Tirreno-Adriatico, yet another cyling.tv failure

by Susie Hartigan on Mar 11, 2009 12:56 PM EDT

Yesterday, cycling.tv was happy to take your money for coverage of Tirreno-Adriatico.

Today (at the last minute), here's what you got for that money:

"Dear Customers We wanted to highlight that due to our live coverage of Paris-Nice this week, we will not be carrying Tirreno-Adriatico concurrently. Our objective is to deliver the best experience possible for our customers around Paris-Nice, and avoid any conflict with the live coverage, and video on demand. Tirreno-Adriatico has been a race 'to be confirmed' for some time, but we wanted to flag up our decision to focus solely on P-N in the best interests of our customers.

We hope you understand and agree with this this decision.

Thank you Cycling TV"

Translation: "Tirreno-Adriatico is one of those races for which we will take your money, but when it comes time to "confirm" the race (that is to say, when it comes time to pay for the rights to the race) we have better things to do with your money than pay for the rights to the race we promised you. You might be wondering which other races on our "calendar" fall into the category of races we advertise when selling our packages, but then fail to deliver. Don't be silly! If we told you that now, it would be harder to get your money. Watch your email on race days for any last minute announcements of non-coverage.

We hope you're fool enough to keep giving us your money.

Thank you Cycing TV"

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I reiterate...

I’ve been wondering what "COVERAGE TBC" meant on the Cycling.TV race calendar. Apparently it means "To Be Canceled".

Cycling.TV… sigh … double sigh…

Just throw a blink tag on there while you’re at it…

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 1:34 PM EDT reply actions

Good lord that's ugly.

by rocketpress on Mar 11, 2009 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions

RIGHT??!??!

How do you put together a site in 2009 that doesn’t validate!!! That’s why we’re forced to use popups, that’s why we need to use IE…

grumble grumble grumble…

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions

I've always been flabbergasted by their implementation of the client side stuff

why spend rmoney, resources on building that instead of putting the money of acquiring races, capacity testing/implementation to offer more races at better quality and that brings in customers. A branded (badly designed) client that only works on a few browsers? bad idea

by lyne on Mar 11, 2009 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions

It has to be

that it was built by somebody’s nephew or something — they’re just stupid, lazy errors.

by rocketpress on Mar 11, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Picture a conference room at C.TV HQ...

… inside must be a sign in large, friendly letters that reads: “HERE IS WHERE WE REINVENT THE WHEEL EACH AND EVERY DAY”.

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions

next to the 'market research? we don't need any market research here'

by lyne on Mar 11, 2009 4:57 PM EDT up reply actions

and on the fridge... a picture of a drooling goat with the caption "Target Customer"

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 5:29 PM EDT up reply actions

more like the jumtv crew...

…the jumptv crew saying “oh yeah, those cycling.tv guys… they still here? We still gotta support them? Isn’t The Tour de France in the summer?”

by gregm on Mar 11, 2009 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions

+1

The Tirreno-Adriatico space on the server wound up being reserved for a down market NCAA basketball match between Our Lady of the Congested Sinuses and The University of East Buttf*ck.

I’ve heard the MBA program at UEB is a real pain in the ass.

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

i was actually watching

the bigeast basketball tournament on jumptv yesterday… feed worked perfectly. I was just like WTF

by d rod on Mar 12, 2009 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey!

Egoat doesn’t drool. I’m told.

CQRanking.com, you complete me.

by Chris Fontecchio on Mar 12, 2009 2:09 PM EDT up reply actions

Does anyone else spell Cycling TV as

“WE ARE COMMITTING A HUGE FUCKING FRAUD AND NO ONE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT? BAHAHAHAHAHAHA”

Thought so

"I didn't look for him and I didn't see him. If you base your race on another rider, most of the time you lose."

Tom Boonen

by Drew Davis on Mar 12, 2009 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions

To be fair... Podium Cafe doesn't validate 100% either...

CSS: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=www.podiumcafe.com&profile=css21&usermedium=all&warning=1&lang=en

HTML: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=www.podiumcafe.com2F&charset=utf-8&doctype=XHTML+1.0+Strict&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator2F1.606

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 5:59 PM EDT reply actions

To be fair .........I have no earthly idea what you're talking about

Did your favourite rider just win Montepaschi Strade Bianch Eroica Toscana? OK then.

by Jens on Mar 11, 2009 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Imagine there was an organization that described how to build cars so that they all work relatively safely...

… and that you could X-Ray the car to “validate” it’s design against those standards.

Most websites would be … ohhh… say Volkswagen Jettas. PodiumCafe : Honda Accord.

Cycling.TV : Trabant.

Dude... why WOULDN'T Thor ride the chicken?

by crashdan on Mar 11, 2009 6:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Strange coincidence

The waiting period to get your Trabant in old East Germany was almost the same as the time it takes to log onto CTV. How weird is that?

Did your favourite rider just win Montepaschi Strade Bianch Eroica Toscana? OK then.

by Jens on Mar 11, 2009 6:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey! According to my parents I always slept increadibly well in our little Trabant

so watch it alright! Sure they couldn’t really go over 50kph without losing a wheel but it’s all we had, but I sure am hell I don’t have to drive one.

I don't know if you knew this, CTV is run by Bernard Madoff

by Phil H. on Mar 11, 2009 6:47 PM EDT up reply actions