2017 USA TV Schedule

[Angliru]

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If you've been watching the tour in the USA on NBCSN, then tomorrow's stage#8 on Sat July 8 will not be shown on NBCSN, rather on NBC's regular broadcast channel. Starts at 7:00am CST. My TV listings don't show a separate "Preview" show on NBCSN nor NBC. I don't think this affects NBC Gold any.

I timed it and they showed commercials every 5 minutes and I'm being generous!!! I timed one span at 2 minutes of actual action before the cut to a commercial!!

 

[Nacho]

Ha! True! They usually load up on the commercials at the start/top-side of the broadcast so that they can show the last 30 minutes (more or less) commercial free. They especially do this on mountain finishes. Works pretty good too, for me at least, as I can do things around the house during commercials at the start of the race where it is kinda boring, and then settle into the last of the race, commercial free. I'd rather do this and get the announcers NBCSN have, than get it on straight stream with no commercials and the announcers they have.

So, if you average it out over the full length of the broadcast, commercials don't come any sooner together.

 

[Carols]

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If you've been watching the tour in the USA on NBCSN, then tomorrow's stage#8 on Sat July 8 will not be shown on NBCSN, rather on NBC's regular broadcast channel. Starts at 7:00am CST. My TV listings don't show a separate "Preview" show on NBCSN nor NBC. I don't think this affects NBC Gold any.

I timed it and they showed commercials every 5 minutes and I'm being generous!!! I timed one span at 2 minutes of actual action before the cut to a commercial!!

Yeah they front load the commercials....I do other things during that time or watch a stream if it is an active stage. We always get the finale commercial free. A real plus is I have the race saved on my dvr to make my own dvds from. That is why I want broadcast tv! I have decades of races I made off of tv broadcasts. I can edit the action in most GTS down to 6-8 hours .

 

[Sciatic]

If you happen to have an NBCSportsGold Cycling subscription, you can watch "La Course by Le Tour" live.
Schedule: All Times Eastern U.S.
Stage 1 Thursday 3:55 AM

Stage 2 Saturday 6:55 AM

 

[Carols]

Please tell me this isn't happening They were supposed to be carrying the Vuelta again this year!

"Universal HD is a soon-to-be-defunct American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by the Universal Television Networks unit of the NBCUniversal Television Group subsidiary of NBCUniversal. The network – which exclusively broadcasts in 1080i high definition – features a mix of films, drama series, sports, specials and performance arts programming from the NBCUniversal library, most of which are sourced from the company's cable networks."

EDIT: Okay I checked NBCSN cycling schedule and it says the Vuelta will now be on The Olympic Channel which is the channel replacing Universal HD. So I called DISH to see if they will be carrying The Olympic Channel and the answer was 'We'll have to check with the executive of the programming department'. I guess I'll find out on 7/15 when the switch is made by NBC .

Well it happened. Unless you have Comcast Xfinity you will not have the Vuelta on TV. Sigh...guess I'll have to fork over the $40 for NBCSportsGold even though I already pay for NBCSC so I can watch it streaming. But I dropped the $10 per month package that had Universal HD so I'll be even in 4 months. I'd much rather have the Vuelta (and Worlds ++) on TV!

 

[Carols]

The Tour of Utah is being shown live on Fox Sports 2 daily. And Gogo is there to assist with the call. I do like my Gogo!

 

[nedhill]

The Tour of Utah is being shown live on Fox Sports 2 daily. And Gogo is there to assist with the call. I do like my Gogo!

You can also go to the tour of utah website and watch the full race live as well.

 

[Nick C.]

The Vuelta will be on Universal Olympic on cable, at least on Comcast in the NYC metro area.

 

[Carols]

It seems there is a new cycling streaming option in the USA called FLOBikes. You can purchase it monthly ($30) or annually ($150). They have licensing for the RCS races among others, but nothing that NBCSports holds the license to.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? The online reviews at BBB in the last year are Good.

 

[Koronin]

It seems there is a new cycling streaming option in the USA called FLOBikes. You can purchase it monthly ($30) or annually ($150). They have licensing for the RCS races among others, but nothing that NBCSports holds the license to.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? The online reviews at BBB in the last year are Good.

Cost wise much more reasonable than fubo.tv. However to get all the races streamed you'd have to get both it AND NBCGold. So about $200 per year. Now I do think that this new FLOBikes is a better option to fubo.tv

 

[Carols]

It seems there is a new cycling streaming option in the USA called FLOBikes. You can purchase it monthly ($30) or annually ($150). They have licensing for the RCS races among others, but nothing that NBCSports holds the license to.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? The online reviews at BBB in the last year are Good.

Cost wise much more reasonable than fubo.tv. However to get all the races streamed you'd have to get both it AND NBCGold. So about $200 per year. Now I do think that this new FLOBikes is a better option to fubo.tv

Maybe I'll try it for the Giro. For the last 2 years I bought Fubo for 1 month-May. I have NBCSports and Olympic Channel on my satellite so I refuse to buy Gold. They used to give TV subscribers access and I pay to have the channels. Basically this year I've been going the Tizcycling route if it wasn't on the NBCSports channels.

