OLN Giro coverage.schedule

Charles Hizark said:

I have been taping the Giro, but it's a bit of a hassle, because they
have been going beyond the scheduled time. Today they went almost a hour
over. Luckily I am home in the mornings so I monitor the tape. It would
be nice if the Giro was re-broadcast at night.

Yeah, I was ready for this and prepped a 3-hr tape and put it on SLP so
it'll go for 6 hours. Also has the advantage of FFwding through the
commercials quicker. Surprisingly little quality loss in going from SP
to SLP - probably because the images aren't that good to begin with.

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Charles Hizark said:

I have been taping the Giro, but it's a bit of a hassle, because they
have been going beyond the scheduled time. Today they went almost a
hour over. Luckily I am home in the mornings so I monitor the tape. It
would be nice if the Giro was re-broadcast at night.

Shame on you - complaining that the coverage is longer than the minimum
promised! This is a problem that cycling fans should be happy to have
to deal with, in my opinion.

OLN has been doing the Giro and Vuelta for a year longer than they've
been doing the Tour (if my memory is right), and all three tours have
had "overtime" coverage since the beginning. Has OLN been doing their
cycling coverage for 4 years now, or even longer? No matter, I try
never to miss any of it!

The reason for overtime is that the European races are scheduled so that
they will end when European viewers get a chance to watch them. US time
zones allow the broadcasts to be _live_ here, but early in the morning
(6:30AM where I am on the West Coast).

Because the broadcasts are live, they may run short if the riders are
hauling the mail (or have a tailwind, for example) and long if the stage
is slow (or bad weather affects things, or there is a road closure, or a
multitude of other possible causes). I can recall stages that were over
in less than one hour of the scheduled 90 minute show -- then you get to
listen to the tres caballeros rattle on about the stage, the overall
race, the personalities, their memories, their hat sizes, etc.

I always set my VCR for 2.5 hours in the morning, unless it is a big
mountain stage, when OLN's coverage is scheduled for more than 90
minutes, and then I add at least an hour. (Weekend shows are tape
delays, and have never gone long, as fas as I can recall. I try to tape
them by hand, skipping commercials, to save tape.)

I get roughly 40 hours of cycling on tape for the Giro and Vuelta, and
even more for the Tour. I watch each race again at least once, then
reuse the tapes for the next year's race.

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I have been taping the Giro, but it's a bit of a hassle, because they
have been going beyond the scheduled time. Today they went almost a
hour over. Luckily I am home in the mornings so I monitor the tape. It
would be nice if the Giro was re-broadcast at night.

The afternoon broadcasts are edited and limited to the 90 minutes ...... If
that's what you really want.

Kendall

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Quoted message said:

I have been taping the Giro, but it's a bit of a hassle, because they
have been going beyond the scheduled time. Today they went almost a
hour over. Luckily I am home in the mornings so I monitor the tape. It
would be nice if the Giro was re-broadcast at night.

You clearly have your priorities totally screwed up. Lemme s'plain
something:

This is a unique opportunity to get the full race on the media of your
choice, being cheap and trying to pack as many stages as you can on a
tape/disc is where you go wrong. Go to your outlet for recording
media and buy 1 tape for each stage (or many more DVD-RW than it would
exactly fit.) Put a fresh tape or a disc with sufficient capacity in
for each day and start recording a few minutes before the show starts
and let it run. The reality is if the end gets cut off you only have
yourself to blame for cutting corners. You'll never get that complete
footage of the entire race on a 10 hour DVD set so take advantage of
what you can get now.

(I wish they had the audio on OLNTV.COM but I couldn't find it and
Eurosport timed out on me. I'd love to record that, some of the stuff
that is said during breaks is priceless.)

Quoted message said:

Go to your outlet for recording
media and buy 1 tape for each stage (or many more DVD-RW than it would
exactly fit.) Put a fresh tape or a disc with sufficient capacity in
for each day and start recording a few minutes before the show starts
and let it run. The reality is if the end gets cut off you only have
yourself to blame for cutting corners. You'll never get that complete
footage of the entire race on a 10 hour DVD set so take advantage of
what you can get now.

I've been doing the same as the above ... my problem ... where to put the BOXES
of tapes !

I've got enough to last well past retirement already.

jw
milwaukee

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Quoted message said:

I have been taping the Giro, but it's a bit of a hassle, because they
have been going beyond the scheduled time. Today they went almost a
hour over. Luckily I am home in the mornings so I monitor the tape. It
would be nice if the Giro was re-broadcast at night.

WHen taping the tour, I learned to set the timer with an extra hour leeway.
You never know, and I'd rather not miss a finish. Often it did run over.

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Quoted message said:

I have been taping the Giro, but it's a bit of a hassle, because they
have been going beyond the scheduled time. Today they went almost a
hour over. Luckily I am home in the mornings so I monitor the tape. It
would be nice if the Giro was re-broadcast at night.

The afternoon broadcasts are edited and limited to the 90 minutes ......

If

Quoted message said:

that's what you really want.

Kendall

With the tour I preferred getting the morning live coverage, I didn't like
all the extra stuff in the evenings and more ads. It's worth it to set your
timer with an extra hour and tape in the mornings!

J999w said:

Quoted message said:

Go to your outlet for recording
media and buy 1 tape for each stage (or many more DVD-RW than it would
exactly fit.) Put a fresh tape or a disc with sufficient capacity in
for each day and start recording a few minutes before the show starts
and let it run. The reality is if the end gets cut off you only have
yourself to blame for cutting corners. You'll never get that complete
footage of the entire race on a 10 hour DVD set so take advantage of
what you can get now.

I've been doing the same as the above ... my problem ... where to put the BOXES
of tapes !

I've got enough to last well past retirement already.

jw
milwaukee

Send them to PO Box BR549, California, thanks much! ;-)