The championship involves the fastest road-based race cars in the world competing in endurance events at leading circuits in Europe and the Middle East.
In the UK, all races will be broadcast live and in full on Flextech-owned channels Bravo and Player, with a terrestrial partner to be announced shortly.
In Italy, Sky Italia will be the exclusive partner for live broadcasts, while the one-hour highlights will be shared with Nuvolari, Italy’s specialist motorsports channel.
DSF, Germany’s leading sports channel, will broadcast the highlights programme to its 33 million homes in peak time on Wednesdays.
Other live European broadcast partners so far include AB Moteurs in France, UPC-owned Sport1 in the Netherlands, Czech terrestrial TV and Telesport Romania, with whom agreements are being finalised.
Motors TV, Europe’s leading motorsports channel, will be broadcasting highlights to 30 European countries.
Beyond Europe, all races will be shown live on Al Jazeera across the Middle East with highlights on Future TV across the region. Agreements are also in place with The Speed Channel (70 million homes in North America), as well as TV Globo and Sport TV in Brazil.
The championship will also receive exposure on ESPN Star Sports with all rounds being carried in the long-running International Motorsports programme, which reaches more than 57 million homes throughout Asia.
ESPN Star Sports' Victor Cui will be speaking at SportBusiness Campus later this month, www.campus.sportbusiness.com
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