Eurosport
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Sports broadcasting |
| Founded | 5 February 1989 |
| Founder | Peter Matthew Hutton |
| Headquarters | Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris, France |
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Key people
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Peter Matthew Hutton, CEO/ PDG |
| Owner | Discovery Communications |
| Website | www |
Eurosport is a pan-European television sports network, owned and operated by Discovery Communications. Discovery took a 20% minority interest share in December 2012, and became the majority shareholder in the Eurosport venture with TF1 in January 2014, taking a 51% share of the company. On 22 July 2015 Discovery agreed to acquire TF1's remaining 49% stake in the venture.
Eurosport owns a wide range of rights across many sports but generally does not bid for premium priced rights such as those to major football leagues. However, in 2015 it was awarded rights to broadcast the Olympic Games from 2018 for most of Europe and 2022 for the UK and France in a deal worth €1.3 billion (£922 million). It transmits much of the same footage across many markets, using unseen commentators rather than on-screen presenters so that the same visual feed may be broadcast in multiple languages while holding down production costs.
Eurosport has also expanded its deal with The All England Club to show all the Wimbledon matches live in 16 additional countries. It is a 3-year deal that includes exclusive TV and digital rights. This expands their tennis portfolio to show all four Grand Slams.
The network of channels is available in 54 countries, in 20 different languages, providing viewers with European and international sporting events. Eurosport first launched on European satellites on 5 February 1989.
In February 2017, Discovery Communications launched the channel in India, branded as DSPORT. The channel was made available on various platforms in both SD and HD feeds.
Eurosport provides viewers with European and international sporting events. This includes several football competitions:
Other sports events include the Paris Dakar Rally, Monte Carlo Rally, athletics events such as World Athletics Championships and the European Athletics Championships, cycling events such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia (except France) and the Vuelta a España, boxing events such as Premier Boxing Champions, kickboxing events such as SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship, tennis events including the French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon (only for select territories), the US Open and the International Premier Tennis League (except Italy, UK and Ireland), World Championship Snooker, ICC World Twenty20, ICC Cricket World Cup, ICC Champions Trophy, Sudirman Cup, All England Open Badminton Championships, Australian Football League, basketball events such as Eurocup, Euroleague (only for Greece) and Olympiakos Piraeus home matches in the Greek Basket League (only for Poland), PGA Tour (only for the Italian Peninsula), winter sports, and youth sports like skating and surfing.
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