{"id":5167,"date":"2025-12-19T14:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:40:18","slug":"anger-as-bbc-loses-commonwealth-games-bid-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=5167","title":{"rendered":"Anger as BBC loses Commonwealth Games bid \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Katie-Archibald-and-Lauren-Bell-of-Glasgow-cycling-team.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187730 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"475\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Katie-Archibald-and-Lauren-Bell-of-Glasgow-cycling-team.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187730 lazyload\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Katie-Archibald-and-Lauren-Bell-of-Glasgow-cycling-team.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Katie-Archibald-and-Lauren-Bell-of-Glasgow-cycling-team-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Katie-Archibald-and-Lauren-Bell-of-Glasgow-cycling-team-768x459.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Katie-Archibald-and-Lauren-Bell-of-Glasgow-cycling-team-600x359.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><img class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"\"\/><img class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"\"\/>Katie Archibald and Lauren Bell of the Glasgow cycling team (pic: Commonwealth Games)<img class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commonwealth Games organisers caused an angry backlash today after awarding the media rights for the Glasgow event to pay television service TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The subscription channel outbid the BBC, which had been the main partner and provided free-to-air coverage since 1954 for 18 games in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Scottish Health Secretary Neil Gray said he had met with Games officials today \u201cto express disappointment\u201d and pressed for the games to be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">TNT Sports is part of Warner Bros Discovery and is best known for screening Uefa Champions League matches as well as selected English Premier League fixtures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The BBC said it was \u201cunable to match\u201d TNT\u2019s bid to screen the games, which will take place from 23 July to 2 August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Commonwealth Sports said the decision to award live\u00a0broadcast rights to Warner Bros. Discovery\u2019s channels and platforms\u00a0\u201creflects\u00a0its rich storytelling history as the Home of the Olympic Games, and\u00a0the bold ambition of the\u00a0Commonwealth\u00a0Games\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It said fans will enjoy more hours of\u00a0live\u00a0coverage than ever before\u00a0with\u00a0athlete stories elevated, and new, innovative ways for audiences to be closer to the action of one of the biggest sporting events in Europe next summer.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">TNT Sports said it would show more than 600 hours of live coverage in a \u201cre-imagining\u201d of the games, which will feature 10 sports and six para sports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The broadcaster said every event would be streamed on HBO Max, which is due to launch in the UK and Ireland in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">However, Mr Gray said: \u201cIncredibly disappointed by this decision. We asked UKGov to protect Games as free to air, pressed BBC to make a meaningful bid &amp; Commonwealth Sport to ensure we could all watch for free. I\u2019ve met with @thecgf today to express disappointment &amp; pressed for Games to be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Anger #BBC #loses #Commonwealth #Games #bid #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Archibald and Lauren Bel&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[4799,1356,1680,266,4800,4797,265,4801,2178,4798],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}