Eurosport corresponds to TVP and Kurski. In the best possible way

who at the end of the broadcast of the Sunday competition at the Olympic hill in Zhangjiakou, where he won the bronze medal, shouted on public television: – For reasons independent of TVP, jumps have not enjoyed great popularity recently but they came home and there is an immediate effect.

Babiarz was not the only one, because the head of TVP had a similar allusion on Twitter, who wrote: “You have seen what happened. As soon as the jumps returned to Polish Television, the Polish successes immediately followed. We have the Olympic Games medal for Poland! 2 Poles in the sixth, 4th in the final round. Bravo Polish jumpers, bravo Dawid Kubacki! Let’s be together with TVP “.

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Babiarz’s words immediately met with a negative reception in the social media. Likewise, the post of the head of TVP, to which the wife of Kamil Stoch and Kubacki’s manager, about which on Twitter – in response to Kurski – wrote directly: “Dawid has been the ambassador of Eurosport for several years and in their broadcast he also won a medal today. Maybe let’s just enjoy it without overtones. Regards. Manager.

Eurosport responds to comments from TVP

Now he also reacts, who on Monday boasted about the results of watching, but at the very beginning he also stuck a pin on TVP, because he entitled his text: “Together we flew for the record!”.

It is true – together. And this is also reflected in the statistics that Eurosport boasts in the text. “On Sunday, Eurosport 1 recorded the best spectating results in history! The end of the second series of the competition on the normal hill and the jump for the Dawid Kubacki medal was watched by 2.2 million spectators!” – writes the station and informs that throughout the day its main channel reached a record 3.56 percent. market share.

– A record Sunday is a reason for us to be proud and another proof that the effort we put into the preparation of reports in Eurosport pays off. And the viewers appreciate the quality and professionalism. I would like to thank everyone who, including Eurosport and with us, let themselves be carried away by Olympic emotions. I wholeheartedly congratulate Dawid Kubacki – the ambassador of TVN Grupa Discovery – on winning the bronze Olympic medal – says Dorota ¯urkowska, director of Eurosport in Poland.

Ski jumping has almost disappeared from TVP

Let us recall: in October the Discovery group announced that it was taking over ski jumping. After many years, the World Cup almost disappears from the channels of Polish Television. The public broadcaster showed only Polish competitions – from Vistula and Zakopane, and in March it will also show the ski flying world championships in Vikersund, to which Discovery has no rights. The rest, and thus practically the entire 2021/22 season, can be watched by fans only on open TVN, in Eurosport and on player.pl.

“This is an unprecedented situation, because Polish Television has been broadcasting ski jumping for several decades, building the popularity of the discipline, recognizing players and increasing the exposure of sponsors. It is difficult not to associate this decision with an attempt to make sport part of the dispute. politics around the TVN station and the use of ski jumping as a kind of hostage in this dispute. Polish Television received signals that our partners from the Polish Ski Association were also concerned about this situation “- which ended with words addressed probably directly to Eurosport and the Discovery group: “We count on remembering, returning common sense, rejection of political intentions and cooperation, as in the case of the upcoming Beijing Olympics”

Discovery, which for many years has shared jumps with TVP, is not, however, obliged to sell sub-licenses to show the World Cup. The Broadcasting Act makes it clear that the most important sporting events for Polish fans, including P¦ in jumping, must be shown on free-to-air television. And TVN meets these requirements.