Discovery's GOLFTV Gets Rights to European Events

[nevets88]

I wonder who had the rights to these previously. Guessing local media companies or maybe none?

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GOLFTV will carry more than 40 European Tour events per year starting in January*. These events will include:

• Every Race to Dubai event throughout the season.
• All Rolex Series events, including the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, Dubai Duty Free Irish Open, Aberdeen Standard investments Scottish Open, BMW PGA Championship, Italian Open, Turkish Airlines Open, Nedbank Golf Challenge and season-ending DP World Tour Championship, Dubai.
• All World Golf Championships (WGC)*** events, including the Mexico Championship, the Dell Technologies Match Play, the FedEx St. Jude Invitational and HSBC Champions.
• Golf Sixes and the Hero Challenge.
• The European Challenge Tour and Staysure Tour.

For these markets:

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From January 2019, Discovery will hold live European Tour rights in the following markets (please see Notes to Editors for full market list):

• Exclusive linear and digital rights in markets including Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain (sublicense agreed with Movistar+), Turkey;
• GOLFTV digital streaming rights in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.  Portugal, Balkan countries, Eurasia, India, Latin America, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and a number of territories in Asia;

https://corporate.discovery.com/discovery-newsroom/discovery-strikes-agreement-with-european-tour-to-expand-golftv-portfolio-and-establish-the-digital-home-of-golf/