[2] On 31 August 1998, Groupe Amaury launched a television channel spun off from its daily sports newspaper L'Équipe.

[3] On 5 March 2012, Groupe Amaury answered an invitation to tender for one of six new high definition DTT channel slots extended by the French television regulatory authority, the CSA.

Amaury's proposal to bring its existing L'Equipe TV to the platform,[4] with an increased focus on live events, was backed by the French National Olympic and Sports Committee and the country's horse racing industry against the other bidder, NextRadioTV's RMC Sport HD.

[citation needed] On 25 July 2012, the CSA awarded Channel 21 on the French DTT network, known as TNT (Télévision Numérique Terrestre), to Amaury.

[2] The channel shares its premises in Boulogne-Billancourt with its sister publication,[1] and some of the newspaper's columnists have acted as on-air pundits.