The America´s Cup announced today that the leading French broadcaster CANAL+ will provide comprehensive live coverage of all the America’s Cup events during the next 18 months comprising this week’s World Series yacht regatta in Naples, Italy.
France´s CANAL+ to bring live coverage from Naples © ACEA 2012/ Photo Gilles Martin-Raget
This follows recent broadcast announcements with NBC in the USA, Sky Sports in the UK and Ireland, and Italy’s Mediaset.
CANAL+ and the America’s Cup have reached an agreement for live coverage of the 34th America’s Cup and the Louis Vuitton Cup in San Francisco in 2013, and all preceding America’s Cup World Series events.
This week CANAL+SPORT will broadcast the live action every day from the America’s Cup World Series-Naples, April 11-15.
“We are pleased to offer French sailing fans the opportunity to see the remarkable and dramatic images of the entire America’s Cup campaign,” said Cyril Linette, Sports Editorial Director of CANAL+.
“We know sailing fans are excited by the new look of the America’s Cup and with this agreement we’ll be bringing all the action, live starting from Naples, home to our viewers in France.”
The TV broadcast puts the viewer ‘on the race boats’, listening to the sailors’ voices and seeing every move via onboard microphones and cameras. The Emmy-nominated LiveLine graphics, which use cutting edge technology to overlay easy-to-understand explanatory information on the live television pictures, brings a new level of accessibility to fans across the world.
“It’s great that CANAL+ have joined our already impressive list of broadcast partners,” said Stan Honey, Director of Technology and the mastermind behind LiveLine. “Through our investments in technology to capture and explain the race action we have been able to produce more dramatic coverage and build interest from both new and existing fans across the world.”
French sailing fans will be cheering for their home crew, Energy Team, skippered by Yann Guichard, which made considerable strides during the last regatta in San Diego in November 2011.
Live coverage on CANAL+SPORT this week will commence at 14:00 CEST each day from Wednesday until Saturday, and from 14:30 CEST on Sunday, April 15 for the final dramatic fleet race.
