Warner Bros. Discovery Sports' Scott Young on why the broadcaster is the globe's home of cycling By Heather McLean
Thursday, March 30, 2023 - 17:08
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Warner Bros. Discovery Sports has launched its season of cycling with sports fans promised a bumper year of world-class two-wheeled action from all four corners of the globe.
Scott Young, SVP content and production at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe, told SVG Europe about the strategy for the broadcaster's 2023 cycling coverage. Our strategy behind cycling is the same as all sport across our platforms: bring our fans closer to the action and get to know the athletes and teams. Live sport is a magnetic form of entertainment. It connects with fans as they celebrate the success and challenges of their team, athlete and sport.
Live is paired with engaging, packaged content that supports the live story. This is where we go behind the scenes, beyond the result, and give fans the ability to enjoy the sport they love. We strive to innovate in every way possible. Not just technically but across our on-air team, our content, innovative storytelling tools by embracing artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
He goes on: We are the home of cycling, and all forms of cycling are part of Eurosport's DNA. We are fans of the sport, and love being connected to the athletes, driving innovation, and focusing on the stories behind the competition.
Gender balance is key not only key to serving all fans but being a true partner in the sport. We have virtually all of the key road cycling events from the UCI Women's World Tour. The UCI Track Champions League is gender equal. That is the target for Mountain Biking. This is a commitment to the sport, the athletes and fans
As to where Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe is taking cycling beyond 2023, he says, bigger, better, more, and new .
Our commitment to cycling is best demonstrated through our internal events business, Discovery Sports Events. We are the promoter, producer, broadcaster and global distributor of the UCI Track Champions League, now in its third year, and the inaugural UCI Mountain Bike World Series. This thrilling form of cycling is going through an editorial and technical lift that I'm confident will resonate with existing fans and new fans.
We love creating content and telling the story behind the competition. In many cases we take a host feed of the event, allowing us to dedicate our team to create pre and post content, speak to the competitors, and enhance the live feed with additional content. We have reporters on site, reporters on chase bikes on a live stage, plus a series of local market programmes focused on cycling. This ensures a world feed has a very local connection.
In 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery's coverage across discovery , GCN , Eurosport and Eurosport App will feature at least: 300 days of cycling, including every key race from the UCI World Tour; 210 cycling events live; 4,000 hours of cycling coverage, including replays; 1,000 hours of live coverage, including digital platforms; over 500 locally produced shows throughout 2023; comprehensive coverage of the UCI Women's World Tour.
Warner Bros. Discovery will once again broadcast every stage of each of the Grand Tours - Giro d'Italia (6-28 May), Tour de France (1-23 July) and La Vuelta (26 August-17 September) as well as each of the Monument Classics and every one-day Classic race on the UCI World Tour calendar. In 2023, for the first time, viewers will enjoy deeper analysis of each stage of the Tour of Flanders (2 April) and Paris-Roubaix (9 April) Classic races with the race hosted from the mixed-reality Cube studio.
Gender equal audience growth
In terms of the company's audience growth aims, on what that audiences is, how it sees this audience growing and how it aims to attract them, Young says: Our audience is as diverse as the various forms of cycling that we broadcast across a season. The Grand Tours brings cycling fans of all ages. The Tour de France is a standout for attracting a once in a year fan' who loves the spectacle of the Tour, but that could be their one event for the season.
Super fans watch nearly everything we produce. The UCI Mountain Bike World Series will bring a younger, possibly more engaged viewer. We spend a lot of time cross-promoting each of the events with a target to migrate a road fan to mountain bike and vice-versa.
We are fans of cycling and our teams across Europe love bringing the best of cycling to sports fans across all our platforms. Big screen and small, men's and women's, on road and off cycling is our DNA
After every race of the UCI Women's World Tour was broadcast on its platforms in 2021 and 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery continues its commitment to gender equality this year with extensive coverage of every major women's road race including the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (23-30 July), the Giro d' Italia Donne (30 June-9 July) as well as next month's one-day Tour of Flanders Women (2 April), Paris-Roubaix Femmes (8 April), La Fleche Wallonne Feminine (19 April) and Liege-Bastogne-Liege Femmes (23 April).
Adds Young: Gender balance is key not only key to serving all fans but being a true partner in the sport. We have virtually all of the key road cycling events from the UCI Women's World Tour. The UCI Track Champions League is gender equal. That is the target for Mountain Biking. This is a commitment to the sport, the athletes and fans.
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Warner Bros. Discovery Sports' Scott Young on why the broadcaster is the globe's home of cycling By Heather McLean 
