French media company Vivendi and its pay-television broadcaster, Canal Plus, have struck a partnership with the ESL esports league.
Under the deal, a new esports league will be launched in France, with coverage of the tournament and other ESL events being shown on Canal Plus platforms and Vivendi’s video-sharing website, Dailymotion.
Canal Plus will show a new magazine programme, Esports Canal Club, which will be dedicated to esports. Canal Plus will also show Game Fever, a documentary focused on esports, on October 26, before broadcasting coverage of Paris Games Week from October 27-31.
ESL has hosted more than 12,000 online events and the league will collaborate with Vivendi and Canal Plus to stage new events in France.
http://www.sportbusiness.com/sport-news/vivendi-canal-plus-strike-esl-esports-deal
Pues esta es la nueva noticia, Canal + y la ESL firman. Cabe recordar que Canal + es uno de los maximos accionistas de VIT y por otra parte el dueño de la ESL el dueño de la mitad de G2, veamos si esto trae cola.....
Y pasa justo despues de la compra de una parte de la LVP por parte de MediaPro.