ESPN Announces They Will No Longer Cover French Open

ESPN dropping the French Open

Since ESPN was competing with other major stations for coverage of the French Open, they have made the decision to stop broadcasting the tournament. Stuck with off-hours coverage of the tournament, it no longer made sense for ESPN to continue it’s coverage.
“Ratings generally speaking for the French were a bit lower than the U.S. Open,” said Scott Guglielmino, ESPN’s senior vice president of programming. “We are running a dynamic business, and it was a decision taken more as a strategic decision that had to do, at the heart of it, we were one of three distributors, or outlets if you will, for the French.”

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ESPN dropping the French Open

Since ESPN was competing with other major stations for coverage of the French Open, they have made the decision to stop broadcasting the tournament.
“Ratings generally speaking for the French were a bit lower than the U.S. Open,” said Scott Guglielmino, ESPN’s senior vice president of programming. “We are running a dynamic business, and it was a decision taken more as a strategic decision that had to do, at the heart of it, we were one of three distributors, or outlets if you will, for the French.”