Eurosport Closing in the UK - Folding into TNT

[chrismscotland]

Eurosport disappearing in the UK in February as its folded into the TNT Sports/Discovery+ operation fully; seems the Free to Air stuff that was on Eurosport before like Cycling, Snooker, Winter Sports, Le Mans/WEC is now going to be behind the TNT Paywall at a much higher price rather than the £3.99 it was available for previously (via the website/ app):

Eurosport’s end of an era in Britain casts doubts on future free-to-air coverage

Eurosport 1 and 2 are soon to be merged into TNT Sports, with mixed signals over TNT acquiring the rights to the Six Nations

www.theguardian.com

Taken from Reddit: an email to a current subscriber outlining that the current tier which gets Eurosport only is going:

Upcoming changes to your discovery+ subscription - please read carefully

Hello Mark,

Thank you for being a discovery+ subscriber.

On 28 February 2025, the Eurosport and TNT Sports brands will be brought together, with all sports content available in one single destination via TNT Sports. This in turn means the discovery+ Standard plan & Eurosport linear channels are closing.

What about my subscription?

On your next renewal date on or after today, the price of your plan will decrease to the price of the Basic plan at £3.99/month. From 28 February, Sports content, including Eurosport 1 & 2, will no longer be included in your plan. From your next renewal on or after 28 February, you will continue to renew on the Basic plan unless you cancel in your account before that renewal.

If your plan was previously ad-free in on-demand content, on-demand content in the Basic plan contains ads.

To continue to access sports content, you can either upgrade your plan to the Premium (incl. TNT Sports) plan before 28 February 2025, or resubscribe to Premium after this date. If you are a direct customer you can upgrade via your account settings. If you are an app store customer you can upgrade via the app store unless you subscribe via Fire TV or Google. If you subscribe via Fire TV or Google, you will need to wait for your subscription to end before you can subscribe to the Premium plan.

If you've already cancelled your subscription when you get this notice then you don't need to take any further action. If you have cancelled but later change your mind, the changes above will also apply to you.

As always, you can contact us, plus find answers to your questions, in our Help Centre. and we hope you continue to enjoy discovery+.

Thanks,

The discovery+ Team

 

[Bubo]

What an absolute load of ****. Especially when you hear that Eurosport 1 & 2 are carrying on as free to air in the other 50 countries around the world that currently show it. It is only UK & Ireland that are losing it to TNT Sports only.

 

[Bear]

Gutted, no free to watch cycling in the UK anymore as ITV4 lost its coverage as well

 

[ic1male]

Gutted, no free to watch cycling in the UK anymore as ITV4 lost its coverage as well

Probably why they’re doing it. They’re spending millions buying up the rights for big sports and need to make the money back.

 

[Showboat]

Dang, i remember watching the less available sports on Eurosport in the early sky days.
Skiing and wintersports. Recently i just use it for australian open tennis.

 

[jpaul]

Gutted, no free to watch cycling in the UK anymore as ITV4 lost its coverage as well

need to engineer an impromptu family and share a subscription / discovery+ app ?
eurosport had had some reasonable tdf offers in previous years and a subscription limited to cycling would be ok.

Olympics, for watching climbing, was already a disaster unless you had eurosport access