Roland Garros 2025

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@IOWMark wrote:

Same for me.  I already pay Sky over a £100 per month and I don't want to pay TNT Sports another £30.99 per month just to watch Roland Garros (I've no interest in TNT's other sports coverage).  I have  Discovery+  through Sky but TNT Sports is a chargeable upgrade. Any suggestions please?  Thanks.

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Either pay or don't watch.  These are your only choices.

[nolte]

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@IOWMark wrote:

Same for me.  I already pay Sky over a £100 per month and I don't want to pay TNT Sports another £30.99 per month just to watch Roland Garros (I've no interest in TNT's other sports coverage).  I have  Discovery+  through Sky but TNT Sports is a chargeable upgrade. Any suggestions please?  Thanks.

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You could always get Discovery Plus premium sports pack then just cancel it the same month in line with their cancellation policy.

You would only have to pay for it for 2 months, for the French open and austrailian open.

[Kameron]

New TV agreement with Roland Garros just signed. It will stay on TNT until at least 2030

https://media.wbdsports.com/post/warner-bros-discovery-and-the-french-tennis-federation-extend-th

[TimmyBGood]

@Kameron 

Thanks for the tip.

Perhaps not surprising given the decade-long contract WBD secured for US rights last year: clearly the Fédération Française de Tennis is very happy with their ongoing relationship and not remotely bothered by the loss of broadcasting through Eurosport to the UK.

[PaulR28]

I agree that there's a lot of information they need to have at their fingertips, and it's probably a stressful enough job, but., really it's still not great to give dud information, accidentally or deliberately. The devil is in the detail, and TV viewers are very particular about what they want to buy in to, and are not stupid. I had to come to this forum to find out the grim truth about the Roland Garros farce. When I tried to click on the link for "Sky Tennis", it just says "Watch more live tennis than anywhere else": About the most useless piece of sales blather I've ever seen. If they don't care about being hopelessly vague whey they try to pitch their packages, I hope they don't mind me being hopelessly disiillusioned with Sky's opaque attitude to product promotion, and also considering downsizing my massive Sky monthly contribution. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@PaulR28 wrote:

When I tried to click on the link for "Sky Tennis", it just says "Watch more live tennis than anywhere else": About the most useless piece of sales blather I've ever seen. 

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As mentioned above, Sky has a five year contract for exclusive coverage of the ATP and WTA global tours, which over each season adds up to considerably more matches than the four Grand Slams: the press release claims over 4000 of them.  Unfortunately even tennis fans don't always know that the Slams are independent tournaments operating outside the tours, for which television rights are negotiated separately (and for three of the four, extremely expensively) : Sky has the US Open, TNT got France and Australia and the Beeb clings on to Wimbledon for as long as they are able, which in the modern world represents surprisingly wide platform diversity.

[Jenine9]

I couldnt agree more. Extortionate subscription cost.  I also had a Sky Sports subscription but wont be going to TNT on principle. Thanks for ruining Tennis coverage TNT!!

[TimmyBGood]

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@Jenine9 wrote:

Thanks for ruining Tennis coverage TNT!!

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I don't see the slam organisers queuing up to hand their television rights fees back in protest though, or players refusing their winnings....

[ParryHerbert]

Completely agree we only got sky sports for formula one and tennis too Roland Farris we can't watch it - been on phone to sky for hours now everyone saying something different but getting nowhere at all it's disgusting.......

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@ParryHerbert wrote:

Completely agree we only got sky sports for formula one and tennis too Roland Farris we can't watch it - been on phone to sky for hours now everyone saying something different but getting nowhere at all it's disgusting.......

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@ParryHerbert its not Skys fault they don't have the sporting rights to all major sports events so they can only show what they have the rights to unfortunately thats includes Roland Garros

[TimmyBGood]

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@ParryHerbert wrote:

Completely agree we only got sky sports for formula one and tennis too 

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It's really not that complicated.  Sky Tennis has contracts with the ATP and WTA for their tours, and then a separate one with the owners of the US Open because the four Grand Slams are not tour events.  The organisers of the Australian and French Opens chose to accept bids from TNT, and for now Wimbledon remains on the BBC (although only the finals are actually protected in law)

[Lynn110]

OMG 😲 that's not good news!! 

[TimmyBGood]

@Lynn110 

It's not really 'new' though 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofcom_Code_on_Sports_and_Other_Listed_and_Designated_Events 

I'd imagine the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club looks at the home television rights earnings of the other Slams with some degree of jealousy, and these days the BBC almost certainly couldn't out-bid TNT (or Sky) if it ever came down to that...