Versus announces LIVE HD coverage of the Tour of California
by Jimbo... on Jan 19, 2011 6:26 PM EST
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PrintThis is good news. Live coverage is better than delayed coverage, and HD on my television is better than low def streaming crap. They also announced that Versus has signed a "multi-year agreement". Now I am not a lawyer, so keep that in mind, but my expectation is that such an agreement constitutes a rock solid guarantee that Lance will come back from retirement each year and ride the ToC naked, on fire, while juggling flaming chain saws. Pause and consider how cool that would look in HD...
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would they at least get brian and anthony to do the commentary? and, no commercials would be nice.
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
HD coverage … Henri Desgrange coverage?
pounding along in three ratios like a sonata
like a Ritter with pommelled scrotum atra cura on the step
Botticelli from the fork down pestling the transmission
tires bleeding voiding zeep the highway
Hors Delai?
Sounds like bad news to me.
Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger...
by TheFigurehead on Jan 19, 2011 7:06 PM EST up reply actions
I'm happy about this.
I’m sure you all were wondering…
"I briefly played on a soccer team where we took great joy yelling 'come on fuschia'" by Willj
Cool! I wish Universal would broadcast in HD.
I love it that they’re on TV at all, but the broadcasts are terrible quality—like internet feeds blown up too much.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
Don't have the bandwidth
Their broadcast operation operates in a sliver of spectrum (which is what makes their broadcast possible). I suppose they could do something different for cable, but they’d probably have to renegotiate most of their carriage agreements (with the cable systems). Hey, maybe this Comcast thing could result in some good after all.*
*Don’t hold your breath.
Levi just call.
He needs guarantee win in writing!
"I love bike races warm up, warm down, cobbles mountains or flats."
perezbike
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Versus announces LIVE HD coverage of the Tour of California (unless it's slightly rainy)
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
(or unless there's NHL pregame coverage that needs to be aired)
I sit in a cubicle and design cubicles all day.
by soft relaunch on Jan 20, 2011 10:36 AM EST up reply actions
They will be using the same TV production team as the TdF
One of the perks of having a partnership with ASO
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
That doesn't mean they will be motivated to work as hard
especially being French…
"I just want to say fuck you, and I mean that in the most professional way" -Brandon Llyod
SAVE CHAUNCEY!!!!
No coverage of Flanders
I checked out vs. schedule for cycling this year. No Flanders. They had it last year. Also after the tour they pretty much quit. They used to show the vuelta. I would like to see them cover the Giro and more of the end of season races. On a side note, world cycling is not releasing the 2010 giro on DVD. One of the best giros in years and they are not putting it out. Does anyone know whats up with this?
Universal picked up the Vuelta--they couldn't both have it.
Universal also snagged the Giro, and has it and the Vuelta again for 2011.
Don’t know about Flanders or the DVD thing.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
versus(oln) hasn't shown the vuelta since 2004, pretty much stopped with the giro in 2005
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jan 20, 2011 11:02 AM EST up reply actions
ahhhh...the good old days of OLN and live Vuelta and Giro coverage...
those were fun time wolverine!!!
regarding the 2010 giro and wcp, rcs asking price was too high for the italian bundle (giro, msr, gdl)
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jan 20, 2011 11:05 AM EST up reply actions
So Universal Sports can afford it but Versus can't?
Doesn’t sound right.
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
wcp (world cycling productions), and universal sports has/had (supposedly) deeper pockets (nbc universal parent company) than versus (comcast)
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
by umwolverine on Jan 20, 2011 11:09 AM EST up reply actions
oh, please, don't remind me
"Wizard's first rule. People are stupid. They will believe anything they want to be true or fear to be true." -- Terry Goodkind
Well, Armstrong rode Flanders last year....
I don’t get Versus, so I am happy for all the races that fall to Universal Sports
"Oh man, it’s going to take days to kill all these people!"
HD no big deal
Except for sports . Eurosport does races in both regular and HD and HD is very nice for the details
moo
As someone who remembers the TBGL,
(the Time Before Greg Lemond)
having the Vuelta and Giro coming over the free airwaves in the SF Bay Area is just super wonderful.
But probably they won’t let the Schlangman out of the bunker even for this and the announcing will not be as good as the 2 GTs. it’s just too much to ask.
Plus, won’t this conflict with the Giro Coverage? Awesome – they will be doing 5/6 hours of live cycling coverage daily for a week!
The Giro will be over each day hours before the ToC coverage starts
Jens! Voigt puts the 'laughter' in 'manslaughter'
oh boy!
Does this mean we’ll get live HD coverage of crashdan and Jimbo running alongside the peloton hand-in-hand in nothing but their thongs?
There won't be enough room on the fainting couch for all of us.
It definitely got played into the ground. Even I was flinching after a while--Tyler Farrar, on that Transitions ad.
What's a pederast, Walter?
"Your not going won't unbreak her arm."
by Drew Davis on Jan 20, 2011 11:15 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
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