How to find Belgium TV coverage

[Lones1]

Can Belgium Tour de France coverage be viewed online? My daughter was in Paris for the final of the TDf and tells me she was on Belgium TV. So nosey me wants to have a look (I am still sulking because I couldn't be there this year too ). Does anyone know what channels air in Belgium and if they can be viewed online

Thanks

Lones1

 

[L'arriviste]

Can Belgium Tour de France coverage be viewed online? My daughter was in Paris for the final of the TDf and tells me she was on Belgium TV. So nosey me wants to have a look (I am still sulking because I couldn't be there this year too ). Does anyone know what channels air in Belgium and if they can be viewed online

Thanks

Lones1

There were two national Belgian channels covering the Tour according to the linguistic flavour: Sporza (NL) and RTBF (FR). They broadcast certain live events online, including for example the Tour de France and all the Classics, but it's not an always-on service and it's geo-restricted to Belgium at source (I know the Dutch also get Sporza but this might be via the TV rather than the Internet). RTBF also tends to broadcast a lot less events than Sporza.

However, if you go looking on the Internet, you should still be able to find relayed feeds at the time of the relevant events that some enthusiasts have kindly set up to circumvent these restrictions.

 

[Lones1]

Thank you L'arriviste

Now I have some names I will get onto Google. I sent my daughter a lot of stupid Aussie items, hat, tie, false fingernails, baloons, tattoos etc and now I want to see how silly she looked...

Cheers for your help

Lones1

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Was she on a post-race program, or live during the race?

For Dutch speaking Belgian TV (Sporza):
http://cyclingtorrents.nl/details.php?id=5091 here you can download the race report + podium ceremonies (torrents -> pm me if you want more details of how to download)
RTBF (french speaking) race report can be streamed (some post race program included): http://www.rtbf.be/tv/revoir/detail...-TISCC001-020-PR-1&serieId=11-TISCC001-000-PR

But if it was specific Belgian TV, i suppose it was on a post-race program.
Some clips from sporza can be find here (shouldn't be georestricted): http://www.sporza.be/cm/sporza/videozone (Tour>tour 2011, vive le velo>zondag 24 juli)
Some RTBF clips (mostly post-race interviews): http://www.rtbf.be/sport/cyclisme/tourdefrance/videos#videos

 

[Buffalo Soldier]

Maybe it's this you're looking for: it's a news item from an other tv-channel about Australian supporters in Paris:
http://vtm.be/nieuws/sport/70336-australie-boven-in-parijs

 

[Lones1]

Hi Buffalo Soldier

I am not sure, she was only there on the last day and I assumed it was post race, but might have been pre race. She said she was also on radio, so assume she was interviewed, but not sure if it was all at the same time. If it was two different episodes, then she must have looked really silly to attract that much attention.... If so, mission completed, I made her look ridiculous, my job is done....

Thanks so much for the links, I will check them out now. I so hope I can find her, she will never live it down if I do....

Thanks again

Lones

 

[Lones1]

Maybe it's this you're looking for: it's a news item from an other tv-channel about Australian supporters in Paris:
http://vtm.be/nieuws/sport/70336-australie-boven-in-parijs

Awesome..........That's the one, thank you so much . Now I just have to work out how to download it....

Cheers for all your help, now I'm off to google translate the word boven, it doesn't sound very nice.....

Thanks so much

Lones1