Commentary on TNT and other WB brands

[awavey]

The women's Giro has an ad-free version, but not Le Tour. Livid with them and hope some sort of pressure is brought to bear, as they have breached advertising standards regulations.

but theyre stating the multi view is the ad free feed for the TdF, so I cant see theyll have breached anything, youve got ad free coverage


whats more annoying is the slow assed pace in the TdF today meant theyre coverage overran, so I got 20mins of the tedious breakaway instead of the womens giro highlights, which meant I missed the podium and post stage interviews again, because somehow the live coverage cut early too, probably to go to the TdF

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Someone in the Studio team doesn't really understand. Huge background graphic proclaiming Pogacar's landmark as 100th pro stage win. "Only" 60 of them.

 

[Wyndbrook]

Someone in the Studio team doesn't really understand. Huge background graphic proclaiming Pogacar's landmark as 100th pro stage win. "Only" 60 of them.

Not surprised, they cannot even get the womens giro highlights right, programme ends before race finishes!

 

[awavey]

Not surprised, they cannot even get the womens giro highlights right, programme ends before race finishes!

they got it right tonight, well in so far as it was a complete program that is, the highlights themselves well it was just the last 30km of the stage in full, and no podium/interviews.

as I said a few posts back yesterday I think the Tour just overran and the epg didnt update, and clearly no-one checked the hour they picked off their content servers for streaming, so it just copy pasted the exact same hour when the Giro highlights were supposed to be, which was half of the breakaway, and only upto 10kms to go of the stage, Id guess the point is ultimately you werent missing any great package of highlights theyd put together, and you could still go rewatch the live stream of the race and get the same experience.

could happen again on stage 4, as the highlights are due right after their TdF coverage finishes.

 

[HashRouge]

If I see that eToro advert one more time I will not be responsible for my actions...

 

[awavey]

could happen again on stage 4, as the highlights are due right after their TdF coverage finishes.

and it did got to within the last km this time, at least the repeats seem to run to schedule even if it still seems to abruptly end with the stage results and gc standings

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Migels on German ES, who is already renowned for his endless cycling stories from years past, seems to try to remember even more stuff off the top of his head. He just told a story about Cancellara in the 2016 Tour abandoning, but then mentioned some unnecessary details like that the next stage finished in Finhaut-Émosson in France which is not the country Finhaut-Émosson is in, and which Cancellara still raced and then about the time trial to Megève, which he said was won by Rohan Dennis, who had already abandoned before. I know it‘s nice to know stuff, but just saying stuff that‘s wrong isn‘t that useful.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

"Wow wow wow! What a stage at the Tour de France"

So, Rob, what are you going to say at the end of a stage that is relevant and not utterly predictable?

 

[awavey]

I normally swap channels as soon as they cross the line, but there was nothing else worth watching so i left in on for once so is the post kind of wander round the team buses and sticking microphones in front of riders and DSs a new thing ?

 

[HashRouge]

I normally swap channels as soon as they cross the line, but there was nothing else worth watching so i left in on for once so is the post kind of wander round the team buses and sticking microphones in front of riders and DSs a new thing ?

Yes it is, they've only been doing it this year I think. Hannah Walker is actually really good at it, I'd be far too embarrassed!

 

[Izzyeviel]

So, what do we think of Larry on comms? I think he's good.