yeah this was friggin' ridiculous
luckily i get the spanish beIN for some reason, so i just switched to that. it didn't really bother me because listening to a language i don't understand instead of listening to Carlton Kirby is honestly a toss-up, if not slightly better, but it would have seriously sucked if i didn't have that channel. hopefully this was just because the race was on much later than usual and won't happen for the rest of the Giro.
other than that i think beIN does a decent job. very few commercial breaks and they're usually very short, and this is the first year i'm able to see the Giro in HD on my television, so i wont complain too much. it was just a TTT.