Tells us what cycling is coming up on TV....

[Dogtrousers]

So effectively we have to start paying for the football in order to continue getting the cycling. Is that about the size of it?

 

[Cathryn]

Just doing the maths. If I subscribe from now till the end of July (so stop after the TdFF) it’ll cost me £224. So I need to cancel Zwift and stop my weekly Friday coffee treat and I can just about balance it out!
They are so greedy. I’m furious!

Anyone know any free smart trainer websites I can use instead of Zwift?

 

[Mike_P]

Bye bye Discovery, hello Youtube highlight packages

 

[13 rider]

I was literally about to sign up for discovery + yesterday but I saw the article on cycling news I was even unsure about the £6.99 price as I would only watch the cycling but £30 they can go away and I will keep my money and make do with highlights on YouTube

 

[MasterDabber]

Just seen all this ES stuff. But haven't been following all the GCN/Disco+ stuff at all. I have ES 1 and 2 as part of my Virgin package. Is this being affected by all of these changes?

 

[OldShep]

I feel ill after reading that news How Much !!
Asking the experts out there might getting a VPN and accessing other countries FTA be a way forward?

 

[Dogtrousers]

Just seen all this ES stuff. But haven't been following all the GCN/Disco+ stuff at all. I have ES 1 and 2 as part of my Virgin package. Is this being affected by all of these changes?

As far as I can tell ES will cease to exist in the UK

https://www.cyclist.co.uk/news/eurosport-tnt-sports-premium

 

[MasterDabber]

Just answering my own question. I now understand that ES will disappear from my Virgin package at the end of February but I can still get it if I pay an extra £18/month. Stuff that.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Just answering my own question. I now understand that ES will disappear from my Virgin package at the end of February but I can still get it if I pay an extra £18/month. Stuff that.

but from the above - that means EuroSport without the cycling??

FFS are they just trying to get rid of all cycling in the country?
I thought "they" were trying to encourage cycling but now the powers-that-be (AKA big companies) seem to want to make everyone pay huge amount for every single sprt

I already pay for Sky Sports - which is mostly football - just to watch the Formula 1
not they want me to pay several hundred a year more to watch cycling!

The way it is going I am going to need my Old Age Pension next year - and it will all go on TV subscriptions!
(or I can say "stuff it" and go out and actually cycle instead!)

it does all make me think about VPNs and all that stuff - I mean, it might be illegal but after they start charging a certain amount it is almost like they are encouraging or enabling it (not the right legal words - but you know what I mean - bit like an ex- president getting people to invade a government building maybe)

 

[Dogtrousers]

I wonder, I thought, would it be cheaper to get TNT via my Sky subscription. And yes, it would. Instead of £30.99/mo it would cost me a mere £30/mo. A saving of 99p a month. Woo.

But think of the benefits. I'd get the football. Jolly good. The last time I watched a football match was sitting in a hotel in Bradford in about 1996. So I'm not terribly excited about that. I'd get moto GP (that's motorbikes right?) boxing, UFC whatever that is and NBA which I think is basketball. Zero interest in any of that lot.

👎

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I wonder, I thought, would it be cheaper to get TNT via my Sky subscription. And yes, it would. Instead of £30.99/mo it would cost me a mere £30/mo. A saving of 99p a month. Woo.

But think of the benefits. I'd get the football. Jolly good. The last time I watched a football match was sitting in a hotel in Bradford in about 1996. So I'm not terribly excited about that. I'd get moto GP (that's motorbikes right?) boxing, UFC whatever that is and NBA which I think is basketball. Zero interest in any of that lot.

👎

Yup - that is the problem - I object to paying loads of money to be able to get a load of sports coverage that I have a negative amount if interest in
just to get a couple of races I am interested in

If I could be sure the coverage would be good then I might consider it - but i have seen so many races where you can either watch the whole race from start to finish
or get "highlights" where they just cut into the whole race commentary so you have no clue as to even who is in the race

I watched one race a few years ago and I thought it must be some minor 2nd or 3rd division type race because there wasn't a single name I recognised.
This continued for about 40 minutes
and then suddenly the "big boys" decided it was getting close to the final climb and suddenly the front was full of rider I knew well.
Zero coverage of them up to them



anyway - we shall see
I will be watching this thread so if anyone has any ways of watching it at a reasonable price- and preferably legally - then I will be interested to hear about it

 

[Mo1959]

Sadly no way I am paying over thirty quid just to watch cycling. Oh well, it’ll save me sitting on my arse watching telly and do something more productive instead.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Remember the good old days of GCN Plus early bird being about £25 a year or something like that. Sigh.

 

[Spartak]

Remember the good old days of GCN Plus early bird being about £25 a year or something like that. Sigh.

That was a bargain ... 👍
This new price hike is staggering.

Will look into streaming from the EU ?

 

[mjr]

Remember the good old days of GCN Plus early bird being about £25 a year or something like that. Sigh.

Those were not the good old days. Those offers were the bait, as I told you at the time. Now WB have cornered most of the rights, the price gets optimised to extract the most from the most. Enjoy it 🐑🐑🐑