"Eurosport is a fantastic asset. It is the ESPN of Europe" (David Zaslav, Discovery)

"Eurosport is a fantastic asset. There is no platform like it. In many ways, Eurosport is the ESPN* of Europe," said David Zaslav, CEO of Discovery Communications, on 14/02/2014, during the presentation of the results of the 2013 U.S. media company.

Eurosport channels are broadcast in 54 countries worldwide. "In every one of those countries, we have a local team that’s doing sales and that’s meeting with distributors to drive better distribution deals. So we can go very local. And if you remember, Eurosport only sells Pan-European right now. So what we did with our international business, when we took it from 120 million to over 1 billion, was we went local. So one, we think we have some real revenue opportunity by piggybacking on our existing infrastructure. And then, we will look opportunistically (in the acquisition of TV rights)," said David Zaslav.

*ESPN is a premium sports channel of the Disney company (USA). It is mainly located in North America.

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