I think GP Indurain is on etbsat (19e – ident EUSKADI TV) from 1555-1745 CET, but the listings aren’t working properly for me. (Thanks to Bernie S for the tip.)
2009-04-04
2009-03-28
Critérium international
Critérium international is live on Sunday 29 March, 1515-1620 CET on France 3, which is FTA at 5w.
GP E3 and Flèche Brabançonne
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
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?
2009-03-19
Milan-San Remo
The 298km spring Classicissima takes place on Saturday 21st Mar 2009.
Coverage on free-to-air satellite includes Eurosport.de (at 19e), 1550-1715 CET and RAI Tre (13e), 1450-1550 CET (RAI listings – thanks to Dave Fisher). I think that last year it also appeared on itv4 on a Monday evening, but I can’t see it there yet!
If you see it on another channel, leave a comment, please.
2009-03-12
Tirreno-Adriatico
For some reason, I didn’t spot this one coming until the main cyclingfans site started covering it. As is probably obvious to everyone by now, this Italian race is on both RAI Tre and Rai Sport pìu. See today and tomorrow’s coverage times from Teletext.
2009-03-02
Paris-Nice
Here’s the free-to-air satellite details for the first big French cycle race of the year. Please add any updates in the comments, particularly any UK coverage.
Sunday 9 March – 15:10 France 3, Amilly – Amilly 9km ITT (highlights 00:50 CET Eurosport)
Monday 9 March – 14:45-16:30 CET Eurosport, Saint-Brisson-sur-Loire – La Chapelle-Saint-Ursin
Tuesday 10 March – 14:45-16:30 CET Eurosport, Orval – Vichy (highlghts 13:30 CET Wednesday)
Wednesday 11 March – 14:30-16:30 CET Eurosport, Vichy – Saint-Étienne
Thursday 12 March – 14:30-16:30 CET Eurosport, Annonay – Vallon-Pont-d’Arc
Friday 13 March – 14:30-16:30 CET Eurosport, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – La Montagne de Lure
Saturday 14 March – 14:30-16:30 CET Eurosport and France 2, Manosque – Fayence
Sunday 15 March – 13:25-15:20 CET France 3, Nice-Nice 119km (highlights 15:35-16:30 CET Eurosport, repeated Monday 14:00)
Eurosport means the German free-to-air channel at 19e, France 2 and France 3 are the free-to-air versions at 5w. I’m pretty sure it won’t be on RTBF-Sat or live on itv4, but I suspect it may be on RAI Sport Pìu live. Please leave a comment if you spot it first!
2009-02-02
Tour of Qatar
It’s the start of the 2009 live free TV coverage and while we’re freezing our backsides off here in northern Europe, the pro cyclists are off in the middle east for the ASO-linked Tour of Qatar.
Eurosport has a mixture of live and recorded coverage at 19e (digital in German, analogue with German and English audio), with coverage starting at 12:30 on Monday, 14:30 Tuesday, 12:30 Wednesday, then 13:00 Thursday and Friday. All times CET.
More coverage is over on CyclingFans.com (but if you’re watching highlights on Eurosport, you may want to take care what you read!)
2007-09-12
Tour of Britain – stage 2: Taunton
As mentioned yesterday, I went to watch the Tour of Britain for real in Taunton.
It’s taken me a while to encode these (I’ll write about the technical details on another page soon), but here are the videos. They’re in the super-cool Ogg Theora format, in case that helps you update your media player with filters like these. (I probably should do some clever tricks to embed these videos in the page, but it’s taken me long enough to get this far, so please either download the files or drag-and-drop the links to your media player. If anyone can explain how to embed videos simply, please leave me a comment…)
First of all, I went to Staplegrove Road, where I thought the peloton might slow slightly to get past a roundabout on their first pass through Taunton (Ogg, 514K) a bit after 11am, but they didn’t really.
Then I got a brilliant position in the second row just by the finish line, which meant I didn’t see the big crash of the day until I saw the TV news in the evening, but I did see both the main sprints, for the stage win (Ogg 919K) and the yellow-jersey group (Ogg 382K).
Finally, I went and watched the presentations – the yellow jersey (Ogg 1.3M) and the champagne spray (Ogg 643K) are shown here.
The BBC has the broadcast rights to the tour of Britain and seem to be doing a terrible job:
Live race news seems to be limited to a quick mention in the half-hourly sports bulletins on Radio Five (on satellite Astra 2D at 28 east to much of north-west Europe, or Medium Wave 909 and 693kHz).
Each night, there’s a short (3 minutes?) summary report in the BBC1 TV news of that stage’s region, some time after 18:30 BST (so tonight in West Midlands, tomorrow Yorkshire and North Midlands, Friday North-west and Saturday Scotland, all Astra 2D). This is not shown on BBC News 24, as far as I’ve seen, not even in the Sportsday show.
There will be one national highlights show on BBC 2 at 14:30 on Sunday (again, Astra 2D), the day after the race has finished. Official listings say this is highlights of the final stage but hopefully it will cover the other stages too.
I feel they should take the rights away from the BBC and give ITV a chance. We had better coverage of this year’s Tour of Ireland (from itv4) than we have of the Tour of Britain – this is silly.
For non-TV coverage details, including Twitter, see CyclingFans.com
