TdF on Eurosport but not Sky/NTL

Hey,
I love the TdF each year and I currently have Sky. But I am sick of
paying b'stard Murdoch. Freesat does not seem to do Eurosport as far
as I know and I really like their coverage. I would like to keep
Eurosport for this reasonm and would not mind a couple of quid a week
to keep it ticking over.

Anyone suggest some alternatives please?

Regards,
Steve

"Kaiser Sose" wrote in message
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Hey,
I love the TdF each year and I currently have Sky. But I am sick of
paying b'stard Murdoch. Freesat does not seem to do Eurosport as far
as I know and I really like their coverage. I would like to keep
Eurosport for this reasonm and would not mind a couple of quid a week
to keep it ticking over.

Anyone suggest some alternatives please?

Regards,
Steve

TDf is on ITV4 which I think is on Freeserve but is definitely on Virgin.

Matt wrote:
"Kaiser Sose" wrote in message
...
Hey,
I love the TdF each year and I currently have Sky. But I am sick of
paying b'stard Murdoch. Freesat does not seem to do Eurosport as far
as I know and I really like their coverage. I would like to keep
Eurosport for this reasonm and would not mind a couple of quid a week
to keep it ticking over.

Anyone suggest some alternatives please?

Regards,
Steve

TDf is on ITV4 which I think is on Freeserve but is definitely on
Virgin.


Get yourself an old analogue receiver and dish ( Pre Sky digital) and point
it at Astra, you'll pick up International Eurosport & CNN plus some German
channels etc. Lidls have them in a couple of times each year.or look on
Ebay.for seconhand

Jan

"Matt" wrote in message
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TDf is on ITV4 which I think is on Freeserve but is definitely on
Virgin.

Did you mean *Freeview*? If so only highlights and the occasional live
coverage is on digital terrestrial TV, OTOH it's available as FTA on
the 'Sky' and 'Freesat' satellite platforms but even then live
coverage is only via the ITV interactive (the "Press Red button")
function and a 1/6th size screen.

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Jan wrote:
Matt wrote:
"Kaiser Sose" wrote in message
...
Hey,
I love the TdF each year and I currently have Sky. But I am sick of
paying b'stard Murdoch. Freesat does not seem to do Eurosport as
far as I know and I really like their coverage. I would like to keep
Eurosport for this reasonm and would not mind a couple of quid a
week to keep it ticking over.

Anyone suggest some alternatives please?

Regards,
Steve

TDf is on ITV4 which I think is on Freeserve but is definitely on
Virgin.


Get yourself an old analogue receiver and dish ( Pre Sky digital) and
point it at Astra, you'll pick up International Eurosport & CNN
plus some German channels etc. Lidls have them in a couple of times
each year.or look on Ebay.for seconhand

Jan


You could also watch on your computer see www.cyclingfans.com

Jan

Kaiser Sose writes:

Hey,
I love the TdF each year and I currently have Sky. But I am sick of
paying b'stard Murdoch. Freesat does not seem to do Eurosport as far
as I know and I really like their coverage. I would like to keep
Eurosport for this reasonm and would not mind a couple of quid a week
to keep it ticking over.

I'd cheerfully pay money for TdF coverage in a format I could use, but
I've not found anyome selling such. I suspect that bittorrent is your
friend.


-dan

"Jerry" wrote in message
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"Matt" wrote in message
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snip
TDf is on ITV4 which I think is on Freeserve but is definitely on Virgin.

Did you mean *Freeview*? If so only highlights and the occasional live
coverage is on digital terrestrial TV

Have you tried the red button on Freeview ?

I've seen an advert for it which claims there's live coverage Mon-Fri. I
think I was watching the one hour 7pm highlight program on Freeview when I
saw the advert. I've not tried it.

Best Regards

Dave.

wrote:

I watched the whole stage today on satellite via the ITV interactive
channel using a Lidl sat receiver. No payments to murdoch, and continuous
coverage.


Me too (except I watched France 2 on Amos/Atlantic Bird live) then ITV4
in the evening.
:-))

Daniel Barlow wrote:

I'd cheerfully pay money for TdF coverage in a format I could use, but
I've not found anyome selling such. I suspect that bittorrent is your
friend.
The Lidl camping set isn't on sale at the moment but Maplin sell it for
only £20 more !
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0geu62hd3...8737%26doy=3m8
It's very easy to tune to Amos for France 2/3,
Hotbird for RAI,
Astra 1 for Free German Eurosport, RTBF for Belgian races, ETB for
Basque races, Cubavision for the Vuelta Cuba even!!
and of course Astra 2 for all the UK Freesat stuff including live ITV4
streaming each day.
Highly recommended.

"David Lowther" wrote in message
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"Jerry" wrote in message
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"Matt" wrote in message
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snip
TDf is on ITV4 which I think is on Freeserve but is definitely on
Virgin.

Did you mean *Freeview*? If so only highlights and the occasional
live coverage is on digital terrestrial TV

Have you tried the red button on Freeview ?

I've seen an advert for it which claims there's live coverage
Mon-Fri. I think I was watching the one hour 7pm highlight program
on Freeview when I saw the advert. I've not tried it.


That is for the satellite, it's certainly what was implied when the
service was mentioned on the Thursday highlights programme, AIUI there
is no interactive service linked to the Freeview channel.
--
Regards, Jerry.
Location - United Kingdom.
In the first instance please reply to group, sorry,
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