Tag: Eurosport

LONDON: Discovery Communications has appointed Bernard Ross, who joins from The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), to the newly created role of Eurosport’s chief operating officer and general manager of the Olympic Games.

LONDON: Eurosport will be the exclusive home of the Olympic Games in Germany from 2018 to 2024.

LONDON: Eurosport has partnered with downhill skier Lindsey Vonn on the sports series Chasing History.

LONDON: Eurosport has secured a five-year agreement with the AELTC to show live simulcast coverage in the U.K. of the Wimbledon finals and highlights, making it the only broadcaster in the country to show live coverage of all four Grand Slams.

LONDON: Sky has clinched a new contract for Bundesliga football through to 2021, with an average rights cost per annum of €876 million ($998 million).

LONDON: As part of its ongoing strategy to make the Olympics available across more screens in Europe, Discovery Communications has inked deals with Ireland’s RTÉ and pubcaster Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) for the 2018 and 2020 games.

PARIS: Eurosport, World Snooker and IMG have revealed a ten-year extension of the TV and digital rights to show 18 tournaments of the World Snooker Tour on Eurosport and its on-demand digital service Eurosport Player.