European Free-To-Air Broadcasters To Show Inaugural European Championships

All of Europe's major free-to-air broadcasters will televise the inaugural European Championships in '18. The European Broadcasting Union, which holds the broadcast rights on all platforms, has confirmed coverage across the top five markets, BBC in the U.K., ARD/ZDF in Germany, France Télévisions in France, RAI in Italy and TVE in Spain. These countries represent a major part of the potential TV audience of 1.03 billion for the event which will bring together the existing championships of some of the continent's biggest sports for the first time and will be co-hosted by Glasgow and Berlin. Agreements to broadcast the new multi-sport event on free-to-air have also been concluded across Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Belgium and others. The existing European Championships of athletics, aquatics, cycling, gymnastics, rowing and triathlon will be brought together for the first time, and a new Golf Team Championships will also be introduced onto the European stage (European Athletics).