CMA Media finalizes the acquisition of RMC Sport and launches CMA Sport

The CMA Media group, which owns BFMTV, RMC, La Tribune and Brut, has finalized the purchase of the RMC Sport channel and is launching a new entity, CMA Sport, to make this area “a major pillar of its development”, it announced on Friday.

The media branch of billionaire Rodolphe Saadé's shipowner CMA CGM announced in June that it was in the process of buying RMC Sport, for an unspecified amount. This channel previously belonged to the Altice group, from which CMA CGM had already purchased in the summer of 2024 the television channels BFMTV, RMC Découverte and RMC Story, as well as RMC radio.

Under the CMA Media flag, RMC Sport will continue to offer fights from the UFC, the main MMA (mixed martial arts) league, as well as those from other championships in this discipline (Hexagon MMA, KSW, PFL, etc.), which has become its trademark. “New announcements will soon enrich this offer,” CMA Media said in a press release.

“the ambition to change the scale in sport”

“We are going to move on to other sports rights,” commented Camille Andrieu, the new general director of CMA Media, during a conference organized in Paris for the 25th anniversary of the specialized firm NPA Conseil, which brought together players in the sector. “We are not denying ourselves anything, including the elephant in the middle of the room,” continued the director without elaborating further, in a highly contested sports rights market, in particular in the main discipline, football.

She will officially take up her duties on Monday and will succeed Claire Léost, a change announced by the group on Thursday. With the creation of CMA Sport, CMA Media has “the ambition to change the scale of sport”, underlined the group in its press release.

On the broadcasting side, he wants to “rely on RMC Sport to develop its rights portfolio”. On the production side, he wishes to “offer his know-how to leagues, federations, rights holders, clubs, broadcasters and organizers”. Finally, it focuses on “events, by organizing competitions and sporting events and ultimately developing its own events and properties”. In addition to its television and radio channels, CMA Media owns the newspapers La Provence, Corse Matin, La Tribune and La Tribune Dimanche and the online media Brut.