Sony Footage Community (SPN), the Indian pay-television broadcaster, has prolonged its unique rights for the Roland-Garros French grand slam tennis event throughout the Indian subcontinent.
The deal between SPN and the French Tennis Federation (FFT) governing physique covers each linear and digital rights of the clay-court event via the 2027 version.
SPN will present reside protection of the event by way of its sports activities channel, Sony Sports activities Community, and OTT service SonyLiv throughout India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
SPN’s authentic take care of the FFT, operating from 2022 to 2024, lined India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
Rajesh Kaul, Sony Footage Networks India’s chief income officer, distribution and head – sports activities enterprise, stated: “Our partnership underscores our dedication to bringing world-class tennis motion to followers throughout India and the subcontinent.
“Since we acquired the rights of the event in 2022, the typical yearly viewership on tv (attain) is 41% greater in comparison with the previous three years, and with this renewed partnership, we intention to offer complete protection of this iconic event on each our tv and digital platforms.”
SPN held the rights to the US Open between 2022 and 2024 throughout related territories.
This 12 months’s version, which is able to happen between Could 25 and June 8, will characteristic a file purse of round $63.7 million, a 5.21% improve from final 12 months, with the prize for the lads’s and ladies’s singles winner rising by round $170,000 to $2.9 million.
Home broadcast rights to the event are at present held by public service community France Televisions and streaming heavyweight Amazon Prime Video in a deal operating via 2027.
US protection, in the meantime, is being supplied by media and leisure big Warner Bros. Discovery’s linear TNT, TBS, and truTV networks as a part of a 10-year deal price a reported $650 million.
BeIN Sports activities Asia, an arm of the Qatar-based worldwide pay-TV community, holds the rights to the event throughout Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Philippines, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia via the 2026 version.
