Warner Bros. Discovery will broadcast up to 600 races and 3,500 hours of winter sports action over the next six months on discovery+, Eurosport and Eurosport App.
The winter sports season kicks off with the opening round of the FIS World Cup in Soelden, Austria with a women’s and men’s giant slalom, while the FIS Ski Jumping season starts on November 5 from Wisla, Poland.
February and March are set to be the biggest months on the calendar for winter sports fans watching on Warner Bros. Discovery Sports platforms with the Alpine World Ski Championships taking place in Courchevel Meribel between February 6-19, 2023 followed by the Nordic World Ski Championships; Planica, Slovenia between February 22 and 5 March 5, 2023.
Commenting on the upcoming coverage, 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”.
Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, via Eurosport, first broadcast winter sports events in the year of its formation in 1989, and had record numbers consuming this year’s Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. More than 156 million Europeans visited Warner Bros. Discovery platforms during Beijing 2022 – where it was presented in 50 markets in Europe – with over a billion streaming minutes consumed across discovery+ and Eurosport.
