Commentary and coverage on HBO MAX (formerly TNT, Discovery, EuroSport etc)

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is there a version of the Vuelta on TNT where one does not have to watch the Breakaway

A version where one can see the podiums and interviews ...there was at the Tour on GCN ?

Does anyone know. I cannot abide the Breakaway

Adam Blythe spouting rubbish, Orla so annoying and Matt Stephens stating the bleeding obvious in the most verbose way

Surely there is an alternative ???
that a good post
 
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My special offer subscription finishes today but I cancelled it a few days ago before automatically renewing at the standard price. They sent me another offer of 25.99 pounds for 3 months but for only TNT Sports.
 
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My special offer subscription finishes today but I cancelled it a few days ago before automatically renewing at the standard price. They sent me another offer of 25.99 pounds for 3 months but for only TNT Sports.
They didn't send me another offer after I cancelled my introductory deal, I'm offended haha!

I'm having a lot of success with VPN + SBS though, so I'll probably give that a go next year. I need to check what races they show though. They don't have the Canadian classics but I switched my VPN to Canada and found them on an official Youtube channel. So far, so good!
 
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They didn't send me another offer after I cancelled my introductory deal, I'm offended haha!

I'm having a lot of success with VPN + SBS though, so I'll probably give that a go next year. I need to check what races they show though. They don't have the Canadian classics but I switched my VPN to Canada and found them on an official Youtube channel. So far, so good!
I've got a VPN because I've recently moved back to the UK from overseas (had it since the Eurosport Player days) and kept it since vodafone are blocking me from using Zwift but somehow changing the IP to another UK address works.

Your new "offer" might show up in an e-mail soon.
 
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Just put on the British gravel National championships, and David Harmon is commentating... I beg he comes back to Eurosport, he was their last good commontator!
 
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Upon reflection I may have been a trifle harsh on Hatch, last night I watched England France Womans Rugby World Cup Semi Final, that woman commentor was absolutel dire, crickey almighty, havnt a clue who is or i,d, tell you. Luckily I watched the Canada NZ game on RTE when we were on holiday so I was spared her.
Anyway i,ll not complain about Hatch , Orla and Matt for a while
 
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Upon reflection I may have been a trifle harsh on Hatch, last night I watched England France Womans Rugby World Cup Semi Final, that woman commentor was absolutel dire, crickey almighty, havnt a clue who is or i,d, tell you. Luckily I watched the Canada NZ game on RTE when we were on holiday so I was spared her.
Anyway i,ll not complain about Hatch , Orla and Matt for a while
Sara Orchard was the rugby commentator yesterday.
 
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And they have changed the inefficient app for TV for one that doesn't have any way of indexing cycling content at all. Their disdain for customers continues to grow.
Also noticed that, whilst they still have 2 streams for each event, there are no graphics that would indicate which is the linear TV channel version with adverts and which is ad free.
 
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Also noticed that, whilst they still have 2 streams for each event, there are no graphics that would indicate which is the linear TV channel version with adverts and which is ad free.
The ad free ones just say 'TNT Sports', oposed to the linear TV ones which would have the channel number like 'TNT Sports 1'. But they are slowly getting rid of the add free options.
 
The ad free ones just say 'TNT Sports', oposed to the linear TV ones which would have the channel number like 'TNT Sports 1'. But they are slowly getting rid of the add free options.

Yes, but they don't indicate the channel number, or lack of a channel number, on the new app. And their customer service :)laughing::laughing::laughing:) agents deny that there is any such thing as advertisement-free coverage of anything.
 
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Screen message last night stating I needed to upgrade my subscription to watch sport.
Eventually recieved a email admitting their having issues. Now rectified.

That removing the ability to select specific sports is really frustrating.
 
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Okay, I find it rather amusing how, if you go far enough ahead on the schedule - on MAX, might be different on TNT - it'll just be "Bike Race!"
 
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Add free options all week...comes to the men's elite. Nope we're not going to give you that. Honestly they can get in the bin. Knobs
 
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"None of these riders [in Langkawi] were riding the Elite Men's Road World Championships."
Not ***, Sherlock!
Yes, I know stage 1 finished before the Worlds started, but still a pretty insane schedule.
 
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So they (discovery+ in UK at least) didn't make the replay of Guangxi stage 1 available on demand, claiming that such were the broadcasting rights, yet there are the stage two highlights, promptly made available. So broadcast rights for stage one are sold on a different basis? I simply don't find that credible.

What was shown of stage 1 at the beginning of stage 2 broadcast was impossibly jumpy to watch: eventually they put up a "We are experiencing a technical issue" screen, and it was eventually better.
 
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Who knew Hatch knew anything about cricket 🤔

that's right following in the legendary cricket comm box exploits of the likes of Benaud, Trueman, Arlott, Johnston,Greig, Willis, Boycott, Gower, Atherton...steps our Hatch into the Ashes cauldron of late night/early mornings, because they're not actually sending him to Oz, commentary.



Do the people who run Discovery even understand sport anymore ?
 
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Who knew Hatch knew anything about cricket 🤔

that's right following in the legendary cricket comm box exploits of the likes of Benaud, Trueman, Arlott, Johnston,Greig, Willis, Boycott, Gower, Atherton...steps our Hatch into the Ashes cauldron of late night/early mornings, because they're not actually sending him to Oz, commentary.



Do the people who run Discovery even understand sport anymore ?
I've stayed up for the first away test twice in my life, the first in 2006, as a young lad fresh off the enthusiasm of 05, heart racing in anticipation, as Steve Harmison immediately lobs the biggest pie in the history of professional cricket.

The second in 2021. Starc to Rory Burns. First ball, behind the *** legs.

I was thinking about giving it another go this time around, but with the increased sub fee and average non-Nasser/Atherton lineup it's probably just going to be TMS in the early mornings as usual. Probably for the best.

Hatch at least seems bright enough, just be thankful it's not Carlton.
 

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