Cycling on USA TVs, desktops, laptops, and handheld devices

[Sciatic]

You have to keep in mind the ability to measure everything, and I mean everything. People are only semi aware that through big data ,they know who lives in your house, how much money they spend and make, ages,sex, and what you watch and for how long, YouTube for example has data for fraction of the second.. How deep you will go into a video or type of advertising before you click out. Television producers know that talking over the head of a big percentage of the audience is troubling, bike racing is ultra confusing to the majority of people who watch it.
In the US telling people that the guy who won the race,maybe multiple days is not the winner, he may have won 2 stages and had all the camera time but in the end is a semi nobody. In TV you almost need to repeat the basics daily and terms like breakaway, and peloton, domestique need to be defined for the audience..
Peacock and the rest know you, know how often people watch bike racing and what kind,how long do they watch, is it dependent on day of the week or time of day..
It's annoying but science says that the broadcast needs to be geared for everyone, not only the most knowledgeable!! Taylor Swift will have an effect, thousands of people who have never watched football will start and producers will need to bring the language in line with the entire audience instead of getting more and more technical w descriptions. I have watched bike racing in the VA hospital, in bars,houses of non cyclists and they are looking for example obvious stuff, needs to be NASCAR simple, it's not.

Good points, especially about repeating (and if needed re-explaining) standard terminology so an audience can learn and understand what happening. But an announcer can do that without constantly resorting to cliches, especially when they don’t even describe what’s happening on the screen. Almost like they are verbal tics. I’m certainly not saying I can do a better job—it takes a lot of work keep a running dialogue for several hours when not that much is happening in the race. But I guess I just do’nt have the stomach for listening to it, and often choose to watch in other languages.

 

[Sciatic]

McCrossan has a crappy sense of humor but he doesn't make the mistake of trying to pretend like cycling is some kind of high octane high excitement sport that the GCN/Eurosport guys do too often. I like a lower energy broadcast for cycling commentary generally.

I will give him that.

 

[zlev11]

there's not very many good cycling commentators and they all have their annoying habits. the only one i actually like listening to is Daniel Lloyd. i can put up with everyone else except for Jens, but I couldn't imagine having to listen to Kirby for 3 weeks straight.

 

[Potomac]

EDIT:

I'm removing the list of races and dates on MAX because there were too many errors.

We will have to find a better schedule of what they are going to offer.

 

[houtdffan]

they could get the dates right for Pais Vasco.

Maybe check the pias vasco site that says april 1-6, not 3-8

 

[Potomac]

they could get the dates right for Pais Vasco.

Maybe check the pias vasco site that says april 1-6, not 3-8

I wonder how many other mistakes they made?

 

[Sciatic]

I wonder how many other mistakes they made?

It’s funny that Pais Vasco is also the only one that I see on this list where they use the English translation of the race name

 

[scribers]

there's not very many good cycling commentators and they all have their annoying habits. the only one i actually like listening to is Daniel Lloyd. i can put up with everyone else except for Jens, but I couldn't imagine having to listen to Kirby for 3 weeks straight.

Kirby is like the Yacht Rock of commentators. He doesn't talk about much, but at least he does so at a low key.

Until of course when the sprint finish is on. Then it sounds like he's done a speedball of coke and is about to go on a murderous rampage.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Kirby is like the Yacht Rock of commentators. He doesn't talk about much, but at least he does so at a low key.

Until of course when the sprint finish is on. Then it sounds like he's done a speedball of coke and is about to go on a murderous rampage.

Who is the lone commentator for Peacock right now? I thought it was Liggett but is it Kirby? (I usually don't have the sound on early in the morning, so if the commentators introduce themselves I usually miss it.)

 

[SHAD0W93]

Who is the lone commentator for Peacock right now? I thought it was Liggett but is it Kirby? (I usually don't have the sound on early in the morning, so if the commentators introduce themselves I usually miss it.)

