SPORTS RIGHTS CATALOGUE 2019–2020 OCTOBER 2019 ABOUT US Eurovision Sport is a division of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the world’s foremost alliance of public service media. The EBU represents 117 Member broadcast organizations in 56 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and has an additional 34 Associates in Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas. We negotiate global sport content on behalf of EBU Members and stakeholders. We manage the media rights for 18 different sports, handling more than 30 different contracts every year. This represents over 700 competition days, or 28,000+ hours of programming. We are committed to sport and to all the wider benefits it brings to individuals, communities and society and we believe sport is for everyone. We connect people to sport and sport to the people. The Eurovision Sport Sales team handles the commercialization of all sports rights not acquired by EBU Members in the acquisition process. Working with an extensive network of broadcast partners in territories across Europe and Worldwide, including China, USA, Japan and Korea, the team specializes in the sale of federations’ content across all platforms. We have extensive experience in identifying and developing new broadcast markets for sports and have a proven record in supporting the worldwide growth of sports and generating new audiences. Our in-depth knowledge of the global broadcast market enables us to innovatively packaged sports content for international audiences is tailored to individual broadcaster’s needs, from live action to non-live content such as highlights, clips, athlete interviews and social media content. We also work with broadcasters to produce local language commentary. For more information and to discuss your needs please contact: Angélique Ernoul Sanja Laban Bogosavljev Sylvain Bonnard T +41 22 717 29 48 T +41 22 717 2833 T +41 22 717 29 38 M +41 79 554 74 36 M +41 79 617 46 58 M +41 79 787 20 55 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Learn more about Eurovision Sport at www.ebu.ch/eurovision-sport CONTENTS PARALYMPIC GAMES WORLD ATHLETICS 12 ÖSV SKIING 42 UEG GYMNASTICS 52 PARALYMPICS GAMES 56 EA ATHLETICS 14 SWISS SKI SKIING 44 EUROPEAN FIS SKI FLYING 46 CHAMPIONSHIPS IBU BIATHLON 48 MULTI-SPORT 16 FINA SWIMMING 18 LEN SWIMMING 26 UCI CYCLING 28 UCI WORLD TOUR CYCLING 32 UEC CYCLING 36 FISA ROWING 38 6 HIGHLIGHT EVENTS OCT NOV DEC UCI UCI LEN CYCLING CYCLING SWIMMING SEP 2019–JAN 2020 6–10 NOV 4–8 DEC Cyclo-Cross World Cups Urban Cycling World Championships European Short Course (9 events in various locations) (Chengdu, China) Championships (Glasgow, United Kingdom) UEC NOV 2019–JAN 2020 CYCLING Track World Cups EA (6 events in various locations) ATHLETICS 16–20 OCT 8 DEC Track European Championships UEC (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands) European Cross-Country CYCLING Championships (Lisbon, Portugal) ÖSV 10 NOV SKIING Cyclo-Cross European Championships SWISS SKI (Silvelle, Italy) 26–27 OCT SKIING Alpine (M/W) 14–15 DEC (Sölden, Austria) ÖSV SKIING Alpine Women (SG+PSL) (St. Moritz, Switzerland) 23 NOV 2019 Freestyle Slopestyle (M/W) 14–15 DEC (Stubai, Austria) Cross-Country (Sprint M/W+10km W, 15km M) (Davos, Switzerland) IBU BIATHLON DEC 2019–MAR 2020 IBU World Cups (9 events in various locations) 7 HIGHLIGHT EVENTS JAN FEB MAR APR SWISS SKI IBU FISA SKIING BIATHLON WORLD ATHLETICS ROWING 11–12 JAN 13–23 FEB 13–15 MAR 27–29 APR Alpine (GS+Sl) Biathlon World Championships World Athletics Indoor Championships Rowing Olympic Qualifications (Adelboden, Switzerland) (Antholz-Anterselva, Italy) (Nanjing, China) (Varese, Italy) 17–19 JAN UCI TOUR OF FLANDERS Alpine (AC+DH+SL) CYCLING FIS CYCLING (Wengen, Switzerland) SKI FLYING 1–2 FEB 5 APR 17–18 JAN Cyclo-Cross World Championships 20–22 MAR Tour of Flanders Snowboard (Slopestyle+Halfpipe) (Dubendorf, Switzerland) Ski Flying World Championships (Belgium) (Laax, Switzerland) (Planica, Slovenia) 26 FEB–1 MAR AMSTEL GOLD RACE LEN Track World Championships CYCLING SWIMMING (Berlin, Germany) 19 APR 12–26 JAN SWISS SKI Amstel Gold Race European Water Polo Championships SKIING (Maastricht, The Netherlands) (Budapest, Hungary) 22–23 FEB ÖSV Alpine (DH+AC) UEG SKIING (Crans-Montana, Switzerland) GYMNASTICS 24–26 JAN 30 APR–3 MAY Alpine Men (GS+DH+SL) Artistic Team Gymnastics European (Kitzbühel, Austria) Championships (Paris, France) 28 JAN Alpine Men (SL) (Schladming, Austria) 8 JUL MAY JUN SEP AUG LEN LEN UCI WORLD TOUR IPC SWIMMING SWIMMING CYCLING PARALYMPICS 11–24 MAY 5–7 JUNE 25 JULY 25 AUG–6 SEPT European Aquatics Championships Water Polo Champions League F8 Clásica de San Sebastian Paralympic Games (Budapest, Hungary) (Genova, Italy) (Spain) (Tokyo, Japan) UCI FISA 16 AUG CYCLING ROWING Hamburg Cyclassics UCI (Germany) CYCLING 26–31 MAY 5–7 JUNE BMX World Championships European Rowing Championships 5–6 SEPT (United States of America) (Poznan, Poland) Mountain Bike World Championships EA (Downhill) ATHLETICS UEG UCI (Leogang, Austria) GYMNASTICS CYCLING 25–30 AUGUST European Athletics Championships 20–27 SEPT 21–24 MAY 25–28 JUNE (Paris, France) Road World Championships Rhythmic Gymnastics European Mountain Bike World Championships (Aigle, Switzerland) Championships (Cross-Country) iBU (Kiev, Ukraine) (Germany) BIATHLON 28–31 MAY 20–23 AUGUST Artistic Team Gymnastics European Biathlon Summer World Championships Championships (Kontiolahti, Finland) (Baku, Azerbaijan) 9 SUMMER SPORTS 10 11 WORLD ATHLETICS In August 2017, Eurovision Sport has renewed its multi-year contract with World Athletics (formerly the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)) for six years to cover the 2018-2023 period. The partnership covers three editions of the World Championships (2019, 2021 and 2023), the World Indoor Championships (2018, 2020 and 2022) and more than a dozen other competitions in the World Athletics Series. Eurovision Sport teamed up with ESPN Media Distribution to represent the media rights to the World Athletics Series events across Europe and Africa, bringing a unique, combined ability to maximize the profile of athletics and increase access to the sport’s top global competitions to hundreds of millions of fans across the 2 continents. Following the innovation and excitement experienced at the recent World Championships in Doha (Qatar), Eurovision Sport is looking forward to building on this success for the exciting events taking place already starting in March 2020 with the World Indoor Championships Nanjing (China). 12 NEXT EVENTS EVENTS IN 2020 EVENTS IN 2022 • World Athletics Indoor Championships • World Athletics Indoor Championships 13–15 March 2020, Nanjing, China March 2022, location TBA • World Athletics Half Marathon • World Athletics Half Marathon Championships Championships 29 March 2020, Gdynia, Poland 20 March 2022, location TBA • World Athletics Race Walking Team • World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships Championships 2–3 May 2020, Minsk, Belarus May 2022, location TBA • World Athletics U20 Championships • World Athletics U20 Championships 7–12 July 2020, Nairobi, Kenya 10 July 2022, location TBA • World Athletics Continental EVENTS IN 2021 Championships • World Athletics Cross Country September 2022, location TBA Championships 20 March 2021, Bathurst, Australia EVENTS IN 2023 • World Athletics Relays • World Athletics Cross Country 1–2 May 2021, Chorzów, Poland Championships • World Athletics Championships 30 March 2023, location TBA 6–15 August 2021, Eugene, United States of • World Athletics Relays America May 2023, location TBA • World Athletics Championships 26 August–3 September 2023, Budapest, Hungary TERRITORIES: THESE RIGHTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR EUROPE. 13 EA ATHLETICS Eurovision Sport and European Athletics announced the long-term renewal of their worldwide media rights contract in August 2018. This extension takes the partnership, which began in 1981, through to the end of 2027. Athletics continues to be hugely popular with audiences, offering something for every sports fan. The agreement covers the worldwide television and radio rights for European Athletics’ major events from 2020 to 2023 and from 2024 to 2027. This includes the Paris 2020 European Athletics Championships and the subsequent flagship championships of European Athletics in 2022, 2024 and 2026. The 2022 and 2026 European Athletics Championships will be part of a multi-sport championships. Other events covered by the agreement are the European Athletics Indoor Championships, including the 2021 edition in Torun, Poland, plus the biennial European Athletics Team Championships (Super League and 1st League), the annual European Cross- Country Championships and the European Athletics U23, U20 and U18 Championships (U18 Championships in Rieti, Italy, in 2020). The renewal also includes services provided by Eurovision Services (ES) the business arm of the EBU. ES will act as a Host Broadcaster for key events, which include the European Athletics Championships from Paris 2020, through to 2026. The events will be distributed to rights-holding broadcasters over the Eurovision Global Network. 14 NEXT EVENTS EVENTS IN 2019 EVENTS IN 2022 • European Cross Country Championships • European Athletics U18 Championships 8 December 2019, Lisbon, Portugal 14–17 July 2022, location TBA • European Athletics Championships EVENTS IN 2020 August 2022, location TBA • European Athletics U18 Championships • European Cross Country Championships 16–19 July 2020, Rieti, Italy 11 December 2022, location TBA • European Athletics Championships 25–30 August 2020,