⁠The expected television coverage of the 20th European Athletics Championships in
Barcelona is 1,063 hours in total, with 45 television channels from across Europe
and outside the continent expressing intentions to televise the biggest athletics
event of the year.


The championships, which will have Merlene Ottey as one of the big names, will
receive more than 900 hours of live coverage over six days.


National broadcasters from 27 European countries will be showing the event,
while, in addition, pan-European channel Eurosport plans to show the majority of
the championships live across its 59 territories.


Outside Europe, the event will be broadcast by TBS in Japan, KBS in South Korea,
Dubai Sports and pan-Asian channel ESPN Star Asia.


The European Athletics Championships is the biggest event in the European
Athletics’ competition programme.  A record 1,370 athletes from all the 50 Member
Federation countries are entered for this year's event in Barcelona.


The event is supported by European Athletics’ long-standing international
partners SPAR, OMEGA, EPSON, LE GRUYÈRE and EUROVISION, along with a
number of national partners and suppliers.