Audiovisual: The French Audiovisual Council authorises diffusion of MMA on television and on-demand audiovisual media services

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. By a deliberation dated 21 October 2020, the CSA authorized the retransmission of Mixed Martial Arts fights or Mixed Martial Arts ["MMA"] as well as their broadcast on television and on audiovisual media services on demand. In doing so, the audiovisual regulator went back on its recommendation No. 2005-8 of 20 December 20 (Recommendation No. 2005-8 of 20 December 2005 to television service publishers concerning the retransmission of certain types of fights JORF No. 7 of 8 January 2006) by which it had enjoined "television service publishers not to broadcast fights that would not be governed by a national federation approved by the Minister in charge of