Bloomberg Secures Global TV Rights To Clipper Round The World Yacht Race

Bloomberg Television "acquired the rights to sports news and long-form programming" of the world’s longest ocean race, the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, according to CLIPPER VENTURES. Season two of the series "Race of Their Lives" aired over the weekend and comprises seven one-hour shows with an exclusive "access-all-areas" pass to the 10th edition of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. The event was established in '96 and sees hundreds of teams of "Corinthian" competitors take part in an ocean race around the planet at more than 40,000 nautical miles. It "takes almost a year to complete a series of 14 races between six continents." The first episode of the second series of "Race of Their Lives" aired on Bloomberg Television on Saturday and Sunday across U.K., Europe, the Middle East and Africa. U.K.-based 1080 Media TV "has been retained for a second season to produce and distribute the global long-form official TV series, live feeds, news and social media packages" (CLIPPER VENTURES, 12/18).