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Watching cycling: the broadcasters each organiser names, and the gaps.

Broadcast rights in cycling change from year to year and country to country. We list broadcasters only as a race organiser's own page names them, with the year that list applies to, and we say plainly where an organiser's list could not be read. We give no prices.

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Each list below is taken from the organiser's own page, with the year it covers. We do not add channels from other reports, we do not say what any service costs, and we do not say a race will be on the same channel next year. Where an organiser's list could not be read, we leave a gap rather than fill it from the trade press.

UCI Road World Championships 2026, Montreal

The UCI published its list on 19 September 2026, the day before the championships began.

Region (UCI list, 2026)Broadcasters named by the UCI
AfricaSuperSport
CanadaTVA, CBC and TOU.TV
United StatesFloSport
South AmericaDirecTV (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)
Mexico and parts of Central AmericaESPN
MalaysiaAstro
JapanJSports
AustraliaStan
New ZealandSky
Europe, national broadcastersZDF (Germany), VRT and RTBF (Belgium), TV2 (Denmark and Norway), TVE (Spain), France TV (France), MTV (Hungary), RAI (Italy), NOS (Netherlands), RTP (Portugal), BBC (United Kingdom), STVR (Slovakia), RTV (Slovenia), SRG (Switzerland), Czech TV (Czechia)
Europe, pan-regionalEurosport in most European countries; TNT Sport in the UK and Ireland; streaming on HBO Max and Discovery+

The UCI also said its own YouTube channel would carry live coverage, subject to geo-blocking. The results are on Road World Championships.

Giro d'Italia 2026

From the organiser's 2026 "where to watch" page:

  • Europe: Warner Bros. Discovery through Eurosport, HBO Max and Discovery+; TNT Sports in the UK; live and free to air on RAI (Italy), EITB (Spain) and SRG (Switzerland); highlights on RTL and VRT (Belgium) and TV2 (Denmark); and BNT (Bulgaria) live for the first three stages, which started in Bulgaria.
  • Rest of the world: FloSports and Flobikes (Canada); HBO Max and TruTV (United States); DirecTV and ESPN (South America); Caracol and RCN (Colombia); JSports (Japan); Zhibo TV (China); SPOTV (Southeast Asia); SBS (Australia); OKKO (Russia).

Giro d'Italia Women 2026

Region (organiser list, 2026)Broadcasters
ItalyRai, plus Eurosport, Discovery+ and HBO Max
UK and IrelandTNT Sports and HBO Max
Rest of EuropeEurosport, HBO Max and Discovery+
BelgiumVRT and RTBF
United StatesHBO Max
Canada and the rest of North AmericaFloBikes
South AmericaDirecTV
Central AmericaESPN
ColombiaCaracol
Sub-Saharan AfricaSuperSport
AustraliaSBS
ChinaZhibo TV
JapanJ Sports (daily highlights)

The organiser's site also lists Rai and RTL 102.5 among its official partners and has an "Official Radio" page.

La Vuelta: an undated list

The broadcasters page on lavuelta.es carries no date, so we cannot confirm which year it applies to, or whether it covers La Vuelta Femenina. It lists: RTVE and Eurosport (Spain); Eurosport and HBO Max (Europe); RTBF and VRT (Belgium); TV2 (Denmark); TNT Sports (UK); Abu Dhabi Sports (Middle East and North Africa); SuperSport (Sub-Saharan Africa); beIN Sport Asia (Southeast Asia); Zhibo TV (China); J Sports (Japan); SBS (Australia); Sky Sport (New Zealand); ESPN (Latin America and the Caribbean); FloSports (Canada); Caracol TV and Canal RCN (Colombia); and NBC Sports and Peacock (United States).

A search summary of the same site said RTVE covered all 21 stages of the 2026 Vuelta on Television Espanola, Radio Nacional, RTVE.es and RTVE Play. We could not confirm that on the page itself.

The gaps

  • Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes: the organiser's sites, letour.fr and aso.fr, refused our research requests, so no organiser list could be read. Reports about Tour rights appeared in the trade press, but we do not use them, because we list only what an organiser states.
  • The Monuments: the organisers' own broadcaster lists were not read, so we name no broadcaster for Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege or Il Lombardia.
  • Track, mountain bike and cyclo-cross: our research found no organiser broadcaster list for the 2026 championships or the 2026-27 cyclo-cross season.

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