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2009-08-29

Vuelta a Espana

Filed under: Coverage,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 12:25+00:00

Brian wrote in “As expected the Vuelta is being shown on Eurosport.de starting Sat. but it seems it will also be shown live on Spanish channel TVEinternational (19E) – currently listed for Sat and Sun so far.”

TVEI is on a wide range of satellites with show times apparently only published a few days ahead, for the second year running.

Eurosport has Vuelta shows in the late afternoon most days.

Who else is covering this race free-to-air? RAI Sport pìu (13e) seems to prefer the Giro del Veneto at 1900 CET today.

2009-08-21

Tour of Ireland

Filed under: Coverage,Eurosport,ITV,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 06:02+00:00

Just a small note to anyone monitoring this feed to go look at the Tour of Ireland details over on our parent site cyclingfans.com. As well as itv4 (28e #ukfreetv) at 1900 BST, it’s also on Eurosport Germany (19e) about 0000 CET.

2009-08-14

Vattenfalls

Filed under: Coverage,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 10:02+00:00

Bernie S writes in too: “The Vattenfalls race in Hamburg on Sunday is on both Eurosport and RAI Sport piu from 1545 cet”

This is a race that I usually miss and it looks like I’ll miss it again this year. Is it any good?

ENECO Tour

Filed under: Coverage,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 06:40+00:00

BrianL wrote in “The ENECO Tour is being shown on RTBF Sat from 18-25 August (c 1300/1330 UK time or 1400/1430 CET). How will Britain’s Bradley Wiggins fare after his great ride in the TdF?”

I hope he’ll do quite well. Is the ENECO Tour what used to be the Benelux Tour, or is that different?

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…

2009-06-24

Italian and French National Championships

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

anthony wrote in “Spotted the Italian Champs on Rai Tre [13e] Sunday 16.00 CET. Also spotted French Champs on France 3 [5w] at 15.15 CET.”

Good spots, thanks.

2009-06-13

Tour de Suisse

Filed under: Coverage,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 07:10+00:00

BrianL writes in: “Coming up soon will be the Tour de Suisse which will be shown on German Sports Channel D:SF (FTA on 19e). Timings listed on their website as below.

Samstag, 13. Juni, 18.30 Uhr
1. Etappe: Mauren/LIE – Ruggell/LIE (7,8 km) Höhepunkte

Sonntag, 14. Juni, 19.30 Uhr
2. Etappe: Davos – Davos (150 km) Höhepunkte

Dienstag, 16. Juni, 17.00 Uhr
4. Etappe: Biasca – Stäfa (197 km) LIVE

Mittwoch, 17. Juni, 18.00 Uhr
5. Etappe: Stäfa – Serfaus/AUT (202 km) LIVE

Donnerst., 18. Juni, 18.00 Uhr
6. Etappe: Oberriet – Bad Zurzach (178 km) LIVE

Samstag, 20. Juni, 17.30 Uhr
8. Etappe: Le Sentier – Crans-Montana (182 km) LIVE

Sonntag, 21. Juni, 17.00 Uhr
9. Etappe: Einzelzeitfahren in Bern (39 km) LIVE

All the timings seem a little bit late for live transmission.”

2009-06-06

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

Filed under: Coverage,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 01:30+00:00

The Dauphiné Libéré is traditionally a warm-up race for some of the Tour de France contenders. Watch it free-to-air on Eurosport Germany (19e): Sunday has stage one highlights 18:00-19:00, then live coverage on Monday from 15:15, Tuesday-Thursday from 16:00, Friday from 15:00, Saturday from 15:30 and the final Sunday from 15:15. Generally highlights shows are around midnight or 10:00 the following morning. All times CET.

If you spot the race on other free satellite TV, please leave me a comment. Of course, get your online coverage at cyclingfans.com.

2009-05-11

Giro d’Italia

Filed under: Coverage,Eurosport,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 08:54+00:00

RAI has the best coverage on 13 east: RAI Tre around 15:00-17:30 CET daily live coverage. Extra features and weekend extra live coverage are on RAI Tre and RAI Sport Sat.

Eurosport Germany is on 19 east 15:00-17:30 CET daily live coverage, but will be often delayed and cut short by tennis live coverage from the French Open once that starts. Highlights are on around midnight CET daily.

Have you seen coverage on other free TV stations? Please send a comment.

2009-05-05

Les 4 jours de Dunkerque

Filed under: Coverage,Live Events,Road racing — MJ Ray @ 10:13+00:00

Les 4 jours de Dunkerque are broadcast on Direct8 (13e, 19e) at the end of the week: Friday 8 May 15:20, Saturday 9 May 15:40, Sunday 10 May 15:45, all CET. Only three days of this six-day four-day race(???) are broadcast.

See also Direct8’s event web page and cyclingfans’s main preview.

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