Eurosport TV guide

Brailsford Bad

If anyone spots this can they post the link on here?
thanking ye all in advance.

argyllflyer

This is what was shown last year, just for the record:

British Eurosport commentary pairings so far in 2014:

Commentators used for .1, .HC & .WT: Declan Quigley, Carlton Kirby, Rob Hatch, Jonathan Harris-Bass, Matt Stephens, Marty MacDonald
Summarisers used for.1, .HC & .WT: Brian Smith, Matt Stephens, Sean Kelly, Magnus Backstedt, Dan Lloyd, Tony Gibb, Rob Hayles

Dubai: Quigley & Smith
Oman: Kirby (solo)
Andalucia: Hatch & Stephens
K-B-K: Hatch & Stephens
Le Samyn: Kirby & Smith
Langkawi: Hatch (first week) / Quigley (last few stages) (both solo)
Strade Bianche: Hatch & Smith
Roma Maxima: Quigley & Smith
Paris-Nice: Hatch & Kelly
Tirreno-Adriatico: Quigley & Stephens
Milan-Sanremo: Quigley & Kelly
Catalunia: Kirby & Backstedt
E3 Harelbeke: Quigley & Stephens
Criterium International: Quigley & Stephens
Three Days of De Panne: Kirby & Smith
Tour of Flanders: Kirby & Kelly
Vuelta al Pais Vasco: Kirby & Stephens
Paris-Roubaix: Kirby & Stephens
GP de Denain: Kirby & Lloyd
Tour of the Reservoir: McCrossan & Stephens
Amstel Gold Race: Kirby & Kelly
Fleche Wallonne: Kirby & Lloyd
Tour of Turkey: Kirby & Smith
Liege-Bastogne-Liege: Hatch & Kelly
4 Days of Dunkirk: Quigley & Backstedt
Tour of Azerbaijan: Hatch (solo, stage 1) / Quigley (solo, stage 2) / Harris-Bass (solo, stages 3-4) / Harris-Bass & Gibb (stage 5)
Women's Tour of Britain: Porter & Smith (syndicated - also on ITV4)
Giro d'Italia: Hatch & Kelly (with intro from Harris-Bass stage 1 and Andy Smith stages 2&3)
Wiltshire Grand Prix: McCrossan & Stephens
Tour of California: Stephens & Smith
Tour Series (all rounds): Porter & Smith (syndicated - also on ITV4)
Tour of Norway: Quigley & Backstedt
Lincoln GP: McCrossan & Stephens
World Ports Classic: MacDonald & Smith
Tour des Fjords: Stephens & Smith
Criterium du Dauphine: Kirby & Smith
Milk Race: Quigley & Tony Doyle
London Nocturne: Porter & Smith
Tour de Suisse: Quigley & Lloyd
British Road Championships: Kirby & Stephens
Tour de France: Kirby & Kelly with Harris-Bass
British Circuit Championships: Porter, Trott & Backstedt
Elite Circuit Series: McCrossan & Stephens
La Course by Le Tour: MacDonald & Ottilie Quince
Tour de Wallonnie: Stephens & Smith
Clasica San Sebastian: Quigley & Backstedt
Tour de Pologne: Kirby & Backstedt
Women's Ride London: Hatch & Smith
RideLondon-Surrey Classic: Hatch & Stephens
Eneco Tour: Kirby & Smith
Arctic Race of Norway: Hatch & Backstedt (stages 1&2) / Stephens (stages 3&4)
Circuit of the Fens: McCrossan & Stephens
USA Pro Challenge: Hatch & Backstedt
Vuelta a Espana: Kirby & Lloyd (stages 1 &2), Kelly (stages 3+)
Vattenfall Cyclassics: Quigley & Backstedt
GP Ouest-France Plouay: Quigley & Smith
Tour of Alberta: Hatch & Smith / Backstedt
Tour of Britain: Stephens & Backstedt
GP Quebec: Quigley & Stephens
GP Montreal: Hatch & Backstedt
Wallonie GP: Kirby & Backstedt
Voigt's Hour: Kirby & Backstedt
Tour de l'Eurometropole (final day): Quigley & Hayles
Il Lombardia: Stephens & Smith
Binche-Chimay-Binche: Hatch & Stephens
Tour of Beijing: Kirby & Stephens
Paris-Tours: Quigley & Lloyd
Amsterdam 6 Days: Kirby & Gibb
Saitama Criterium: Kirby & Stephens
Brandle's Hour: Quigley & Backstedt

Brailsford Bad

Thanks for the detailed response!

venster

Slightly OT, but how do people rate the Eurosport Player? Do they broadcast in HD?

I'm thinking of cutting right back on Sky, but will miss ES if I do..

Brailsford Bad

venster wrote:

Slightly OT, but how do people rate the Eurosport Player? Do they broadcast in HD?

