Over 20 broadcasters will broadcast the live action from Royal Ascot's five-day meeting from Tuesday through Saturday. ITV Racing is the host broadcaster, which will offer a five-hour programme each day. Sky Sports Racing and Virgin Media will also show all of the action to UK and Irish audiences. In America, Peacock, the digital arm of NBC, will broadcast the first four days and NBC will broadcast on Saturday. Racing.com will be transmitting from the course for Australia alongside Green Channel for Japan. Other broadcasters on site include: Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) (Scandinavia), RAI (Italy), Setanta (Baltics countries and Eurasia); Sport TV (Portugal), Silknet (Georgia), Polsat (Poland), CYTA (Cyprus) and WedoTV (Germany, Switzerland and Austria), Eclat (Southeast Asia), Star+/ESPN (Latin America), DMI (Dubai), Wasu.TV will (China), Spark Sport (New Zealand), Charlton TV (Israel), Super Sport (Africa), SportsMax (Caribbean), and Sport24 will ensure the event is seen on airlines and cruise ships worldwide.
Reuters and Transworld Sports will distribute the full event to their wide networks of news outlets; and all international broadcasters will have access to the full 35-race schedule through the ITV world feed. For the first time, Ascot Racecourse in partnership with HBA Media, have commissioned a special one-hour live production–The Golden Hour–that takes in the best of the action on and off the course on Gold Cup Day, on June 16.
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