To overcome competition concerns, there are usually limits on lengths of contracts between the broadcaster and the sports body, and requirements that broadcasting rights be offered to platforms on reasonable terms.
Yet analysts caution that broadcasting in English does not guarantee success.
But he said that broadcasting it for wide viewership would have been another matter.
Hervé Béroud, the editorial director at BFMTV, has admitted that broadcasting the information was a mistake.
Executives who are not on their way out are learning that broadcasting their feelings can have unintended consequences.
Calling himself a "great believer in shareholder companies", he said that broadcasting was unique and benefited from its ownership diversity.
He added that the judge appeared to accept the network's contention that broadcasting rules should be decided by Congress.
Judge Bea noted in his opinion that Congress could try again to restrict such ads if there was clear evidence that broadcasting them "would cause substantial harm".
ABC said that broadcasting the film was a timely tribute to the sacrifices and valor of those who served during the war.
Britons may not be aware that broadcasting an average of 10 programmes a week about a war won some 50 years before is not entirely normal.
It is as if Stalin thought that broadcasting the construction of the White Sea Canal by gulag laborers would inspire his countrymen.