I'm thinking of cutting right back on Sky, but will miss ES if I do..

Think i've read in the past that Eurosport player isn't all that (unless it's improved since so maybe someone else can clarify).
Have thought the same about Sky, but i would miss Eurosport. Shame you can't just pay for one channel at a time.
Heard rumours that Sky might be showing more cycle races this year, but just a rumour. Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

Anonymous

venster wrote:

Slightly OT, but how do people rate the Eurosport Player? Do they broadcast in HD?

I'm thinking of cutting right back on Sky, but will miss ES if I do..

Tried it last year whilst I was on tour, didn't get on with it at all.

argyllflyer

Brailsford Bad wrote:

venster wrote:

Slightly OT, but how do people rate the Eurosport Player? Do they broadcast in HD?

I'm thinking of cutting right back on Sky, but will miss ES if I do..

Think i've read in the past that Eurosport player isn't all that (unless it's improved since so maybe someone else can clarify).
Have thought the same about Sky, but i would miss Eurosport. Shame you can't just pay for one channel at a time.
Heard rumours that Sky might be showing more cycle races this year, but just a rumour. Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

Sky have the rights to a fair amount but choose not to use them.

They have all the Flanders Classics stable of races and show the highlights. I *think* they showed Tour of Flanders live in 2014, but there were highlights of the other five.

They have both Swiss WT races, though in 2014 TdS ended up on Eurosport for the most part. They only wanted Romandie for Froome but at least showed it live.

They have highlights of all the Italian RCS races, though Eurosport show these live.

They showed Amstel Gold and Paris-Roubaix live I think too?

There may be others I'm forgetting.

I wish Eurosport had the Flanders Classics races. Cycling.tv had most of them but seem to have stopped showing some of them live in UK now.

Gent-Wevelgem might be boring but it's a shame Sky have the rights for it but only show 30 mins of edited highlights hours after the result is known.

nweststeyn

Brailsford Bad wrote:

Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

The opposite is true, it's not weird at all! Why plaster your logo all over your own channels to viewers who already subscribe to your services? Much more effective if you advertise yourself all over every rival broadcaster possible, so buying rights to too many races would vastly reduce their exposure to potential new customers/markets.

Dippydog3

venster wrote:

Slightly OT, but how do people rate the Eurosport Player? Do they broadcast in HD?

I'm thinking of cutting right back on Sky, but will miss ES if I do..

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I watch all the cycling on my ipad. Very good feed. Good value. I ditched Sky completely.

argyllflyer

Also, forgot Sky carry Tour Down Under live for all the nocturnals out there.

Brailsford Bad

nweststeyn wrote:

Brailsford Bad wrote:

Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

The opposite is true, it's not weird at all! Why plaster your logo all over your own channels to viewers who already subscribe to your services? Much more effective if you advertise yourself all over every rival broadcaster possible, so buying rights to too many races would vastly reduce their exposure to potential new customers/markets.

Every rival broadcaster in this country being Eurosport? which is part of the Sky Sports package...

mmmmm... :?

sherer

Brailsford Bad wrote:

nweststeyn wrote:

Brailsford Bad wrote:

Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

The opposite is true, it's not weird at all! Why plaster your logo all over your own channels to viewers who already subscribe to your services? Much more effective if you advertise yourself all over every rival broadcaster possible, so buying rights to too many races would vastly reduce their exposure to potential new customers/markets.

Every rival broadcaster in this country being Eurosport? which is part of the Sky Sports package...

mmmmm... :?

I'on cable though so I have a different package. Plus Skyis going to be the brand across Europe with Sky De and Sky Italia going

nweststeyn

Brailsford Bad wrote:

nweststeyn wrote:

Brailsford Bad wrote:

Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

The opposite is true, it's not weird at all! Why plaster your logo all over your own channels to viewers who already subscribe to your services? Much more effective if you advertise yourself all over every rival broadcaster possible, so buying rights to too many races would vastly reduce their exposure to potential new customers/markets.

Every rival broadcaster in this country being Eurosport? which is part of the Sky Sports package...

mmmmm... :?

You can receive Eurosport on numerous other packages. Also, the grand tours and selected other races are covered by ITV. I really don't see much benefit to Sky buying the rights to races when it means only existing customers would see their brand plastered over the TV.

argyllflyer

The rights don't cost a huge amount however. On the Cycling Podcast a few weeks ago, Ned Boulting said that ITV got the Tour of Britain for practically nothing (literally nothing at first but he thought they now paid some sort of token amount) while apparently the promoter of the two Canadian races receives $80,000 (Canadian) for TV rights while spending well over a million filming the races (I think those were the figures).