 

[Koronin]

It seems there is a new cycling streaming option in the USA called FLOBikes. You can purchase it monthly ($30) or annually ($150). They have licensing for the RCS races among others, but nothing that NBCSports holds the license to.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? The online reviews at BBB in the last year are Good.

Cost wise much more reasonable than fubo.tv. However to get all the races streamed you'd have to get both it AND NBCGold. So about $200 per year. Now I do think that this new FLOBikes is a better option to fubo.tv

Maybe I'll try it for the Giro. For the last 2 years I bought Fubo for 1 month-May. I have NBCSports and Olympic Channel on my satellite so I refuse to buy Gold. They used to give TV subscribers access and I pay to have the channels. Basically this year I've been going the Tizcycling route if it wasn't on the NBCSports channels.

I need to upgrade to HD to get the Olympic channel, which I really do need to do. I agree about refusing to pay for NBCGold when I already pay for NBC channels through my Satellite.

I've been using a combination of Tizcycling, a streaming link a friend gave me for Eurosport, and YouTube for races after the fact (due to sleeping and work can't watch a lot of races live anyway). Right now trying to decide if I'll go to work late on Wednesday or just watch Movistar's twitter feed while I'm working for Fleche Wallone. NBCSN is showing it at like 1am Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

From what I can see of the little I've looked at FLOBikes it appears a lot easier to pick and choose to pay for a month here or there and not needed to pay for a month and then cancel. Not totally sure, but it appears set up to make it easier.

 

[Escarabajo]

FLOBikes still looks expensive option. I have NBCGold and you pay something around the ~$35 for 1 year. I don't think that is bad at all. I know it should come with the other package but then it is cycling here in America.

I looks like I will buy FLOBikes for one month. I hated Fubo so much.I still can't believe why they are charging so much for something that is not as popular here.

 

[Koronin]

I think for a lot of us our problem with NBCGold is that it should be free since we're already paying for NBC stations through cable/satellite. I agree FLOBikes is expensive for the entire year as well as month by month, but it's at least not connected to what we already get on TV. I definitely can't afford the yearly for it. I may consider a month here or there for specific races I want to see, if I have the extra money at the time. Which is also an issue.

 

[Carols]

It seems there is a new cycling streaming option in the USA called FLOBikes. You can purchase it monthly ($30) or annually ($150). They have licensing for the RCS races among others, but nothing that NBCSports holds the license to.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? The online reviews at BBB in the last year are Good.

Cost wise much more reasonable than fubo.tv. However to get all the races streamed you'd have to get both it AND NBCGold. So about $200 per year. Now I do think that this new FLOBikes is a better option to fubo.tv

Maybe I'll try it for the Giro. For the last 2 years I bought Fubo for 1 month-May. I have NBCSports and Olympic Channel on my satellite so I refuse to buy Gold. They used to give TV subscribers access and I pay to have the channels. Basically this year I've been going the Tizcycling route if it wasn't on the NBCSports channels.

I need to upgrade to HD to get the Olympic channel, which I really do need to do. I agree about refusing to pay for NBCGold when I already pay for NBC channels through my Satellite.

I've been using a combination of Tizcycling, a streaming link a friend gave me for Eurosport, and YouTube for races after the fact (due to sleeping and work can't watch a lot of races live anyway). Right now trying to decide if I'll go to work late on Wednesday or just watch Movistar's twitter feed while I'm working for Fleche Wallone. NBCSN is showing it at like 1am Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

From what I can see of the little I've looked at FLOBikes it appears a lot easier to pick and choose to pay for a month here or there and not needed to pay for a month and then cancel. Not totally sure, but it appears set up to make it easier.

When you sign up 'monthly' it is automatically charged monthly until you cancel. So it's no easier than Fubo.

Good luck with seeing Fleche on Wednesday!

 

[Carols]

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I think for a lot of us our problem with NBCGold is that it should be free since we're already paying for NBC stations through cable/satellite. I agree FLOBikes is expensive for the entire year as well as month by month, but it's at least not connected to what we already get on TV. I definitely can't afford the yearly for it. I may consider a month here or there for specific races I want to see, if I have the extra money at the time. Which is also an issue.

This. It has all the races that used to be on Universal, then on bEIN, that are not carried on the NBC stations.

But at this point I'm only willing to pay for the Giro I think. Tiznow has been pretty stable except for the Big Races. It's been tolerable .

 

[Koronin]

It seems there is a new cycling streaming option in the USA called FLOBikes. You can purchase it monthly ($30) or annually ($150). They have licensing for the RCS races among others, but nothing that NBCSports holds the license to.

Has anyone tried it? Is it any good? The online reviews at BBB in the last year are Good.

