Dave Fisher wrote in:
“Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, Starts on RAI Sports Più, Tue 24 Mar 2009, 1700-1745 CET.
Looks like same channel and similar times until the race finishes on Sat, 28 Mar 2009”
Thanks Dave! You spotted that a few days before I would have!
In other news, where’s the Castilla y Leon FTAsat coverage? Not on Eurosport, not on TVEi…
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.
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.
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!
Monte Paschi Eroica, RAI Sports Più, Sat, 07 Mar 2009, 1945-2040 CET. See http://www.rai.it/dl/portale/GuidaProgrammi.html
Thanks to Dave F again. At least I spotted Paris-Nice before anyone emailed me (details coming right up).
Trofeo Laigueglia on RAI Sports Più, Sat, 21 Feb 2009, 2000-2045 CET
Giro di Sardegna on RAI Sports Più, Tue, 24 Feb 2009, 1715-1900 CET
See The RAI TV Guide.
Thanks to Bernie S and Dave F for the tip-offs. Please leave a comment if you see these races on free TV elsewhere!
The Tour of California, created in 2006, rivals the Tour of Georgia as the top US cycling race. The increased interest this year is driven by its position on Lance Armstrong’s comeback trail.
Eurosport (FTA at 19e) is covering this race for the first time in 2009. Listing magazines disagree on the exact show times, but coverage usually seems to start after 23:00 CET, with some highlights shows around 14:00 or 15:00 CET the following day.
Have you seen coverage on other channels? Let me know in the comments, please.
Challenge Majorca from Sunday 8 February to Thursday 12 February is on Direct 8 (13e and 19e) and IB Sat (30w).
Thanks to BernieS for the pointers – Direct8 popped up on my usual French cycling coverage monitor but I don’t have a good one for Spain.
Just as a side note, both channels have internet video streams that actually play on my GNU/Linux-based TV viewer. Several others never have. I’ll probably watch over satellite still, but will 2009 be the year that online video channels get their heads in gear and stop messing it up with Internet-Explorer-only Javascript+Flash rubbish?
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!)
And now, the end is near… Saturday’s Tour of Lombardy is the last major classic of the season. It will be shown on RAI Tre (13e) from 1555 CET and Eurosport Germany (19e) from 1515 CET, with highlights at 1000 and 1315 CET on Monday.
I expect the earlier parts to be on RAI Sport Piu and other free-to-air satellite channels too – leave a comment if you spot them, please!
CyclingFans Main Site Yet-to-be-published Coverage Tips Recent Bookmarks MJ Ray’s Recent UtteringsPowered by WordPress