Munich hosts multi-sport European Championships 2022 World Broadcaster Meeting

Europe’s leading free-to-air broadcasters met in Munich earlier this week at the World Broadcaster Meeting for the European Championships 2022 to learn more about ongoing preparations for the second edition of the multi-sport event.

The European Championships 2022 will once again bring together the existing championships of some of the continent’s leading sports – including, for the very first time, Beach Volleyball – into one multi-sport event to create a must-watch, must-attend experience that elevates the Champions of Europe.

About 80 Broadcaster representatives attended the meeting either in-person or remotely from the BBC (Great Britain), NRK (Norway), France Télévisions, NOS (Netherlands), SRG SSR (Switzerland), YLE (Finland), ARD and ZDF (Germany), SVT (Sweden), TVP (Poland), RAI (Italy), RTE (Ireland), RTVS (Slovakia), VRT and RTBF (Belgium), TVE (Spain), Czech Television, HRT (Croatia), TRT (Turkey), DKDR (Denmark), RTP (Portugal), MTVA (Hungary), and RTV Slovenija.

In total, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) already has agreements with 44 broadcasters in Europe to cover the event.

The Munich 2022 local organising committee presented its Host Broadcast plans that include more than 400 hours of live production of the nine participating sports across the 12 competition venues from 11^th to 21^st August 2022. The Host Broadcast operations will not only provide state-of-the-art coverage for linear TV, but will also provide extensive support for the digital and social coverage of the broadcasters and the participating federations. With the use of legacy facilities and landmarks from the 1972 Olympic Games – including the Olympiapark as the centre point of the championships – the LOC emphasised the sustainability concepts and initiatives at the heart of the event organisation - which minimise the environmental impacts and unnecessary costs for the host city.

Broadcasters were excited to see the shared vision of the Munich 2022 LOC, European Championships Management and other stakeholders to build on the success of the first edition of the European Championships in Glasgow and Berlin, both on the field of play and on television screens and digital channels worldwide.

Achim Hammer, Head of Programme for ZDF, and Steffen Lunkenheimer, Head of Programme for ARD, said, “This World Broadcaster Meeting was very special – it really created a ‘wow’ factor for us. The commitment of Munich and all the stakeholders to make the multi-sport European Championships 2022 a big success is clear and we are confident the German public will embrace this event like they did in 2018.”

Ron Chakraborty from BBC Sport said, “The Munich 2022 WBM was a top-class event, with great presentations and plenty of progressive thinking from the LOC and Host Broadcaster and European Championships Management. We saw how TV audiences reacted very favourably to the Glasgow/Berlin event, and now after seeing the Host Broadcast plans and the venues from the 1972 Olympic Games that will provide a fantastic backdrop, we are assured that with Munich in 2022 the multi-sport European Championships is going from strength-to-strength.”

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