Dear ASO - open letter (tv coverage)

[Culkasi]

Dear ASO,

I have a suggestion for your TV coverage;

I should be able to buy TDF coverage in whatever language I want directly from the TDF website, and I would see the local channel coverage – that way the best coverage would be watched, and the local language channels would also be showing the best possible TV.

Its very frustrating to live abroad (which more and more do in this increasinly globalized world) and not be able to see something so important as TDF in your local language. I have grown up with watching TDF in Danish TV since I was a kid, and for me its almost as important as christmas – but living abroad I am forced to rely on good, but non-native coverage without the focus on Danish riders and results I am used to.

I hope you listen to this plea from a desperate fan – or hire me to go work for you next summer so I don’t have to worry about it.

Thank you in advance

Janus Basnov

p.s. this option would also allow you to sell races to countries where they are not currently distributed, as people could by them online and you could pass X amount on to the channel they choose to watch it from

p.p.s. Thank you for reading this and taking your time to answer

 

[will10]

Well luckily I'm sure the ASO will read this forum....

 

[Culkasi]

well, I did send it to them in an email as well - surprisingly hard to find a way to contact them though

 

[TourOfSardinia]

I'm not sure it helps Janus

but by going through language gibberish hell listening to foreign feed is a good way to get to motivate learning a new language - plus once you begin to understand it you may even start share your sympathies with those foreigner riders that they keep going on about. The trickiest bit is to recognise the pronunciation of your fav rider in the new language - sometimes it can be very different!

BTW
This forum is a really great place because lot's of non-English sources flow into it in an English form. I love it.

 

[Culkasi]

I am not sure it helps either - I just think its amazing that TV in general is still defined by borders rather than interest, and we're talking 2011 here - crazy

 

[ImmaculateKadence]

Though it isn't anything I've encountered much personally, I totally agree with the OP's letter. I would also like if they expanded that for other ASO races, not just the Tour, then all major race organizers followed suit. Versus and Universal Sports do a decent job of covering most races I watch, but if they aren't televising them, I'm forced to catch the streaming Eurosport coverage. That only airs live. It would be a sweet deal if you can purchase the race online, then watch in your native language at your convenience. There have been a few times I couldn't get a stream from Eurosport and watched races in Italian, Dutch, French, etc. About all I can understand of that is rider's names.

I think at this point it's just wishful thinking though.

 

[TERMINATOR]

Dear ASO,

I have a suggestion for your TV coverage;

I should be able to buy TDF coverage in whatever language I want directly from the TDF website, and I would see the local channel coverage – that way the best coverage would be watched, and the local language channels would also be showing the best possible TV.

Its very frustrating to live abroad (which more and more do in this increasinly globalized world) and not be able to see something so important as TDF in your local language. I have grown up with watching TDF in Danish TV since I was a kid, and for me its almost as important as christmas – but living abroad I am forced to rely on good, but non-native coverage without the focus on Danish riders and results I am used to.

I hope you listen to this plea from a desperate fan – or hire me to go work for you next summer so I don’t have to worry about it.

Thank you in advance

Janus Basnov

p.s. this option would also allow you to sell races to countries where they are not currently distributed, as people could by them online and you could pass X amount on to the channel they choose to watch it from

p.p.s. Thank you for reading this and taking your time to answer

Do you have any idea how technologically difficult it is to pipe in a LIVE TV feed onto a website, let alone having enough bandwidth to accommodate all languages?

The Internet is still a toy, son.

 

[The Hitch]

Whats this some stuff about TV coverage.

Any open letter to ASO should attack them heavily on what happened on stage 1.

Voleurs.