Overview

• ITV will broadcast the 2025 Tour de France for the last time on July 27, ending four decades of free-to-air coverage in the UK
• Warner Bros Discovery secured exclusive UK live rights from 2026, with races moving to TNT Sports channels and Discovery+ UK fans can either pay roughly £30 a month for live stages or wait for delayed highlights packages
• Warner Bros Discovery is negotiating free-to-air highlights deals, with Quest among the frontrunners to carry edited race coverage
• Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme is pushing for live, free-to-air broadcasts of the 2027 UK Grand Depart stages