FloBikes announced they had signed with InFront for a deal through 2024 to broadcast Flanders Classics races in the USA.
What will happen with these InFront/FC/etc. races for 2025? Will FloBikes retain them? Will Peacock or Max/Discovery make a better deal? It seems like WBD/GCN/Eurosport had troubles negotiating with these race organizers in the past for European rights, at least.
I'm planning to resolve it Yes as soon as there is a definitive announcement and the market strongly agrees it looks to be the case. I don't really want to wait all the way until April 2025 just to move from 99% to Yes. If InFront/Flanders Classics and/or the broadcaster makes an announcement, we will resolve right away.
This is a proxy for all of Flanders Classics, which seem to be a package deal. Other races from InFront currently on FloBikes are Suisse, Pologne, Amstel Gold, and the World Championships. If there is interest, we can also make markets for those!
This question is intended to resolve to one answer for an exclusive broadcast deal. If the exclusive partner presents the stream in multiple places "Streaming on Max and also available on Discovery+", it will resolve equally to each. That has to be clearly stated in the original, official announcement. If the original announcement says "On Max" and it later comes out that you could also see it on another platform, that will be too late, and also wouldn't count.
If there is a non-exclusive deal, where two or more completely separate companies have the rights, we'll resolve to each equally? This seems like a nightmare, let's hope it does not happen. They would need to coordinate announcement dates.
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New market for next year, hopefully someone will have more info!
There has been AFAIK no actual press release from either InFront or FloBikes, so this didn't resolve early.
All signs indicate that FloBikes will air this race this weekend -- they have already shown multiple races of the Flanders Cycling package.
Because of the lack of any long term agreement announcement, I'm curious how this will go in 2026, so I will make another market for that.
@Eliza Here's FloBikes, no listing at all for either USA or Canada:
Max from what I can tell only does the schedule about a month out.
Peacock also doesn't seem to have anything about it.
And I can't find any press releases from InFront, who seem to have a long term contract with the race organizer for the television rights.
