MattTuck
01-12-2016, 12:22 PM
Somewhat interesting story about a network in another land, that we're all probably pretty familiar with. Link (http://www.wsj.com/articles/discovery-communications-wants-to-be-the-espn-of-europe-1452567094)
Trying googling the title of the article, if that link doesn't work.
Discovery began investing in Eurosport in 2012, taking a minority stake while majority owner Franceç—´ TF1 Group showed them the ropes of running the only sports channel group to span the whole continent. Eurosport reaches 205 million paying subscribers across 91 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to the company, as well as millions more free-to-air viewers in pay-TV averse Germany.
While this unusual scale prompts people like Mr. McEnroe to call Eurosport the ESPN of Europe, in reality, Eurosport carried primarily leftover rights to second-tier sports like cycling, tennis and winter sports, noot to mention snooker, darts and log cutting making it a far cry from the force of nature that is ESPN.
Long live shark week! and Pirated streams of spring classics races!
Trying googling the title of the article, if that link doesn't work.
Discovery began investing in Eurosport in 2012, taking a minority stake while majority owner Franceç—´ TF1 Group showed them the ropes of running the only sports channel group to span the whole continent. Eurosport reaches 205 million paying subscribers across 91 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, according to the company, as well as millions more free-to-air viewers in pay-TV averse Germany.
While this unusual scale prompts people like Mr. McEnroe to call Eurosport the ESPN of Europe, in reality, Eurosport carried primarily leftover rights to second-tier sports like cycling, tennis and winter sports, noot to mention snooker, darts and log cutting making it a far cry from the force of nature that is ESPN.
Long live shark week! and Pirated streams of spring classics races!