Nov 3, 2005

Tour of California: More Deets


Some more details out in the news about the Tour of California. Other than Amgen being the title sponsor, ESPN2 will return to broadcasting cycling by showing daily one hour recaps during the race.
–cycling on tv rant –
Glad to see that more than one network is interested in cycling. This also helps to weaken the PBR style hold that OLN has on cycling. Even though they have the rights to many races, they either do not show them, or show them one month or more after they are over. The Giro di Lombardia is going to be on OLN on November 20th. To the uninitiated, that is well more than one month after the race happened and the results well know. What kind of ratings does OLN expect for an event that is one month after the fact and heavily edited, plus with numerous show promos and commercials thrown in? Try doing that with any American sport and see what results you get.
–end cycling on tv rant–

There are more details on the race at cyclingnews and velonews.

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  • Velonews used to be behind cyclingnews in posting some content /pics. Today Velonews has pics of the team presentation, cyclingnews doesn't. 4 hrs ago
  • The real issues behind cyclingnews.com were not having rss feeds. The old layout allowed for more content to show. 4 hrs ago
  • At first I kinda liked it...but the new cyclingnews.com is pretty much like velonews.com now with all the same stories and similar layout. 4 hrs ago
  • @Maxpowercc Rumor is that Bruyneel and Armstrong are not part of Astana as of September as Vino returns http://bit.ly/176FcB in reply to Maxpowercc 4 hrs ago
  • @Maxpowercc it may be announced during the Tour, but I think they need another cash paying sponsor. in reply to Maxpowercc 4 hrs ago
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