SRO, promoter of the international FIA GT Championship, announced today a series of television broadcast agreements with leading broadcasters from Europe and beyond.

In the UK, all races will be broadcast live and in full on FLEXTECH-owned channels BRAVO and PLAYER and a terrestrial partner will be announced soon. In Italy, SKY ITALIA will be the exclusive partner on the live, while the one-hour highlights will be broadcast on NUVOLARI, Italy’s specialist motorsports channel. DSF, Germany’s leading sports channel will broadcast the highlights programme to its 33m 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 currently being finalised. Motors TV, Europe’s leading motorsports channel, will ensure that FIA GT reaches the maximum number of fans across  Europe by broadcasting the highlights to 30 European countries.



Stephane Ratel, Chairman of the SRO group said: “With a record number of cars, drivers and teams this is a fantastic time to get involved in the broadcast of the FIA GT Championship. We know we have the quality and excitement that fans will enjoy and these new strong TV partnerships will allow us to deliver that to them in the best possible way”

Beyond Europe, all races will be shown live on AL JAZEERA across the Middle East with highlights on FUTURE TV across the region, and 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 2006 FIA GT championship will also receive exposure on ESPN Star Sports with all rounds being carried in the long running International Motorsports programme. The channel currently broadcasts to over 57 million homes throughout Asia.

Having secured most of the live coverage, SRO is now concentrating on the distribution of short edited programmes to terrestrial networks.