Tour de France 2025: France T l visions on the host broadcast for this year's gruelling road race through the French countryside By Heather McLean
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 - 10:16
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The Tour de France ends on Sunday 27 July while the Tour de France Femmes begins on Saturday 26 July [Credit: Getty images]
France T l visions' production manager for the Tour de France, Deborah Larrieu, is nearing the end of this year's gruelling edition of what is the most high profile, annual road cycling race globally.
SVG Europe caught up with her when she had a short break from the live action to find out a little bit more about France T l visions' history, goals and challenges for the Tour de France 2025.
How long has it taken you to plan for the Tour? The logistics must be quite complex. What has been your process to get to the starting line?
It takes all year, which means we start working on next year's Tour even during the current race. It intensifies at the end of October when we know the route. We start the site surveys and study particularities of the stages (for some of them the TV compounds are split in two or even three parts.)
With the director, we study the camera plans of each finish line. We also start doing research for the scenery castles, etc and start thinking of the helicopters' flight strategy.
How long have you been the host broadcaster for the Tour de France?
France T l visions (or, say, the state-owned TV broadcaster) has always been the host broadcaster for the Tour de France, that is as far back as 1948. The production has obviously evolved an awful lot over that time.
How have you pushed your production of the Tour from 2024 to 2025, editorially and technically?
We have tried to take advantage of a few technical improvements to save money, such as 5G instead of RF at the finish line, and both post production and archive management done from our headquarters instead of onsite.
This year we have also included more stings shootings of interesting sites with drones which we think is of interest to all broadcasters since the Tour de France is not only about cycling [but also about showcasing France as a destination].
What are your editorial goals for the 2025 Tour? What do you want to get across to fans at home? Has this changed since 2024?
We want the public connoisseurs as well as uninitiated viewers to have a better understanding of the race.
The director, who is already very experienced in the cycling field, is helped by specialists who react extremely quickly whenever anything happens.
At the same time we keep improving the cultural and landscape discovery aspects for those who are more interested in visiting France.
What are the main challenges for you in producing the Tour, and how are you overcoming these?
Moving about 200 people every day is always a challenge, in terms of accommodation and travelling.
We also make sure to have the best and most experienced crew in their field by booking them very much in advance.
And we also have to adapt to weather conditions, from heat which makes it hard to cool our equipment, to heavy rain and storms which endanger transmissions.
How long have you worked with EMG France, or as it is now known, Gravity Media, as the technical services provider for the Tour?
We have always worked with EMG or their predecessors (EMG, Euromedia, SFP) for the RF part (helicopters and motorcycles). They have consistently proved to offer the best solutions and reliability to our tenders.
Was there anything specific that you wanted from EMG for the 2025 Tour? What and why?
Regarding the sound we have specifically asked them to improve the capture of the atmosphere, both the public and the racers. The intercoms have also improved a lot.
Key crew members on the Tour de France 2025 from and for France T l visions:
Deborah Larrieu - Production manager
Anthony Forestier - Director
Josselin Riou - Race expert
Bernard Chaudot - Helicopter strategy expert
Franck Pelletier - Chief of slow motion
Laurent Maheo - Chief of sound
The Tour de France ends on Sunday 27 July 2025, while the Tour de France Femmes begins on Saturday 26 July
Read more:
New classic: EMG / Gravity Media France on overlapping schedules and athlete accessibility on the Tour de France Femmes
Cherry on the cake: Inside the technical production of the Tour de France 2025 with EMG / Gravity Media
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Tour de France 2025: France T l visions on the host broadcast for this year's gruelling road race through the French countryside By Heather McLean 
