{"id":934909,"date":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:16:11","slug":"tour-de-france-stays-behind-paywall-in-uk-until-at-least-2033","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934909\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France stays behind paywall in UK until at least 2033"},"content":{"rendered":"

TNT Sports and Eurosport will continue to show the Tour de France, <\/a>as well as all other ASO races. They have extended their broadcast deal with the European Broadcast Union until at least 2032. Tour de France will remain unavailable on free-to-air TV in the UK\u00a0<\/p>\n

TNT sports announced two years ago that they had negotiated exclusive rights to stream the Tour de France. This meant that for the first time in 25 years, there was no free-view coverage on UK TV. ITV began coverage of the race in 2001.<\/p>\n

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\"vos-koch-ferrand-prevot\"\/<\/p>\n

Paris Roubaix is among the races covered by TNT<\/p>\n

Races in the deal for TNT include Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge and Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge Femmes, both editons of Paris-Roubaix, both editions of La Vuelta Espa\u00f1a, both editions of the Tour de France, and Paris-Nice.<\/p>\n

Trojan Paillot, SVP, Sports Rights Acquisitions and Syndication at Eurosport and TNT Sports, said<\/a>: \u201dIt is a privilege to act as the custodian of the biggest events in cycling including the Tour de France and La Vuelta and we welcome the opportunity to continue working in partnership with the EBU and ASO to showcase the very best of our sport.”Highlights programme on Channel 5 offers UK viewers something<\/p>\n

UK Channel 5 was able to show highlight programmes from all Grand Tours this year, which will remain the case until 2028 for the Tour and Vuelta, and 2029 for the Giro.<\/p>\n

Read more below the photo<\/p>\n

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The Vuelta is included in the deal<\/p>\n

Live coverage of the Grand D\u00e9parts from the 2027 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes will be available on channel 5, as they take place in the UK.<\/p>\n

Grand D\u00e9parts aim to bring ‘wide audience’<\/p>\n

The 2027 Grand D\u00e9parts will take place across the UK, in places including Sheffield, Cardiff, and Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Paul Bush OBE, the managing director of the Grand D\u00e9part GB said<\/a>, “We want to bring the 2027 Grands D\u00e9parts to as wide an audience as possible, so it is fantastic news that fans can look forward to following this year\u2019s edition with free-to-air coverage.\u201dApart from that, it is an exclusive audience who can afford to watch cycling live on TNT, as monthly subscriptions cost \u00a330.99 a month<\/a>.TNT announce new in-app features for subscribers\u00a0<\/p>\n

TNT announced an ‘innovative in-app feature’ including the Race Centre Multiview, with four live camera feeds alongside graphics, data and stats.<\/p>\n

Trojan Paillot said, “Over four decades, we have built a proven record.”<\/p>\n

“Our commitment to innovation, passion for the sport, and unmatched scale makes us the perfect partner to continue advancing cycling coverage for many years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

TNT provides coverage of more than 300 days of live racing each season including every race on the men\u2019s and women\u2019s World Tour, the Grand Tours, the Classics and a wide range of other disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TNT Sports and Eurosport will continue to show the Tour de France, as well as all other ASO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,301239,85],"class_list":["post-934909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-latest-cycling-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}