FransJacques

Virgin carry ES. You don't necessarily need Sky. If I can dig up a bill I can tell you much the monthly is.

takethehighroad

Eurosport is on the news package on Sky, so you don't have to pay for Sports

iainf72

Brailsford Bad wrote:

Heard rumours that Sky might be showing more cycle races this year, but just a rumour. Always thought its a bit weird sponsoring and having your own team then not even showing them on TV, doesn't make sense to me at all. It's like having a corporate box at Wembley Stadium then never using it. :shock:

We've talked about this a lot in the past but there is a bigger picture at work

http://www3.ebu.ch/contents/news/2013/0 ... tners.html

For the biggest races, there is a requirement for them to be on free to air channels. Awkward for Sky, not impossible and of course things could change. But ultimately the sport is moving adverts, so if you're going to invest in it as a sponsor you want to see your brand in front of as many people as possible.

joelsim

If Sky had loads of cycle races on one of their 47 sports channels then where would they put the replay of the 1982 Bosnian Grand Prix?

RichN95.

iainf72 wrote:

We've talked about this a lot in the past but there is a bigger picture at work

http://www3.ebu.ch/contents/news/2013/0 ... tners.html

For the biggest races, there is a requirement for them to be on free to air channels. Awkward for Sky, not impossible and of course things could change. But ultimately the sport is moving adverts, so if you're going to invest in it as a sponsor you want to see your brand in front of as many people as possible.

And that's where Velon come in. It's no co-incidence that managing director is an ex-Sky TV man.

No_Ta_Doctor

That a race needs to be available free to air doesn't mean it cant also be on a pay channel. For most big races here in Denmark I have the choice of TV2 or Eurosport.

The argument that Sky don't need to broadcast because their customers have already bought their product is a little shaky, I imagine they spend a fair whack on customer retention already.

joelsim

RichN95 wrote:

iainf72 wrote:

We've talked about this a lot in the past but there is a bigger picture at work

http://www3.ebu.ch/contents/news/2013/0 ... tners.html

For the biggest races, there is a requirement for them to be on free to air channels. Awkward for Sky, not impossible and of course things could change. But ultimately the sport is moving adverts, so if you're going to invest in it as a sponsor you want to see your brand in front of as many people as possible.

And that's where Velon come in. It's no co-incidence that managing director is an ex-Sky TV man.

It's the same reason why Wiggo is still earning massive money at Sky even though he races very little. He has the ability to get coverage on all channels, he gets in the papers, he goes on chat shows, he gets on the news...

Allez Mark

Slightly OT.
Here is a calender from inring which can be downloaded. I used it last year and found it to be very useful.
http://inrng.com/2014/09/2015-pro-cycli ... -calendar/

jimmythecuckoo

Brilliant thanks for that

argyllflyer

As ever, Sky Sports are showing the Aussie stuff this week, 1.30am on Tuesday morning for stage one of TDU and they have the crit at 12.30am as a warm-up.

tailwindhome

Laura Meseguer ‏@Laura_Meseguer · 4m4 minutes ago
Todo el ciclismo en @Eurosport / #Eurosport, home of cycling! #2015season #tictac

tailwindhome

Maybe the OP or a tame Mod could edit the OP to include the pic above.

Ta

argyllflyer

Jose Been implied there's to be the usual Oman highlights package as well in Feb.

takethehighroad

Any news on the Tour of Qatar. It's my favourite race of the early season (I prefer it to Hey Volk really) and don't see it on any of the schedules?

deejay

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Any news on the Tour of Qatar. It's my favourite race of the early season (I prefer it to Hey Volk really) and don't see it on any of the schedules?

No Nufing seen with any of these until Blaze Saddles tells you where.

04.02.2015 to 07.02.2015 Tour of Dubai - 2.HC UAE
08.02.2015 to 13.02.2015 Tour of Qatar - 2.HC QAT
17.02.2015 to 22.02.2015 Tour of Oman - 2.HC OMA
19.02.2015 to 19.02.2015 Trofeo Laigueglia - 1.HC ITA
28.02.2015 to 28.02.2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 1.HC BEL

sherer

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Any news on the Tour of Qatar. It's my favourite race of the early season (I prefer it to Hey Volk really) and don't see it on any of the schedules?

Tour of Oman is usually a better race

blazing_saddles

deejay wrote:

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Any news on the Tour of Qatar. It's my favourite race of the early season (I prefer it to Hey Volk really) and don't see it on any of the schedules?

No Nufing seen with any of these until Blaze Saddles tells you where.

04.02.2015 to 07.02.2015 Tour of Dubai - 2.HC UAE
08.02.2015 to 13.02.2015 Tour of Qatar - 2.HC QAT
17.02.2015 to 22.02.2015 Tour of Oman - 2.HC OMA
19.02.2015 to 19.02.2015 Trofeo Laigueglia - 1.HC ITA
28.02.2015 to 28.02.2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - 1.HC BEL

Mmmm, could be tough for tv at least.
Bein Sports seem to have it in a lockdown atm.