Eurosport

Golf

Media group Discovery has opted to showcase live and highlights coverage of golf’s PGA Tour on its Eurosport channels in 36 European and Central Asian markets in 2021.
Football

Christian Seifert, the chief executive of the German Football League, has said that broadcast rights fee money from Discovery is being paid after a “comprehensive” victory against the international med…
Multi-sport

Adding Eurosport’s content to a bundle of Discovery channels is the key to helping Discovery Communications build market share for its new subscription streaming platform discovery+ in an increasingly competitive OTT landscape, according to Andrew Georgiou, the president of Eurosport’s global sports rights and sports marketing solutions.
Multi-sport

Discovery, the owner of pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport, has today (Wednesday) unveiled its new global OTT streaming service, which will be called discovery+ and will marry sports content with…
Motorsport

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has teamed up with Ford to launch ‘Bring on Tomorrow’, a new digital content series that will investigate future innovations in motorsport as part of a wider mar…
Multi-sport

The Discovery-owned broadcaster Eurosport is to make 59 redundancies at its Paris headquarters as the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the media sector continues to take hold
Chess

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a deal with Play Magnus Group, the digital chess company founded by current world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, for the pan-European and Asian rights…
Ice Skating

International sports broadcaster Eurosport has picked up rights across Europe to a host of International Skating Union events in a new three-season deal with the Infront agency
Motorcycling

International broadcaster Eurosport has renewed its media rights to the FIM Motocross World Championship until 2022
Motorcycling

The Eurosport Events arm of international sports broadcaster Eurosport has agreed a 10-year deal to become the global promoter of all speedway events organised by the International Motorcycling Federation…
Cycling

Domestic viewing figures for the Tour de France remained strong on both France Télévisions, the public-service broadcaster, and Eurosport, the Discovery-owned sports broadcaster, despite the shifting o…
Handball

Pan-European broadcaster Eurosport is close to finalising an agreement in France for rights to handball’s EHF Champions League from the 2020-21 season.
Multi-sport

Laurent Prud’homme, head of Eurosport France and previously senior vice-president of rights acquisitions and syndication at Eurosport, is leaving his position amid a raft of departures across Europe u…
Multi-sport

Discovery Networks Norway, an arm of the international broadcast group that owns Eurosport, has taken legal action over the move by the Norwegian state to ban the advertising of foreign betting companies…
Basketball

Discovery-owned pan-European sports broadcaster Eurosport has renewed its pay-television rights to the Lega Basket Serie A for a further two seasons
Multi-sport

A dramatic fall in advertising caused by the Covid-19 pandemic led to a 23-per-cent drop in second-quarter revenues at the international division of Discovery, the US-based media group that owns pan-European…
Multi-sport

Telecoms operator Vodafone has directly incorporated Eurosport Player, the OTT streaming service of the Discovery-owned sports broadcaster Eurosport, into its broadcast offering in Spain
Tennis

Eurosport has agreed media-rights deals for two European tennis tournaments, bett1ACES in Berlin on July 13-19, and THIEMs7, which got underway in Kitzbühel yesterday and runs until July 11.