and an immersive documentary at the Blues Training Center will be on the channel’s schedule to keep viewers waiting.
new recruits
Frédéric Michalak, Yoann Huget, Marjorie Mayans, Stefan Etcheverry… The Rugby World Cup will be a sign for in particular the arrival of many new faces (and many new voices) in the team of commentators and sportswriters of the first chain. While she’s broadcasting the 20 best games of the competition (at prime time), the latter provides a magazine after each meeting. Isabelle Ithurburu at the helmThe short-lived program allows Marjorie Mayans, Inès Hirigoyen, Frédéric Michalak, Yoann Huget and Yannick Nyanga to discuss the performances of the two evening teams and the day’s results in general. Something to satisfy fans of the oval ball! Two teams of commentators have been selected to broadcast the games: François Trillo, Benjamin Kayser and Christian Califano for the first team, while Stefan Etcheverry and Thomas Lombard will form the second team.
In addition to this transfer window, the TF1 Group intends to “an innovative, comprehensive and sophisticated digital offer” to the viewers. First, the “one” will take advantage his access to all pictures of the competition pour to strengthen its presence on social networks. I want to animate a “A community of 21 million people ready to vibrate for the blues”the station entered into an unprecedented partnership with the multinational meta. “With our partner, for the first time in France, we will use: the Instagram Channel Broadcast feature This allows us to interact with fans of the oval ball. We will also give you a prelude to each game of the XV. France’s offer and vertical dots tracing the best actions of the competition will be broadcast on the meta-platforms., says Julien Millereux, sporting director of TF1. Finally, the main innovation developed by the audiovisual group and presented during the press conference the new “Top Chrono” feature. Starting September 8th, it will give users the ability to generate energy Match summaries “à la carte”.. The latter can thus determine the duration of the videos according to their availability.
The misplaced 8 p.m. newspaper
The device doesn’t stop there! The channel’s other programs will also be in rhythm with the football World Cup, like Anne-Claire Coudray’s 8 p.m. news. “To celebrate the opening game of the competition, we will move the newspaper. However, filming of the JT will not take place at TF1’s studios in the Stade de France itself! As a former field journalist, I am very excited to live this experience and to be able to offer it to viewers.”, enthuses the moderator. Exceptionally, the television news on this occasion begins with at 7 p.m. See you on September 8th.
