Velux 5 Oceans on TV

Channel 4 to transmit images of solo round the world race in the UK

Clipper Ventures have today announced that the following broadcasters have signed up to cover the Velux 5 Oceans, departing Bilbao, Spain this Sunday, 22 October:

Australia - Fox Sports
Armenia – Shant TV
Brazil - Band Sports and ESPN Brazil
Belguim – BETV
Croatia - HRT and RTL
France – Canal Plus
Finland – MTV3
Hungary – MTV
Italy – The Sailing Channel
Ireland - Setanta Sport
Japan - Gaora Sports and Fuji TV
Malaysia – Astro Channel
Macedonia – Sport 4
New Zealand – TVNZ
Norway – Sport N
Poland – Sport Klub
Singapore – Starhub
Spain – ETB 1 and 2
South Africa – MNET Supersport
Ukraine – Channel Sports 1
United States – Canal Vasco, The Weather Channel
United Kingdom - Channel 4, Sky Sports and Setanta Sport
Venezuela – Meridiano Televisión
Middle East & Asia - Ten Sports
Scandinavia & Baltic States – Viasat Sport 1 & 3
Europe – ETB SAT, Sailing Channel
South America – Canal Vasco

Broadcasters will be showing a blend of programming including the live race start, regular news releases, a 12 part highlights series and the official Velux 5 Oceans film. Significant broadband coverage is also planned from a number of partners to support their distribution and also utilise the rich and varied content available.

Host broadcast and production services for the race are being provided by APP Broadcast, with support from regional Spanish broadcaster ETB who will be showing the race start live, during a two hour programme broadcast exclusively on ETB 1 within the Basque region on Sunday.

ETB have also committed to broadcasting the 12 part highlights series, regular news releases and the official Velux 5 Oceans film across all of their channels. These include ETB 2 available in Spain, ETB SAT available throughout Europe and Canal Vasco, their North and South American Spanish language service. 

Morgan Chenneour, CEO of Global Sportnet, Clipper Ventures’ exclusive sponsorship and media agent for the race, commented: “We are very pleased, but not at all surprised, with the media interest and coverage committed for the race thus far.  With further deals in the pipeline, we should comfortably reach our ambitious media targets which we originally outlined with the race’s stakeholders.”