Recent content by Alberto Fishwick

Kirby and Smith were working for another broadcaster, not TNT.

Brian Smith doesn't get asked to the grand tours any more. I'm pretty sure that Kirby and Hatch will share lead comms again and that Lloyd and McEwen will be involved. McEwen certainly has better insights than Blythe but is another bantery bloke. It would be nice to think that we could have...

Kirby and Dan Lloyd did the world feed for several years but in the end I guess even RCS got fed up with CK. Ned Boulting and Matt Stephens have been in post for a few years now. Rob Hatch often says how much he loves Italy so would always punt for the Giro if he could. It does seem a bit odd...

Bath was the GCN location, I think. They have said a few times during commentary that they are in South-West London at the Warner/Discovery studios.

I suspect we will be hearing a lot of Jez Cox again this year. I have tried to give him the benefit of the doubt but I'm afraid he just gets on my nerves.

I know the Vuelta stage was raced very fast today, and that GCN can only work with the host broadcaster's timings, but the coverage was over almost before it started. I hope the rest of the week is better.

I believe CK is working for the host broadcaster at Romandie so those of us in the nay camp and watching via GCN can enjoy a week off. It looks like the grand tours will follow the same pattern as last year with Hatch leading for the Giro supported by Dan Lloyd, CK and Hatch sharing the Tour...

RAI Sport again, from 14.00 CET.

There is a 90 minute programme on Rai Sport from 15.10 CET. It can be accessed free via Raiplay but if you are outside Italy you will most likely need a VPN. I'm surprised GCN+ haven't picked this up; the climb past the arches up to the sanctuary is one of my favourite images in road racing

I believe so, yes. He even mentioned that he had gone to close the window of his home studio the other day as the heavy rain outside was audible! I think he might travel to the studio if his co-commentator is there but if they are also working remotely there isn't much to be gained. Apart from...

They took the world feed comms for once, on which Boulting was flying solo. I expect it was through gritted teeth as they had exhausted all their other options. Personally, I wish they would do it more often on races which are only on GCN+ and not Eurposport, where they don't have to factor in...

"Bouche-amuse" - give me strength. The bloke reckons to have lived in France for flip's sake.

I enjoyed that even more as GCN is about 30 seconds behind french telly so even as he said it I knew what was coming.

I count myself fortunate in that I live in the UK but have access to french TV and also speak the language (more or less). You have to change channels once or twice a day and there are ads (though not too many) but there are decent pre and post-race shows which don't involve Adam Blythe or...

That's the least of his problems for me. The high-pitched monkey noises and sharp intakes of breath are intensely irritating.