Warner Bros. Discovery Sports activities Europe (WBD) introduced their full schedule of worldwide biking protection for 2024, which is able to embrace 300 days of stay motion for highway, mountain bike, observe, BMX and cyclocross disciplines.
The entire portfolio of biking occasions from the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games is ready to be offered throughout Europe, in addition to the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes.
For the US viewers, the WBD subscription-based streaming platforms Discovery+ and Max will turn out to be the “residence of biking”, filling a void in race protection that developed when GCN+ and its associated World Biking Community app closed in December final yr.
Among the many March highway races obtainable to the US viewers on Max are males’s races Bredene Koksijde Traditional, Milan-San Remo, Chloet-Pays de la Loire, Traditional Brugge-De Panne, E3 Saxo Traditional and GP Miguel Induráin, whereas ladies’s races embrace Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Commune di Cittiglio and Traditional Brugge-De Panne.
GCN+, owned by WBD, had offered all kinds of professional biking race protection in a number of international locations, together with the Tour de France and the Classics. The father or mother firm offered subscription entry to different channels akin to Discovery+ and Eurosport to European viewers a number of months in the past, and in March stay biking protection started on Max, previously HBO Max.
“By bringing to life greater than 1,000 stay broadcasts all year long, together with each second of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 this summer season, via the eyes of probably the most recognisable specialists, and harnessing the most recent digital studio improvements in tandem with immersive on-site protection, we are going to get the center of each race, each rider and each story,” Scott Younger, the group senior vice chairman at WBD Sports activities Europe, overseeing content material, manufacturing and enterprise operations, mentioned in an organization media launch.
“Our dedication to the protection, promotion and commentary of all biking is simply matched by that of the groups and athletes themselves. Moreover, with expansive protection via our owned and operated platforms throughout Europe and USA along with our sublicense companions, we are going to make biking accessible for the biggest doable viewers because the season continues to assemble momentum.”
With a collection of sub-licence partnerships, WBD will work as a distribution associate for SBS in Australia for the Giro d’Italia and UCI Monitor Champions League, and distribute biking protection in Central and LATMA for Claro, in addition to for Zhibo TV in China.
For biking followers in Canada, WBD will associate with FloSports to stream stay biking racing on FloBikes, to incorporate the Giro d’Italia, Il Lombardia and a collection of ladies’s UCI WorldTour races. FloSports already offers protection for the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix, and UCI World Championships.
FloSports mentioned its subscribers would profit from WBD’s English and French race commentary, which incorporates Grand Tour stage winner Robbie McEwen, four-time Tour de France inexperienced jersey winner Sean Kelly and former British Nationwide Highway Race champion Adam Blythe.
In Europe, WBD introduced its complete TV protection would come with 4,000 stay hours on Eurosport in 19 languages, in addition to 500 locally-produced exhibits through the season. There would even be new Eurosport Biking YouTube and Instagram channels.
The US rights to broadcast the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, and different occasions managed by ASO, stay with NBC and its manufacturers NBCUniversal and PeacockTV.
A month-to-month subscription to Max prices $9.99, with adverts, or $15.99, with out adverts, with $99.99 or $149.99 for annual bundles.
Key races broadcast by WBD Sports activities Europe
- April 6-7 Paris Roubaix (ladies’s and males’s)
- April 12 – UCI Mountain Bike World Sequence begins
- April 21 – Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- April 29-Might 4 – La Vuelta Femenina
- Might 4-26 – Giro d’Italia
- June 29-July 21 – Tour de France
- July 7-14 – Giro Donne
- July 27-August 7 – Paris Olympic Video games biking
- August 12-18 – Touro de France Femmes
- August 17-September 8 – La Vuelta a España
- August 26-September 1 – UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
- August 26-September 1 – UCI Highway World Championships
- October 4-6 – UCI Mountain Bike World Sequence finale
- October 12 – Il Lombardia
- October 16-20 – UCI Monitor World Championships
- Dates TBC – UCI Monitor Champions League
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