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2011-04-24

Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2011

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 09:27+00:00

Liege-Bastogne-Liege 2011 is go! Here are the free TV coverage details which I’ve found so far:

RAI Sport 2 (13e) has coverage listed from 12:00 CET, which is unusually early, but the first show is something like “Eve of LBL” so live coverage might not be starting until 14:00. From 15:05 CET, it is also on RAI 3 (also 13e, so it doesn’t really add much). Highlights are on RAI Sport 2, 22:30-01:00 tonight.

Eurosport (19e) has coverage from 14:16 CET today and highlights 12:30-13:30 tomorrow.

France 3 (5w) has coverage from 15:20 CET today. Again, it seems a bit unusual to me for France 3 to be the latest start. Anyone know what’s going on in France Televisions?

Have you spotted coverage on other free-to-air satellite TV? Please, leave a comment and let the world know!

2011-03-29

Three Days of De Panne

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 10:10+00:00

Now that RAI Sport 2 (13e) has a schedule online, it’s turning into quite a haven for cycling. Today (Tue 29 March), there’s coverage of the Three Days of De Panne from 14:30-17:00 cet, with another show 22:30-23:30.

Now, it would be even better if I could find a schedule for more than just today – but given how reliable RAI’s timings aren’t, it probably doesn’t matter!

2011-03-19

Milan-San Remo

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 10:31+00:00

Live Free-to-air Satellite TV coverage of Milan-San Remo seems to be limited to RAI3 (13e) from 14:50 CET today (Saturday 19 March 2011). Highlights are on Eurosport (19e) 18:00-19:00 CET.

Please, if you spot it on any other free-to-air channels, leave me a comment or tweet @mjray or similar. I’ll check back here before the race.

2010-07-03

Tour de France 2010

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,ITV,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 04:51+00:00

And so it begins again!

itv4 (28e) has live coverage every day for the first time. Start times are between 1500 and 1700 BST, with highlights daily at 1900-2000 BST (except today when it’s at 2000), repeated the following day at 1300.

France Television is the home broadcaster and you can watch live tour coverage on France 2 (5w) most days starting at or before 1420 CET. There’s often a short programme earlier at 1250 or 1300 CET for the village départ on France 3 (5w). There’s a coverage guide in French on the France Television site. Generally, the pictures are what you’ll see used as a base by all the other broadcasters.

Italian channel RAI Due (13e) has the live stages again this year, with highlights later on RAI Sport píu (13e). Earlier in the day, RAI Sport píu is showing the Giro d’Italia femmini if you’d like to watch that.

Either the Spanish-language channels suck, my TV guides suck or both. I can’t find any free-to-air coverage from Spain at all.

In German, Eurosport (19e) has live coverage daily about the same time. Once again, expect it to have added features like Planet Armstrong: Season 2, interviews, guest summarisers and slightly irritating competitions scrolling across the bottom of the screen.

ARD and ZDF (13e and 19e) have come back to their senses after a couple of bad years. This year they’re showing live coverage, but still starting about an hour later in the stage than some broadcasters (1530 CET or so). Maybe next year will see full coverage.

Have you spotted any more free-to-air coverage? Any particularly good (or bad) presentations of the Tour? What do you love or hate about the shows? Leave a comment and praise Phil or lament Duffy Duck if you like…

2009-07-04

Tour de France

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,ITV,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 09:21+00:00

And so it begins!

itv4 (28e) has live coverage Saturday 1630-1900 BST and Sunday 1430-1630 BST, with highlights daily at 1900-2000 BST (except Saturday when it’s at 2000), repeated the following day at 1300.

Unfortunately, it seems that reruns of 60s serials are more important to itv4 than the Tour de France (home of cycling? more like a doss house it’s only allowed in at night), so we need to look at foreign channels for live coverage…

France Television is the home broadcaster and you can watch live tour coverage on France 2 (5w) most days from about 1420 CET. There’s often a short programme earlier at 1250 or 1300 CET for the village départ on France 3 (5w). I suspect the highlights are in either the France 2 Journal at 2000 CET or Tout le Sport around 2300 CET on France 3. Generally, the pictures are what you’ll see used as a base by all the other broadcasters.

Belgium’s RTBFsat (13e) is also showing tour coverage in French. In previous years, it’s been fairly similar to the French coverage, but with different commentators. If I remember correctly, a little before the stage, their show A bicyclette offers a bit of a different look around the start towns.