Cost wise much more reasonable than fubo.tv. However to get all the races streamed you'd have to get both it AND NBCGold. So about $200 per year. Now I do think that this new FLOBikes is a better option to fubo.tv

Maybe I'll try it for the Giro. For the last 2 years I bought Fubo for 1 month-May. I have NBCSports and Olympic Channel on my satellite so I refuse to buy Gold. They used to give TV subscribers access and I pay to have the channels. Basically this year I've been going the Tizcycling route if it wasn't on the NBCSports channels.

I need to upgrade to HD to get the Olympic channel, which I really do need to do. I agree about refusing to pay for NBCGold when I already pay for NBC channels through my Satellite.

I've been using a combination of Tizcycling, a streaming link a friend gave me for Eurosport, and YouTube for races after the fact (due to sleeping and work can't watch a lot of races live anyway). Right now trying to decide if I'll go to work late on Wednesday or just watch Movistar's twitter feed while I'm working for Fleche Wallone. NBCSN is showing it at like 1am Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

From what I can see of the little I've looked at FLOBikes it appears a lot easier to pick and choose to pay for a month here or there and not needed to pay for a month and then cancel. Not totally sure, but it appears set up to make it easier.

When you sign up 'monthly' it is automatically charged monthly until you cancel. So it's no easier than Fubo.

Good luck with seeing Fleche on Wednesday!

TY for the info.

Fleche Wallone is on NBCSN at 1am Wednesday night/Thursday morning. Currently I'm debating about going into work late Wednesday and watching a streaming feed or going to work and following it from Movistar's twitter feed. Haven't made up my mind yet. Most likely will depend on how many jobs I have. (I work as a Vendor).

 

[Koronin]

I wish BEin still had it. Their streaming service is included with cable/satellite prices.

 

[Carols]

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I wish BEin still had it. Their streaming service is included with cable/satellite prices.

Yeah but their stream wasn't even HD . But the Giro was on tv daily in full HD and I recorded it and edited it down to about 6-8 hours. I dropped the package that had bEIN when they dropped cycling!

Watching cycling in the USA becomes more difficult every year!

 

[zlev11]

i've been using Fubo this year and it's really good, especially if you have a Roku box or equivalent (not sure if Apple or Amazon carry the app on their device). i've actually been considering just dropping cable altogether and using Fubo, but I need ESPN for Formula 1 and Fubo doesn't carry it yet. very good HD picture, no commercials, and they've showed every non-ASO classic except E3. it is expensive but it's worth it if you're addicted to cycling like I am.

 

[Tonton]

I do steephill and tizcycling, and more, but those are the main ones. Steephill works.

 

[Koronin]

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I wish BEin still had it. Their streaming service is included with cable/satellite prices.

Yeah but their stream wasn't even HD . But the Giro was on tv daily in full HD and I recorded it and edited it down to about 6-8 hours. I dropped the package that had bEIN when they dropped cycling!

Watching cycling in the USA becomes more difficult every year!

It wasn't. Would have been nice, but it was free if you had their channel on your cable/satellite package and that's worth something. Yes all but 1 stage was on TV. I still have two of the 2016 Giro stages on my DVR actually. Bad thing is when I upgrade to an HD receiver I'll loose those along with last year's Fleche Wallone and LBL.

Yeah no kidding. It does keep getting harder and harder. I have a bunch of friends over in Spain that keep telling me I just need to move there then I can watch all the cycling I want. Only problem is that would require we (husband and I) can get jobs oh and neither of us speak much Spanish.

Tonton, yeah I use both of those and a Eurosport streaming only link a friend of mine gave me although YouTube.

 

[More Strides than Rides]

I skim this thread, but wanted to chime in about FLObikes. I suggest you do some research into the company, and see if that's your vibe. I've watched FloSports come into existance as a real grassroots and genuine organization since their origins as a Track and Field media gig, to a very corporate entity. On the one hand, it is giving coverage to niche sports that didn't otherwise get anything, but at the same time, their methods of "growing the sport" (whether it is wrestling, gymnastics or whatever), but they have alienated a lot of the real fans and athletes in those sports.

I haven't and won't give them any of my money, but you can make your own decision.

 

[Carols]

I do steephill and tizcycling, and more, but those are the main ones. Steephill works.

I also use steephill to find a link if Tizcycling isn't working. The Tiz stream was taken down due to copyright during either de Ronde or PR (can't remember which!)

You have the advantage of being multilingual so have choices I do not

 

[Carols]

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I skim this thread, but wanted to chime in about FLObikes. I suggest you do some research into the company, and see if that's your vibe. I've watched FloSports come into existance as a real grassroots and genuine organization since their origins as a Track and Field media gig, to a very corporate entity. On the one hand, it is giving coverage to niche sports that didn't otherwise get anything, but at the same time, their methods of "growing the sport" (whether it is wrestling, gymnastics or whatever), but they have alienated a lot of the real fans and athletes in those sports.

I haven't and won't give them any of my money, but you can make your own decision.

Their reputation was pretty bad on BBB until the last year when they seem to have gotten their act together. $30 to see the Giro with a decent stream might be worth it.

Fubo will cost me the same $30 if they let me have the first month at the $20 special despite not being a new customer.