Canada - Best TV Station for Tour de France ??

CBS is excellent, as it has one FULL hour of coverage every
week?!!!??

Have fun!??!?!?!?

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I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
covering the Tour

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France best ? Is there anyone covering it from start to
finish each

day ? I

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will order today, once I find out which one to order!

Thank you

I had hoped that one of the major sports networks would be
carrying it. OLN I believe is the only station (Vancouver,
Channel 49) which I don't get. If CBC is only showing one
hour's worth a week, it would appear that I won't be
seeing it at all. The doping rumours aren't helping to
make it a must see.

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I had hoped that one of the major sports networks would be
carrying it. OLN I believe is the only station (Vancouver,
Channel 49) which I don't get. If CBC is only showing one
hour's worth a week, it would appear that I won't be
seeing it at all. The doping rumours aren't helping to
make it a must see.

Hello fellows:

What I thinking about was an ESPN sports "TYPE" channel that
show the Tour de France from start to finish with
interesting stories during the ride ?!

Am I dreaming in techno-colour -🙂

Jiyang Chen said:

CBS is excellent, as it has one FULL hour of coverage
every week?!!!??

One FUUL hour (Less the commercials, recaps of what they
showed the previous week, and bits on French tourist
attractions).

Art Harris

try and see if they have "canal evasion"
.(canalevasion.comcanalevasion.comOpen ↗).. last year they had a few
hours a day of live feed from france with a local Quebec
commentator who pretty much knew his stuff

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I had hoped that one of the major sports networks would
be carrying it. OLN I believe is the only station
(Vancouver, Channel 49) which I don't get. If CBC is
only showing one hour's worth a week, it would appear
that I won't be seeing it at all. The doping rumours
aren't helping to make it a must see.

Hello fellows:

What I thinking about was an ESPN sports "TYPE" channel
that show the Tour de France from start to finish with
interesting stories during the ride ?!

Am I dreaming in techno-colour -🙂

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I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
covering the Tour de France best ? Is there anyone
covering it from start to finish each day ?

I

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will order today, once I find out which one to order!

We're on cable, and OLN has it. Last year we were on holiday
on PEI and followed the tour on Satellite no problem.

Jim Flom

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I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
covering the Tour de France best ? Is there anyone
covering it from start to finish each day

?

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I

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will order today, once I find out which one to order!

We're on cable, and OLN has it. Last year we were on
holiday on PEI and followed the tour on Satellite no
problem.

Jim Flom

Hi,

What does OLN stand for ?

Are u on Bell Vu Express ? If so, which group of channels
does it come in ?

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try and see if they have "canal evasion"

.(canalevasion.comcanalevasion.comOpen ↗)..

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last year they had a few hours a day of live feed from
france with a local Quebec commentator who pretty much
knew his stuff

Looks french...

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I had hoped that one of the major sports networks
would be carrying

it.

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OLN I believe is the only station (Vancouver, Channel
49) which I

don't

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get. If CBC is only showing one hour's worth a week,
it would appear that I won't be seeing it at all. The
doping rumours aren't helping

to

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make it a must see.

Hello fellows:

What I thinking about was an ESPN sports "TYPE" channel
that show the

Tour

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de France from start to finish with interesting stories
during the ride

?!

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Am I dreaming in techno-colour -🙂

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I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
covering the Tour de France best ? >

It's on OLN, live daily coverage. Check out their website
for a broadcast schedule:

www.facetheelements.com

My preference is to record the live feed in the morning and
FF the commercials later that day. The evening broadcast is
an edited package that tends to hint at the stage result, to
me anyway.

Don't bother subscribing for anything but the tour (unless
you really like fishing shows). Canadian OLN does not
carry any other cycling, unlike American OLN which has
quite a bit.

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"Churchill" wrote ...

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I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
covering the Tour de France best ? Is there anyone
covering it from start to finish each day

?

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I

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will order today, once I find out which one to order!

We're on cable, and OLN has it. Last year we were on
holiday on PEI and followed the tour on Satellite no
problem.

Jim Flom

Hi,

What does OLN stand for ?

Outdoor Life Network tsn.caolnOpen ↗

J. Spaceman

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What does OLN stand for ?

See Jason's response for this.

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Are u on Bell Vu Express ? If so, which group of channels
does it come in

?

I'm not. I'm running Shaw Cable in BC. The channel I get it
on would not be helpful. Not sure whether the OLN on PEI was
USA or C. ;-)

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> I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
> covering the Tour

de

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> France best ? Is there anyone covering it from start
> to finish each

day

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?

