07-06-2023, 02:51 PM
In 2018, Discovery won the rights globally outside North America (and similar to their Olympics deal they would pick up the rights as previous deals would expire). In June last year, what is now WBD agreed a "multi-year agreement" for Sky to sublet the rights in the UK and Ireland to continue broadcasting all of the tour.
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In 2018, it appeared Discovery was going to go big on golf, launching the previously mentioned GOLFTV service and taking the European Tour and major rights in many territories. That ambition has seemed to have died, with deals like the one with Sky in the UK and the renogation of the agreement with the PGA Tour, handing the rights for "Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and those areas in Europe and Latin America not covered by discovery+ and Eurosport" in January this year. This appears to be partly down to budget restarint post-merger and GOLFTV not being the success it was hoped to be.
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In 2018, it appeared Discovery was going to go big on golf, launching the previously mentioned GOLFTV service and taking the European Tour and major rights in many territories. That ambition has seemed to have died, with deals like the one with Sky in the UK and the renogation of the agreement with the PGA Tour, handing the rights for "Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and those areas in Europe and Latin America not covered by discovery+ and Eurosport" in January this year. This appears to be partly down to budget restarint post-merger and GOLFTV not being the success it was hoped to be.
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golf.com