Warner Bros. Discovery Sports activities Europe (WBD) introduced their full schedule of worldwide biking protection for 2024, which can embody 300 days of reside motion for street, mountain bike, monitor, BMX and cyclocross disciplines.
The entire portfolio of biking occasions from the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games can be supplied throughout Europe, in addition to the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes in a full lineup of the lads’s and Grand Tour stage races.
For the US viewers, the WBD subscription-based streaming platforms Discovery+ and Max will change into the “residence of biking”, filling a void of race protection that developed when GCN+ and its associated World Biking Community app closed in December final 12 months.
Among the many March street races out there to the US viewers on Max are males’s races Bredene Koksijde Basic, Milan-Sanremo, Chloet-Pays de la Loire, Basic Brugge-De Panne, E3 Saxo Basic and GP Miguel Induráin, whereas ladies’s races embody Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Commune di Cittiglio and Basic Brugge-De Panne.
GCN+, owned by WBD, had supplied 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 supplied subscription entry to different channels akin to Discovery+ and Eurosport to European viewers a number of months in the past, and in March reside biking protection started on Max, previously HBO Max.
“By bringing to life greater than 1,000 reside broadcasts all year long, together with each second of the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 this summer time, by way of 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 vp at WBD Sports activities Europe, overseeing content material, manufacturing and enterprise operations, mentioned in an organization press launch.
“Our dedication to the protection, promotion and commentary of all biking is barely matched by that of the groups and athletes themselves. Moreover, with expansive protection by way of our owned and operated platforms throughout Europe and USA along with our sublicense companions, we are going to make biking accessible for the biggest potential viewers because the season continues to collect momentum.”
With a collection of sub-licence partnerships, WBD will work as a distribution companion for SBS in Australia for the Giro d’Italia and UCI Observe 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 companion with FloSports to stream reside biking racing on FloBikes, to incorporate the Giro d’Italia, Il Lombardia and a choice of ladies’s UCI WorldTour races. FloSports already supplies 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 Street Race champion Adam Blythe.
In Europe, WBD introduced its complete TV protection would come with 4,000 reside hours on Eurosport in 19 languages, in addition to 500 locally-produced reveals 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 advertisements, or $15.99, with out advertisements, 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 Collection begins
- April 21 – Liège-Bastogne-Liège
- April 29-Could 4 – La Vuelta Femenina
- Could 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 Street World Championships
- October 4-6 – UCI Mountain Bike World Collection finale
- October 12 – Il Lombardia
- October 16-20 – UCI Observe World Championships
- Dates TBC – UCI Observe Champions League
