Tour Down Under 2007 TV Coverage

BryanM

Straight from the 2007 TDU Website....
"Network Ten's broadcast will feature extended coverage in nightly news and Sports Tonight."
I am watching Sports Tonight right now & they put less than 1 minute about today's stage.
To me that sounds nothing like "extended coverage" & is very disappointing.
Hope it gets better over the next few days.

sogood

SBS news also had a segment. Otherwise wait for Cycling Central.

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Europa

The news coverage in Adelaide hasn't been bad - the compulsory interviews of the 'wow I've just discovered bike racing' type, Stuey's and Robbie's 'oh gawd another damn predictable lightweight question', complete with bikes rolling past in the background, all that at the start of the news service, then something of the race itself in the sports segment. OK for a news service. Otherwise though ... yeah ... um ...

Richard

limerickman

For those of you in Europe, Sky Sports 2 are showing the TDU this week.

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morelike hypocrisy.

531Aussie

I can't remember if it was the TDU or the Sun Tour, but last year ch10 had a 30min highlights bit, late at night, after the news.

steve

Cyclingnews.com have some pretty good videos here: http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/200...d=video/default

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Skull

One of the fox sports channels have a half hour on every night so far. Its on at 10:30 tonight Perth time.

matagi

Do you know which channel? Have you actually seen them 'coz all I can find are highlights at 6.30AM.

Scotttri

Fox sports 3 at 1030pm perth time

rdk

The Ch 10 coverage is pathetic: they give more time to non-sports puff pieces. The "preview" show on the weekend had an interview with Robbie from last year, but they pretended he was talking about the bike he would be riding this week. Also, Ch 9 sports had no report at all the last two days, but led the news with a story that Eddie McGuire hosting a quiz show. A pox on the lot of them.

matagi

Ok, just did a quick search on the Foxsports website and got the following....


Saturday, January 20
02:00 am - 02:30 am Cycling : Tour Down Under Day 4 Highlights FOX Sports 3
06:30 am - 07:00 am Cycling : Tour Down Under Day 4 Highlights FOX Sports 1
11:00 pm - 11:40 pm Cycling : Tour Down Under Day 5 Highlights FOX Sports 3
Sunday, January 21
07:30 pm - 09:30 pm Cycling : Tour Down Under Final Day Highlights FOX Sports 2
Tuesday, January 23
04:30 am - 06:30 am Cycling : Tour Down Under Final Day Highlights FOX Sports 3

aussiejim

I,m trying to watch videos from cyclingnews of TDU but nothing seems to happen you click on video link and then what ,WMP does,nt come up how long does it to take to download any help please

n_sumo23

hey u just need to wait a little bit say a couple of mins depending on ur net speed then press play
the videos r quite good
cya

chuckchunder

ten's coverage is so good this is the description for tomorrow's 2pm show in Perth listed as the "Jacobs Creek Tour Down Under" -

Set in beautiful Rio de Janiero we take a look at a preview of the Tour Down Under, with teams competing in ocean swimming, mountain biking, speed hang gliding and sand running legs over a gruelling course.

WTF?