Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe (WBD) has announced that it will cover 600 winter sports races live and deliver 1,100 hours of coverage across 11 sports covered by four federations this winter.
The company runs discovery+ and also owns Eurosport, which is now in its 35th year of providing comprehensive coverage.
Viewers in the UK and Ireland can watch winter sports throughout the season on television on Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 (Sky channels 412 and 413, and Virgin Media channels 521 and 522).
For more comprehensive coverage, discovery+ is the streaming home of Eurosport in the UK and provides uninterrupted streaming of every major winter sports event as part of its Standard package for £59.99 a year or £6.99 a month. Eurosport and discovery+ are accessible through all smart TVs, Sky, Virgin and Amazon.
Coverage starts this weekend with the opening World Cup Alpine races of 23-24 on the glacier at Solden in Austria.
WBD has bolstered its panel of expert with a team that together have more than 100 World Cup wins between them and include an expanded role for Britain's Dave Ryding.
New to the team is former French racer Johan Clarey who became the oldest ever Olympic alpine skiing medallist at last year's Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022.
Clarey will provide punditry and analysis during selected races and features as part of WBD's team alongside fellow World Cup icons throughout the season.
"By combining our huge portfolio of World Cup rights across the widest range of disciplines with our winter sports expertise, passion for storytelling and commitment to content creation, this season is sure to captivate millions of fans across Europe and Asia and inspire the next generation of winter sports stars," commented Scott Young, SVP Content and Production at Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe.
For the 2023-2024 season, WBD Sports has produced a new marketing campaign titled 'Winter Sports Take Over' which highlights the sheer volume of exhilarating action throughout the season on Eurosport and discovery+. The campaign launches on 8 November ahead of the weekend's Alpine Speed Opening in the shadow of the Matterhorn – the first ever FIS World Cup race to cross a national border.
Last year the company delivered more than one billion streaming minutes from Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 to 156 million fans across Europe with viewers watching an average of 24% more content than PyeongChang 2018.
Key dates in the 2023-2024 winter sports calendar
• FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup: 20 October 2023 – 24 March 2024
• FIS Park & Pipe Snowboard World Cup: 21 October 2023 – 23 March 2024
• FIS Alpine Ski World Cup: 28 October 2023 – 24 March 2024
• ISU Speed Skating World Cup: 10 November 2023 – 4 February 2024
• FIS Cross-Country World Cup: 24 November 2023 – 17 March 2024
• FIS Ski Jumping World Cup: 24 November 2023 – 24 March 2024
• IBU Biathlon World Cup: 25 November 2023 – 17 March 2024
• FIS Alpine Snowboard World Cup: 14 December 2023 – 17 March 2024
• FIS Snowboard Cross World Cup: 2 December 2023 – 24 March 2024
• FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboarding World Cup: 2 December 2023 – 24 March 2024
• IBU Biathlon World Championships: 5 February – 18 February 2024
• ISU Figure Skating World Championships: 18-24 March 2024
• World Curling Federation World Championships: 26 March – 7 April 2024