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I
> will order today, once I find out which one to order!

We're on cable, and OLN has it. Last year we were on
holiday on PEI

and

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followed the tour on Satellite no problem.

Jim Flom

Hi,

What does OLN stand for ?

Outdoor Life Network tsn.caolnOpen ↗

So OLN is actually TSN on Bell Express Vu ??

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I had hoped that one of the major sports networks would be
carrying it. OLN I believe is the only station (Vancouver,
Channel 49) which I don't get. If CBC is only showing one
hour's worth a week, it would appear that I won't be
seeing it at all. The doping rumours aren't helping to
make it a must see.

Here in Quebec we have "canal evasion" which basically has
the same coverage as OLN but with french commentators.
Most cable companies here carry that channel so if you
don't get Oln you can see it on Evasion. I get both on my
cable package.

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> > I am on Bell Vu Express Satellite, what station is
> > covering the

Tour

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de

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> > France best ? Is there anyone covering it from
> > start to finish each

day

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> I
> > will order today, once I find out which one to
> > order!
>
> We're on cable, and OLN has it. Last year we were on
> holiday on PEI

and

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> followed the tour on Satellite no problem.
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> Jim Flom

Hi,

What does OLN stand for ?

Outdoor Life Network tsn.caolnOpen ↗

So OLN is actually TSN on Bell Express Vu ??

OLN is part of the TSN network, along with RDS and ESPN
classic. At least that's how it is in canada.

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Thanks very much for the link. They even have a lot of Tour
info on their website. Their coverage of bike racing is
improving by leaps and bounds. Now if they'd only show the
other races.

Doug

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What does OLN stand for ?

Outdoor Life Network tsn.caolnOpen ↗

So OLN is actually TSN on Bell Express Vu ??

No, OLN is its own channel, separate from TSN; and it is
available on Express Vu, Rogers Digital, and regular cable
as well (channel 58 here in the Toronto area).

TSN, OLN, CTV, and a few other channels are all part of the
Bell-Globemedia fine family of TV channels. (actually,
BGmedia only owns 33% of OLN according to their website -->
bellglobemedia.caxOpen ↗ but I digress).

OLN is the neglected child of the family, stuck showing
strongman competitions and re-runs of Lonely Planet during
most of the year. But for one month of every year Lance and
friends magically appear on the screen for several hours per
day. Then they all disappear again near the end of July,
never to be seen again until next year. And then its another
11 months of seeing dudes on 'roids pull 18 wheelers with a
rope, and Ian Wright eating cooked goat's testicles in
northern Finland or some place like that.

J. Spaceman

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I had hoped that one of the major sports networks would
be carrying it. OLN I believe is the only station
(Vancouver, Channel 49) which I don't get. If CBC is only
showing one hour's worth a week, it would appear that I
won't be seeing it at all. The doping rumours aren't
helping to make it a must see.

Here in Quebec we have "canal evasion" which basically has
the same coverage as OLN but with french commentators.
Most cable companies here carry that channel so if you
don't get Oln you can see it on Evasion. I get both on my
cable package.

Canal Evasion is available on Rogers Digital here in the
Toronto area (channel 513 I think), but you have to
subscribe to it.

J. Spaceman

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Don't bother subscribing for anything but the tour (unless
you really like fishing shows). Canadian OLN does not
carry any other cycling, unlike American OLN which has
quite a bit.

That's what I do. Get connected before the tour and
cancel after it. No connect/disconnect charges here in
Ottawa so costs about $15 CAD. I also let TSN and my
cable company know that I won't subscribe for a full year
unless OLN carries the classics and other grand tours -
Giro and Vuelta.

Canadian viewers should let their sentiments be known at:

[email hidden]

JFJ.

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Don't bother subscribing for anything but the tour
(unless you really

like

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fishing shows). Canadian OLN does not carry any other
cycling, unlike American OLN which has quite a bit.

That's what I do. Get connected before the tour and
cancel after it. No connect/disconnect charges here in
Ottawa so costs about $15 CAD. I also let TSN and my
cable company know that I won't subscribe for a full year
unless OLN carries the classics and other grand tours -
Giro and Vuelta.

Canadian viewers should let their sentiments be known at:

[email hidden]

JFJ.

Just got OLN ten minutes ago, I am really impressed with
the quality of the coverage, very professional, not
cheesy at all !!