Motorbike racing sequence MotoGP has introduced a brand new US broadcast partnership with the TNT Sports activities community to cowl its 2024 season.
TNT Sports activities, owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), will nationally broadcast each dash and race occasion of the 2024 MotoGP World Championship throughout its vary of TV networks and digital platforms.
TNT’s major channel and the truTV community will host the sequence on linear TV, and the B/R Sports activities add-on to OTT service Max (previously HBO Max) will home MotoGP on streaming within the US.
The 2024 MotoGP season will characteristic a report 22 races, and the TNT Sports activities broadcast might be inaugurated on the primary grand prix of the season, on Sunday (March 10) in Qatar.
All three days of every grand prix, together with the qualifying classes and the accompanying Moto2 and Moto3 races can even be streamed on Max as a part of the deal.
Final 12 months, the MotoGP season rights have been held by media big NBCUniversal, a rival of WBD, however reportedly expired earlier in 2023.
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The 2023 MotoGP races have been aired totally free on a delayed foundation on the free-to-air NBC channel, on the pay-TV CNBC channel, with solely the Americas spherical proven reside by the broadcaster.
The NBCUniversal broadcast deal additionally didn’t characteristic any of the pre-race apply or qualifying classes as the brand new deal does, indicating the step up in protection of the brand new deal.
Within the UK, WBD’s European arm of TNT Sports activities, distinct from the US model of the identical title, additionally holds the rights to the 2024 MotoGP season.
The announcement of a brand new US broadcaster for the sequence comes amid persistent stories that Bridgepoint, the UK-based non-public fairness agency and largest shareholder in MotoGP mother or father firm Dorna Sports activities, is in superior talks to promote the sequence.
Sky Information, the UK media outlet, has reported that Bridgepoint – which purchased its curiosity in Dorna from CVC Capital Companions in 2006 – has put a valuation of as much as €4 billion (£3.4 billion) on the sequence.
Bridgepoint owns 40% of MotoGP, with Dorna and the Canada Pension Plan Funding Board (CPPIB) holding smaller stakes. CPPIB purchased its holding in 2012.
Sky has additionally claimed that Liberty Media, which already owns the enduring Method 1 motor racing sequence, is likely one of the frontrunners to take management of MotoGP, and that the method might probably be concluded inside weeks. An acquisition by Liberty would put that group in a particularly commanding place on this planet of motorsport.
