South African viewers can enjoy Day 1 of Royal Ascot on Tuesday on Dstv channel 210.
Royal Ascot may be taking place behind closed doors for the first time in its history, but the world’s greatest flat race meeting will still attract huge global TV audiences with over 120 countries due to tune in.
The traditional 30 races of the Royal Meeting have been supplemented by a further six top quality races to generate even more interest in one of the first major global sporting events to take place in the summer of 2020.
Led by extensive domestic coverage on ITV1 in the UK, coverage will span the globe with pictures also available in the USA, Australia, the Middle East, India, the Caribbean and Europe.
ITV’s coverage will feature 30 races from the Queen Anne Stakes on Tuesday June 16 to the closing Queen Alexandra Stakes on Saturday June 20, live on their main channel.
Sky Sports Racing will broadcast every race live to around 14m homes in the UK and Ireland. Additionally, pictures will be streamed to more than 20 online bookmakers in the UK and Ireland.
Coverage of Royal Ascot also continues on NBC, including Saturday which will be shown on the main NBC Channel (with days one to four on NBC Sports Network). NBC’s coverage will reach almost 80 million homes across the US.
Around 42 million homes in 17 countries in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region will be served by live coverage from Dubai Racing Channel and Yas TV (Abu Dhabi TV).
Globally, coverage of Royal Ascot will have a reach over 124 territories, enhanced through a new distribution partnership with international horseracing media rights agency, HBA Media.
In Europe, major regional broadcasters including RAI (Italy), Match TV (Russia), Movistar (Spain) and Polsat (Poland) will air the event to millions of viewers alongside, S Sport (Turkey), Silknet (Georgia) and Sport Klub (Balkans). Viewers in Israel will again be able to watch the entire Royal Meeting on Charlton.
Australia’s strong affinity with Ascot will continue with Racing.com, the country’s free-to-air horseracing network, broadcasting the full action-packed race schedule.
ESPN will showcase Royal Ascot to its established audience across Latin America.
Meanwhile, 48 countries in Africa will be served by leading broadcaster SuperSport while Caribbean fans will have access via SportsMax.
Asia is covered by Shanghai TV, Beijing TV (China) and Eleven Sports (Taiwan) and others.
Global media powerhouse – Discovery – through its recently launched Eurosport India channel will take the Royal Meeting into 45 million homes in India.
First race is off at 14h15!