It’s the one that does the main commentary for the Peacock TdF stream vs the NBC stream with Liggett and Roll.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

It’s the one that does the main commentary for the Peacock TdF stream vs the NBC stream with Liggett and Roll.

I'm googling like mad but can't find anything on the Peacock Volta a Catalunya commentators. I'm so confuuuused!

 

[Sciatic]

I'm googling like mad but can't find anything on the Peacock Volta a Catalunya commentators. I'm so confuuuused!

I thought folks upthread mentioned it is McCrossen? Sounds like him.

 

[fbjim]

Yeah it's McCrossan. Not sure who was doing it for Paris-Nice, one of those names I can't remember.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I thought folks upthread mentioned it is McCrossen? Sounds like him.

I wasn't reading all the posts upthread, my bad.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Yeah it's McCrossan. Not sure who was doing it for Paris-Nice, one of those names I can't remember.

Thank you!

Do we ever get Kirby on Peacock when they do international feeds? I feel like I'm missing out on a legend.

 

[houtdffan]

Yeah it's McCrossan. Not sure who was doing it for Paris-Nice, one of those names I can't remember.

Boob Roll was doing PN

 

[Potomac]

24.03	Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME
27.03	Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre ME
31.03	Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres ME

So it looks like these next three races are neither Max or Peacock.

If you have a VPN and you want an English language broadcast, G-W and RVV will be available on Australia's SBS

For the Dwars I don't seen any state broadcaster in English. So there's a chance to watch the race in Flemish, or French or Dutch or Italian etc.

 

[houtdffan]

24.03	Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME
27.03	Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre ME
31.03	Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres ME

So it looks like these next three races are neither Max or Peacock.

If you have a VPN and you want an English language broadcast, G-W and RVV will be available on Australia's SBS

For the Dwars I don't seen any state broadcaster in English. So there's a chance to watch the race in Flemish, or French or Dutch or Italian etc.

they're on flo

 

[Sciatic]

24.03	Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields ME
27.03	Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre ME
31.03	Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres ME

So it looks like these next three races are neither Max or Peacock.

If you have a VPN and you want an English language broadcast, G-W and RVV will be available on Australia's SBS

For the Dwars I don't seen any state broadcaster in English. So there's a chance to watch the race in Flemish, or French or Dutch or Italian etc.

Belgian broadcasts are great for watching Dpring Classics:
Sporza.be (Dutch)
RTBF.be (French)

 

[Carols]

Thank you!

Do we ever get Kirby on Peacock when they do international feeds? I feel like I'm missing out on a legend.

We'll probably get him for the Giro I fear. He is my Least Favorite commentator. Talks about anything but the race and giggles All the time. He can call a sprint; I'll give him that.

 

[zlev11]

We'll probably get him for the Giro I fear. He is my Least Favorite commentator. Talks about anything but the race and giggles All the time. He can call a sprint; I'll give him that.

Rob Hatch has been the Giro commentator for Eurosport the past 3 seasons so I would think it'll be him again. Eurosport uses Kirby for the Tour and Vuelta, thank god.

 

[Sciatic]

Pretty wild . . . US riders rarely winning European one-day races, and now two wins within a week!

 

[ManicJack]

FloBikes has tomorrow start time as 1:55 AM MDT and the race doesn't start until 3:20 AM. Is there a long pre race show, or is it just listed incorrectly?

 

[Potomac]

FloBikes has tomorrow start time as 1:55 AM MDT and the race doesn't start until 3:20 AM. Is there a long pre race show, or is it just listed incorrectly?

I think the race starts 4AM Eastern, so that's 2am Mountain.

Europe sets their clocks ahead overnight, so we are back to the normal time zone differences.

But I know nothing about Flo bikes coverage.

 

[ManicJack]

I think the race starts 4AM Eastern, so that's 2am Mountain.

Europe sets their clocks ahead overnight, so we are back to the normal time zone differences.

But I know nothing about Flo bikes coverage.

👍 Didn't realize they turn their clocks ahead tomorrow. PCS says start time is 10:20 CET.