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[postmanhat]

Does anyone have any info on Eurosport's coverage for this year?

Am hoping Sky haven't nicked any more races here in The UK

 

[postmanhat]

Found the 2015 schedule on another site.

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Compared to last year looks like no USA Pro Challenge , Tour of Britain (!), Pino Cerami, Tro Bro Leon, or Tour of Oman. But can't remember if they showed the latter anyway?

Additions - Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Tour of Yorkshire , Saltama Crit, Tour De Le Metropole, Milan-Torino

I've probably just forgotten what they did or didn't end up showing last year, so the above comparisons are probably incorrect.

Wonder if Sky or ITV have taken the rights to US PRO and TOB in the UK?

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Found the 2015 schedule on another site.

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Compared to last year looks like no USA Pro Challenge , Tour of Britain (!), Pino Cerami, Tro Bro Leon, or Tour of Oman. But can't remember if they showed the latter anyway?

Additions - Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne, Tour of Yorkshire , Saltama Crit, Tour De Le Metropole, Milan-Torino

I've probably just forgotten what they did or didn't end up showing last year, so the above comparisons are probably incorrect.

Wonder if Sky or ITV have taken the rights to US PRO and TOB in the UK?

BTW they did actually show KBK, Saitama Crit and the final stage of the Tour of Euromettopole.

Plus that also looks like a bad translation, so probalbly is another countries Eurosport

 

[Pricey_sky]

Tour of Britain was live on both ITV and Eurosport iirc so maybe ITV have got exclusivity or something.

I remember ITV had ToB exclusive rights the year before so perhaps it's gone back to that.

 

[staubsauger]

K-B-K was only on British Eurosport. At least it wasn't on Eurosport Germany / former Eurosport International. Actually I'm not quite sure anymore if it was on Eurosport 2 instead.

But there were quite a few races which appeared in those listings which weren't coveraged. The Giro d' Italia also is Eurosport HD exclusive for a while now in Germany. Might be because RSO gave away rights to BeIN / Al Jazeera and don't want to give Eurosport Germany free-to-air Europe rights anymore.

Luckily ASO / Unipublic still give away Tour and Vuelta rights.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay... Giro del Trentino is one race that should not be translated into English.
Or at least they should translate it proberly; Tour of Trentino, as opposed to Tour of Trentin.

 

[Albert Fishwick]

Tour down Under will be on Sky again in the UK. Not much use to me, sadly.

 

[manafana]

Sky has handful of the races, TDU Romandie and not sure what others, also covers some of RCS races but alongside.

 

[argyllflyer]

Sky has handful of the races, TDU Romandie and not sure what others, also covers some of RCS races but alongside.

They've got the rights to all the Flanders classics races (but tend to show highlights bar the Ronde) as well as Paris-Roubaix and Amstel Gold which iirc they shared live coverage of with Eurosport last year.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Sky also show daily highlights from the Giro.

 

[argyllflyer]

A welcome site:

http://tv.eurosport.co.uk/search.shtml?query=cycling

Something in the schedule at last!

 

[argyllflyer]

The British Eurosport commentary pairings for 2015:

Dubai: Hatch & Smith
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race: Phil Liggett, Matt Keenan and Robbie McEwen (international broadcast)
Oman: tbc
Andalucia: tbc

 

[postmanhat]

Thanks Argyll

Does that mean they will be showing Oman Live, or only highlights do you think?

 

[argyllflyer]

Thanks Argyll

Does that mean they will be showing Oman Live, or only highlights do you think?

It will be the same format as previous years I believe - a 30 min highlights programme the morning after the stage, repeated across the day.

The Cadel race is also highlights and is not being shown til midweek annoyingly.

 

[Captain Serious]

I've been enjoying Robbie McEwen on Aussie tv this summer, especially (obviously) when there's a sprint finish.
O.S. joints could do a LOT worse than poaching him

 

[Lupi33]

hate watching highlights - it goes against the whole groove of watching cycling

either cover the race properly or dont televise it at all

 

[argyllflyer]

hate watching highlights - it goes against the whole groove of watching cycling

either cover the race properly or dont televise it at all

If you've not seen it yet, the Cadel Evans race last 20km is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK5z8ujtLTE&list=PLoV9MY3m79a7MLSPdMn9B-iYx8WYTtQlN

 

[argyllflyer]

A fairly rare thing for Eurosport to buy in an entire package of highlights - they used the international highlights package for the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Race. Bit odd hearing Phil Liggett on Eurosport. But they've also been buying in the UCI's coverage of the cyclocross World Cup and World Championships lately (comms by Anthony McCrossan) and last year used the bought in package for the Women's Tour (comms by Hugh Porter and Brian Smith).

Begs the question though,why are they buying in a full elite road cycling package when in the past they'd probably have done their own commentary to the pictures?

 

[argyllflyer]

Stage 4 of Andalucia is not being shown live because of sledging and snowball fights on both channels.

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Stage 4 of Andalucia is not being shown live because of sledging and snowball fights on both channels.

Snowball fights?

 

[argyllflyer]

Snowball fights?

Walll to wall winter sports of various kinds.

 

[Poursuivant]

Anyone got a link to their 2015 schedule??

 

[lemon cheese cake]

Walll to wall winter sports of various kinds.

Ok thanks.

 

[argyllflyer]

Anyone got a link to their 2015 schedule??

Their provisional cycling coverage is on post 1445 of this thread.

 

[peloton]

Anyone got a link to their 2015 schedule??

Here