The 31st European Athletics Indoor Championships in Paris is set to receive about 150 hours of live television coverage on the continent, with 28 television channels from across Europe expressing intentions to televise the biggest indoor athletics event of the year.
According to the latest broadcast intentions received by European Athletics, there will be at least 173 hours of free-to-air television coverage in Europe of the 4-6 March championships, with approximately 150 hours of live coverage.
The total number of hours of intended live coverage is expected to increase once the broadcast intentions of some remaining rights-holders are received.
National broadcasters from 25 European countries will be showing the event. In addition, pan-European channel Eurosport plans to show the majority of the championships live across its 59 territories.
Outside Europe, the event will be broadcast by Eurosport Asia, ESPN Star Asia, TBS in Japan, Supersport South in South America, Dubai Sports Channel and Sportsmax Jamaica.
The European Athletics Indoor Championships is the biggest event in the 2011 European Athletics’ competition programme. A record 593 athletes from 46 of the 50 Member Federation countries are entered for this year's event in Paris.
The event is supported by European Athletics’ long-standing international partners SPAR, OMEGA, LE GRUYˆRE and EUROVISION, along with a number of national partners and suppliers.