Recent Posts tagged with cycling
By Roberto Landini, Italian Correspondent | Wednesday, June 1, 2022 - 14:44
While the Giro d’Italia has traditionally been produced by Italian national broadcaster RAI, this year marked the first event where EMG was in the hot seat, handling everything from editorial management to logistics and more in between. Earlier this year, event organiser RCS Sport chose EMG as its broadcast production partner for all the cycling […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Monday, March 28, 2022 - 15:53
Discovery Sports will bring more women’s cycling to TV viewers than any other broadcaster in the world this year having added new rights in territories outside its Europe-wide offering, including the inaugural and much anticipated Tour de France Femmes. And this increased focus on women’s cycling is no accident. It’s been several years in the […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Monday, March 28, 2022 - 11:33
Discovery Sports senior vice president of content and production Scott Young recently spoke to SVG Europe about the broadcaster’s increasing plans in the world of cycling, which is one of its major sports verticals. This year, Discovery Sports has added Tour de France Femmes and Paris-Roubaix Femmes rights in Asia-Pacific territories exclusively until at least […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 11:33
Discovery Sports’ mixed reality presentation studio the Cube will be used during coverage of the Tour de France for the first time this year as part of an enhanced cycling schedule being provided by the broadcaster that will include a significant focus on women’s cycling. The Cube will allow for analysis and insight on both […]
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By Jo Ruddock | Monday, November 1, 2021 - 17:04
Public broadcaster France TV is set to provide live streamed coverage of the Union Cycliste Internationale’s (UCI’s) new track cycling series. Each round of the UCI Track Champions League will be streamed online in full via the network’s France TV Sports digital platform. In broadcasting the league, France TV augments its existing 200 hours of […]
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By Heather McLean, Editor | Thursday, October 14, 2021 - 13:19
The new Tour de France Femmes has stuck an agreement with Discovery Sports and Eurovision Sport to take the women’s cycling event to the widest audience possible across Europe from 2022. The deal further strengthens Discovery Sports’ growing reputation as the home of cycling, after showing every race on the UCI Women’s World Tour in […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Friday, September 24, 2021 - 10:29
Discovery Sports has expanded its cycling offer for fans by adding the exclusive global Cyclo-cross Superprestige rights to its portfolio of live events. A new long-term deal will bring live and on-demand global coverage of the Cyclo-cross Superprestige series to viewers via Discovery Sports’ leading sport brands Eurosport, GCN+ and discovery+. The eight-race Superprestige season […]
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By Will Strauss, Editor | Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 11:52
Discovery Sports Events and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are to jointly develop immersive on-screen and digital fan-engagement experiences for the new Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Track Champions League series after signing a partnership agreement. The deal sees AWS become Official Cloud, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Provider for Discovery Sports Events and the […]
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By Ken Kerschbaumer, SVG Editorial Director | Wednesday, July 21, 2021 - 17:53
Sunset+Vine has been named the live production, content and media partnerships agency for a new and exciting city centre electric bike grand prix series. The E-Bike Grand Prix (EBK GP) Racing Series is owned and developed by Cube International and will feature pro-cycling teams racing around specially-designed city centre tracks on electric road bikes at […]
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By Jo Ruddock | Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - 13:37
RTL, the largest commercial broadcaster in the Netherlands, is set to offer live coverage of the new UCI Track Champions League cycling series. It joins a host of international broadcast partners that are set to be announced in the lead up to the league’s first round in Mallorca on 6 November. RTL will broadcast every round, […]
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