Up to 3,500 hours of winter sports to be aired between October and April
Warner Bros. Discovery has revealed its broadcast plans for the winter sports season.
Up to 600 races and 3,500 hours of winter sports content will be broadcast across discovery+, Eurosport, and the Eurosport App between October and April. Every major World Cup and World Championships event (exc Switzerland) during the 2022-23 season will be available.
For the broadcaster’s presentations, Martin Schmitt, ski jumping Olympic gold medallist; Tina Maze, alpine skiing, two-time Olympic gold medallist; and Justyna Kowalczyk, cross-country skiing, two-time Olympic gold medallist are on board for punditry.
The winter sports season begins with the opening round of the FIS World Cup in Soelden, Austria with a women’s and men’s giant slalom before the FIS Ski Jumping season starts on 5 November from Wisla, Poland. February and March are major months, with the Alpine World Ski Championships taking place in Courchevel Meribel between 6-19 February 2023 followed by the Nordic World Ski Championships; Planica, Slovenia between 22 February and 5 March 2023.
Scott Young, SVP content and production at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, said: “We have a rich history of telling the stories of winter sports athletes and our heritage of broadcasting the world’s biggest events for more than three decades means we can continue to attract the biggest heroes and former stars of the slopes to help bring these stories to life and deepen engagement with our viewers.
“Building on our biggest ever winter sports season, where we engaged record audiences around every unmissable moment of the Olympic Winter Games and offered the greatest choice of live events of any broadcaster throughout the season, we are looking forward to combining our unrivalled scale, deep winter sports expertise and storytelling ability to unlock the power of skiing, ski jumping and snowboarding and every other major winter discipline for fans across Europe.”
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