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Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

Nutkin26 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:41:24 GMT

Does anyone know why eurosport is still available in 50 other countries so if this is the case why is it just the uk that suffers the loss of the channel.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

Mark39 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:43:55 GMT

That's a question for Warner Brothers Discovery, not Sky. It was their decision.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

Daniel0210 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:46:26 GMT

@Nutkin26

The subject was discussed at length in this long thread

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/What-s-On/Closure-of-Eurosport-channels-28-02-25/td-p/4895171

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

MarkGoldsmith — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 10:50:42 GMT

@Nutkin26 wrote:
Does anyone know why eurosport is still available in 50 other countries so if this is the case why is it just the uk that suffers the loss of the channel.

As far as I'm aware as of yet WDB don't have a TNT Sports brand in the majority of those territories which is likely the reason the UK/ROI have been the first to shut down as they already had TNT Sports to move the content over to.

Personally it would motivate surprise me at all if over the next several years WDB attempted to globally consolidate all their sports content under the TNT Sports brand as a premium sports offfering, which is certainly something they could achieve as MAX continues its global rollout and growth.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

nolte — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:04:07 GMT

@MarkGoldsmith wrote:
@Nutkin26 wrote:
Does anyone know why eurosport is still available in 50 other countries so if this is the case why is it just the uk that suffers the loss of the channel.

As far as I'm aware as of yet WDB don't have a TNT Sports brand in the majority of those territories which is likely the reason the UK/ROI have been the first to shut down as they already had TNT Sports to move the content over to.

Personally it would motivate surprise me at all if over the next several years WDB attempted to globally consolidate all their sports content under the TNT Sports brand as a premium sports offfering, which is certainly something they could achieve as MAX continues its global rollout and growth.

Indeed, watching the coverage of Var classic on Discovery plus last week, when the winner was interviewed, one of the ad logos behind him said in french "Eurosport available on Max"

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

TimmyBGood — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:18:43 GMT

@Nutkin26 wrote:

why is it just the uk that suffers the loss of the channel.

As I mentioned in the larger thread, the UK and Ireland does make a nice testbed for WBD to see what uptake on streaming is like before they risk it in a larger European market.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

Mrp1234 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 08:59:47 GMT

I see massive amount of people unhappy about losing the option to watch cycling and motorcycling on Eurosport in sky and looking at cancelling sub are there any deals being offered by Sky? £30 is Crazy as I don't want to be watching football baseball etc. shocking news

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

TimmyBGood — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 10:03:10 GMT

@Mrp1234 wrote:

are there any deals being offered by Sky?

Sky isn't in a position to offer deals if WBD don't facilitate these. There's no graduated level of Discovery+ or TNT subscription with only a subset of the sports content to which they have exclusive rights: it's all or nothing.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

oj01 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:42:31 GMT

WBD obviously feel that more people will subscribe to TNT as a result of this. Coupled with the money they will save through not broadcasting Eurosport any more.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

Timelord2018 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 18:58:18 GMT

@TimmyBGood wrote:
@Mrp1234 wrote:
are there any deals being offered by Sky?
Sky isn't in a position to offer deals if WBD don't facilitate these. There's no graduated level of Discovery+ or TNT subscription with only a subset of the sports content to which they have exclusive rights: it's all or nothing.

And even the Discovery+ basic annual subscription option has now been removed so i suspect the beginning of the end for Discovery+.

Re: Eurosport still available in 50 other countries

SKY1992bf — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:06:50 GMT

@Timelord2018 wrote:
@TimmyBGood wrote:
@Mrp1234 wrote:
are there any deals being offered by Sky?
Sky isn't in a position to offer deals if WBD don't facilitate these. There's no graduated level of Discovery+ or TNT subscription with only a subset of the sports content to which they have exclusive rights: it's all or nothing.
And even the Discovery+ basic annual subscription option has now been removed so i suspect the beginning of the end for Discovery+.

That's inevitable once max launches next year