France's Superior Council of Audiovisual (CSA) has "taken a step backward," with the adoption of a new ruling on the right to broadcast sport clips, according to L'EQUIPE. The laws of broadcasting practices that allowed for the broadcasting of sport clips on mono-disciplinary shows (such as Téléfoot), which "were agreed upon long ago between broadcasters," were reframed by the CSA. In the new laws, applicable from Jan. 1, the single-theme sports shows (such as Téléfoot) will "not be able to broadcast images from sports competitions until 24 hours after the end of the original program’s broadcast." This will "prohibit Téléfoot from broadcasting clips on Sunday of the goals scored in Ligue 1 matches the day before." TF1 Sports Dir François Pellissier said, “For Ligue 1, we will no longer have the right to broadcast the goals from the previous day, only those of the previous week.” The CSA "also changed the maximum broadcasting length allowed to the non-rights holders, in the name of the right to information." While "ninety seconds per hour of airtime had been previously agreed upon in general news magazines or multi-disciplinary sport magazines," two additional constraints have now been added: “Two broadcasting time-limits of three minutes per day of competition and thirty seconds per match of regular sport competition.” Pellissier spoke out against the new constraints, saying, “Téléfoot is in danger… To take a step back would be dramatic for the viewers who have waited years to have the right to see 90 seconds and 9 months later, we tell them: ‘We are going to take them away from you again?’ That would be terrible… We would be the only football show to not be able to broadcast images of football!” (L’EQUIPE, 11/1).
