There is a very particular situation ready to happen when it comes to television coverage of the Australian Open. In fact, no coverage at all. Yes, because the earthquake caused by the exit of the Discovery channels from Sky has, as is known, removed the Eurosport channels from the satellite platform. For this reason, to date there are two out of four Slams which, barring developments, will not be seen on TV in the strict sense: the Australian Open and Roland Garros.
In recent weeks, however, there has actually been an evolution, and it was linked to the Netflix operation which purchased Warner Bros. Discovery for the sum (if not a record, almost) of 83 billion dollars. An operation which, however, concerns the film and television studios. In other words, the whole block of HBO and HBO Max.
Among all these branches there is no one linked to Eurosportwhich will be part of another block, the one linked to Discovery Global. Moral of the story: Eurosport will continue to broadcast the Slams, but without the support of the possibility of radiating its signal on conventional TV coverage. Only streaming, in short (although it is true that on more than one occasion it is possible to activate the apps that will be discussed shortly even through the small screen, which is not so small anymore).
The possibilities are different. First of all DAZNwhich has decided to expand the offering of the pan-European channel by adding channels 3, 4, 5 and 6 to Eurosport 1 and 2, which will therefore accompany what was already historic on the part of the broadcaster. Until February 1st, and therefore until the final, all DAZN subscribers will have the opportunity to watch Eurosport channels (we are talking about a number which, to date, appears to be around two million). In parallel, too Timvision and Amazon Prime Video will give you the opportunity to have the same type of coverage.
Then there is Discovery+which inherited the services that belonged to Eurosport Player and continued to distribute the streaming of all the Slam courts owned by the broadcaster, with coverage ranging from qualifying to the final. At the same time, the arrival of HBO Max is also imminent, which will be another useful way to follow the events in Melbourne (and Paris).
Then there remains the question of clarity, which has started to move forward again since 2025 after a particular 2024, so to speak. Last year Discovery broadcast the Australian Open and Roland Garros finals live on the Nine, obtaining flattering audience figures. The concrete advantages, from many points of view, of important matches broadcast to a wide audience are now well established, and this is known to both Discovery and Sky. All without touching the folds of the new list of free-to-air events, which has already been the subject of every possible analysis.
