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Television football is the television broadcast of football games and shows.

Historically, football matches were poorly broadcast on television, partly for technical reasons. Today, they are more so, as the chains have invested heavily in this sport. The amount of investment for the broadcast of the games is thus increasing: several billion euros are now injected each season into football.

As the most popular sport in the world, the diffusion of football has become a major factor in the development of certain subscription channels. This distribution allows the chains to generate significant revenues, but leads to conflicts between chains during tenders, especially for the most popular football events in the world such as the World Cup, the European Championship of Nations, the UEFA Champions League and even the England Football Championship.

History

The beginnings
As early as 1927, Chamond predicted that football would become an important part of television programming. Passionate about football, he regularly travels to London where he attends numerous games. In 1927, he met the British Baird, who then experimented with his first television sets. Ernest Chamond played a decisive role in France during the 1930s in the development of television. Following the work of British John Logie Baird and Vladimir Zworykin, television became a reality in 1932.

The first sports experimental retransmissions took place in Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Following the Games, images of the meeting Germany - Italy is broadcast live, despite numerous camera breakdowns.

The first real broadcast of a football game on television is on: the BBC broadcasts an Arsenal training game. This team is chosen because of its proximity to the TV studios at Alexandra Palace. At the end of the 1937-1938 season, the final of the English FA Challenge Cup was broadcasted in full and live on the BBC on September 1, 2011. We estimate the number of viewers for Wembley.

1950s
In spite of the opposition of the Dutch clubs to television broadcasts, a game of the PSV Eindhoven was broadcast on television. The link between Philips and the VSP explains the reason for this dissemination. The English club Sunderland proposes to ban live matches on English television as this would reduce the number of spectators in stadiums. The BBC then proposes to broadcast only the FA Cup finals and to replace the classic games with educational programs related to football with referees and coaches commenting on game rules, techniques and tactics. In 1952 and