Italian channel RAI Due (13e) seems to have the live stages this year, with highlights later on RAI Sport píu (13e). Earlier in the day, RAI Sport píu is showing the Giro d’Italia femmini if you’d like to watch that.

Either the Spanish-language channels suck, my TV guides suck or both. I can’t find any free-to-air coverage from Spain at all.

In German, Eurosport (19e) has live coverage daily. Usually, they add more on-screen captions, picture-in-picture interviews and also magazine programmes like Planet Armstrong. Good for information, but some may find the scrolling competitions a bit distracting.

ARD and ZDF (13e and 19e) continue their love-hate relationship with le Tour. This year they’re showing live coverage, but I think starting later in the stage than other broadcasters (1630 CET or so). Hopefully this year they won’t bottle out if some drug cheats are caught during the race.

Unusually, I’ve also found RTL Tele Letzeburg (19e) showing live coverage. I don’t remember finding that before. Maybe they’re hoping to capitalise on the reduced coverage from across the border in Germany this year?

Have you spotted any more free-to-air coverage? Any particularly good (or bad) presentations of the Tour? What do you love or hate about the shows? Leave a comment and praise Phil or condemn Carsten if you like…

2009-04-25

Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 04:44+00:00

The 260km of the 95th Liege-Bastogne-Liege takes place later today. Read more on CyclingFans.com.

You can watch it live free-to-air on satellite on Eurosport at 19e from 1400-1700 CET, RAI Tre at 13e from 1505 CET or on France 3 at 5w from 1510 CET. Yet again, RTBF are sponsoring a race, but aren’t broadcasting it internationally!

Highlights are tomorrow (Monday) 1400-1530 CET on Eurosport. If you see live or highlights coverage anywhere else, please leave a comment: I’ll post any updates before the race.

Update: Added RAI info – thanks Bernie S!

2009-04-22

Flèche Wallonne

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 09:27+00:00

The 73rd Flèche Wallonne (Waloon Arrow) race from Charleroi to Huy runs in Belgium today.

It’s live on Eurosport.de at 19e from 1400-1630 CET with highlights tomorrow (Thursday) 100-1130.

The race is also live on RAI Sport più (13e) from 1445-1630, with highlights tomorrow 1300-1400. RAI are generally busier with cycling coverage at the moment: the same channel has Giro del Trentino today 1825-1855, with Cycling Real Time(?) 1745-1805 tomorrow followed by Prosecchissima 1805-1830 and Giro del Trentino 2030-2100. It’s worth keeping an eye on their 2-day teletext guide if you like the smaller races too.

The Waloon Arrow is yet another Belgian race which isn’t on RTBFsat.

2009-03-29

Paris-Nice Highlights

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,ITV,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 11:12+00:00

itv4 at 28e has Paris-Nice highlights today at 1210 BST. On satellite, there’s an itv4+1 which will show it at 1310 BST.

It seems a bit strange to show the highlights so long after the event, but maybe this suggests the start of a sequence of highlights on Sunday lunchtimes. Nothing else showing on the schedules for the next two weeks yet, though.

itv, what are you playing at?

2009-03-28

GP E3 and Flèche Brabançonne

Filed under: Coverage,Criticism,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 11:27+00:00

GP E3 is on RTBFsat at 1430 CET today (Saturday 28 March), probably live. Highlights may be on NOS Studio Sport, 21:55-22:40 CET on BVN (13e and 19e).

A comment by Bernie S asks “Does anyone know why RTBFSat are covering GP E3 on Saturday but not Flèche Brabançonne on Sun ? They have done both in previous years.”

I don’t know. There don’t even appear to be highlights on BVN – maybe Sporza or the Pijl’s organisers are asking too much?

2009-03-25

World Track Championships

Filed under: BBC,Coverage,Criticism,Eurosport,Live Events — MJ Ray @ 02:37+00:00

One of the few events with BBC coverage, the World Track Championships start today.

BBC are FTA at 28e, aimed at the UK. Generally shown in the evening. See the BBC Two and BBCi schedule – it’s interesting yet disappointing that they’re already listing September’s World Road Championships but nothing in between.

Eurosport is FTA at 19e, aimed at Europe. Generally shown in the afternoon. Eurosport Bahn-WM schedule.

RAI is FTA at 13e, aimed at Europe. Teletext listings (usually today and tomorrow). Also seems to be generally evening-time shows.

Anywhere else that you know of?

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