The ProTour may be over, but there’s coverage of the category 1.1 race from Firenza-Pistoia on RAI Tre from 16:55-17:25 CET (free-to-air 13e), repeated
RAI Sport Sat (free-to-air 13e) from 21:15-21:45 CET today.
2007-10-27
Firenza-Pistoia
Cyclocross: Tabor
RAI Sport Sat (free-to-air 13e) have highlights of the second cyclocross World Cup event in Tabor, Czech Republic at 23:00 CET today. More introduction to cycling’s winter cousin on cyclingfans.com.
2007-10-21
Cyclocross: Kalthout
Damiano Cunego won yesterday’s Tour of Lombardy but it doesn’t affect the overall: Cadel Evans still tops the 2007 ProTour.
RAI Sport Sat (free-to-air 13e) have coverage of the first cyclocross World Cup event of the season from 14:55-16:00 CET today. More introduction to cycling’s winter cousin on cyclingfans.com.
2007-10-20
Giro di Lombardia
Coverage of the last ProTour cycle race of the year is live on Eurosport (free-to-air on 19e) 15.15-17.00 CET and on RaiTre (13e) 15:50-17.00 CET. Strangely, I can’t find a French station for this one.
There’s also an introduction to digital satellite TV and digital TV in general at the start of BBC’s current Click show: show times on BBC World and on BBC News24 or the video is available in some formats online. Do you have questions about free-to-air digital satellite TV? Leave me a comment – I’ll have plenty of time to reply now the ProTour season is finished.
2007-10-14
Paris-Tours
Today sees the 101st Paris-Tours race, the last-but-one ProTour race. It’s showing on Eurosport (free-to-air at 19 east), France 3 (FTA at 5 west) 15:15-17:00 CET, Rai Tre (FTA 13e) 15:30-18:10 CET. If you know of other broadcasters showing the race, please leave me a comment.
RAI Sport Sat (FTA 13e) repeat Paris-Tours tomorrow at 16:00 CET and show highlghts of the Giro dell’Emilia today at 13:40-14:20, and Gran Premio Beghelli 19:30-20:00.
2007-10-05
Memorial Cimurri
RAI Sport Sat (free-to-air to Europe at 13 east) have highlights of the third Memorial Cimurri today (Saturday) at 21:30 CET.
2007-09-29
World Masters Coverage 2
In addition to the BBC and Eurosport coverage posted before, I’ve spotted the World Championships free-to-air on ZDF (some point between 12:47 and 18:00 CET tomorrow) and SWR (highlights today, but they seem to be the host broadcaster…) and SLO2 too.
RAI3 also shows it in the programme guide, but didn’t seem to cover all of the time trial…
2007-09-24
World Masters
The UCI Road World Masters are showing on Eurosport and BBCi.
BBC have posted the BBCi schedule in a handy form. (Thanks BBC!) Most BBCi video channels are visible to most of Western Europe at 28 east (instead of the UK-centric beam that is used for BBC Two and the other national channels).
Eurosport’s site still won’t give simple listings, so here’s their schedule for the free-to-air channel at 19 east as far as I can make out:
Wed 26.09.2007 – ITT Women 16:00-17:30 CET
Thu 27.09.2007 – ITT Men Under 23 11:30-12:30 CET, highlights? 12:30-14:00 CET, ITT Men 16:00-17:00 CET
Fri 28.09.2007 – ITT Men 13:15-14:00 CET
Sat 29.09.2007 – highlights? 09:00-12:45 CET, Men U23 16:15-18:00 CET
Sun 30.09.2007 – Women 09:00-0930 CET, Men 10:30-14:00 CET, Men (highlights?) 16:00-17:30 CET
Mon 01.10.2007 – highlights? 15:15-16:15 CET
I think it will also be on RAI Tre at 13 east, but I don’t know if that will be free-to-air. Show times should appear here the day before broadcast.
Which other free-to-air satellite broadcasters are showing this?
2007-09-17
Vuelta a España – final week
Eurosport coverage of Vuelta a España at 19 east continues with commentary in English (analogue only) and German. Scheduled times:-
- Mon 17.09.2007
- (no show, rest day)
- Tue 18.09.2007
- 16:00-17:30 CET
- Wed 19.09.2007
- 09:00-09:30 and 16:00-17:30 CET
- Thu 20.09.2007
- 15:00-15:45 and 15:45-17:30 CET
- Fri 21.09.2007
- 16:15-17:30 CET
- Sat 22.09.2007
- 16:00-17:45 CET
- Sun 23.09.2007
- 17:15-18:00 CET
TVEi are broadcasting in Spanish at 13 and 19 east. Scheduled times:-
- Mon 17.09.2007
- (no show, rest day)
- Tue 18.09.2007 to Sun 23.09.2007
- 16:40-18:00 CET
Enjoy the finale!
2007-09-16
Tour of Britain
Just a quick reminder that the BBC’s only Tour of Britain highlights show is on BBC 2 at 12:30 today (Astra 2D at 28 east, the same satellite as Sky UK+IE, but no subscription required).
Official listings say this is highlights of the final stage but hopefully it will cover the other stages too.
Hopefully, live coverage will get better next year, either online as cyclingfans editor Pete predicts or on TV.
