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4 Dec 2006, 09:38 (Ref:1781453) | #1 | ||
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Le-mans TV channel in the UK?
What channel covers Le-mans in the UK, is it Eurosport or men and motors on Sky?.......I dont have Sky, but am considering buying a top-up-tv box which has "British Eurosport"......will this do the trick?........for £10 per month its a bit of a bargain me thinks
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MotorsTV is within Sky's "Documentaries" package (rather than Sport). It used to be one of the free channels but Motors was having difficulties in getting rights to racing series coverage as they couldn't limit the viewers to just within a single country.
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4 Dec 2006, 11:18 (Ref:1781564) | #5 | ||
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I don't know, but isn't the Sport package just for Sky Sports?
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4 Dec 2006, 16:18 (Ref:1781750) | #6 | |
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it's in news and events now. it'll cost you at least 15 pounds a month, more if you have other packages. It's must have though, imho
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4 Dec 2006, 18:02 (Ref:1781829) | #7 | ||
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Maybe this new BTVision service would provide an alternative?
http://www.btvision.bt.com/ It seems mostly pay-per-view without a subscription charge, apart from the fact that you have to sign upto BT Broadband. The Sport package doesn't come online until 2007, so I'll be keeping one eye on this to see if MotorsTV stuff etc appears as an option. |
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5 Dec 2006, 12:51 (Ref:1782504) | #8 | ||
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Motors TV is in the sports section of my package.
Where is Bravo 2 (did the FIA series this year) for others, it comes under All chanels and Entertainment for me. |
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5 Dec 2006, 12:58 (Ref:1782509) | #9 | |
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Motors TV came under docs for me when we ordered it a couple of weeks ago, we don't have Sky Sports.
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5 Dec 2006, 13:01 (Ref:1782512) | #10 | ||
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Was that a Sky package?
What else did you get? |
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5 Dec 2006, 13:16 (Ref:1782526) | #11 | ||
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Herein lies the elemental confusion about the way Sky organises its channels... You buy on the basis of one definition, and then they array them differently in their electronic programming guide.
Motors, legitimately, sits under Sport in the EPG, along with a combination of free channels (e.g. Eurosport) and subscription offerings (Setanta, SkySports etc). However, if you want to buy access to Motors, it comes under documentaries, and not sport, which, as others have said, gets you SkySports and that's about it. When getting access to Motors is quite such an obtuse process you start to understand why viewership isn't as high as it might be... In terms of where Player of FIA GT and missing the start of Le Mans went, this is now "Men and Motors 2" - presumably capitalising on the M&M brand... |
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5 Dec 2006, 13:22 (Ref:1782535) | #12 | |
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Yes we got four mixes – culture, documentaries, news and another I think – can’t remember now – don’t have sports but still get Motors, Eurosport and Bravo (which is good because, as earlier mention, they show the FIA GTs).
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5 Dec 2006, 15:29 (Ref:1782593) | #13 | ||
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Another peculiarity of Sky's Mixes/Packages is that a large number of channels that are free-to-air on Cable/Freeview/and indeed Sky's own FreeSat are bundled into the Entertainment package, and if you are a cheapskate (like my father) and put 2 packages like News and Docs you actually get very few channels, luckily MotorsTV fits into what he does get.
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5 Dec 2006, 15:49 (Ref:1782606) | #14 | |
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5 Dec 2006, 19:53 (Ref:1782779) | #15 | ||
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The problem I have is that I have Telewest and they don't carry Motors. However Telewest is now owned by NTL, but I have asked the question of Telewest when they will be adding Motors to there line up and there answer was er don't know !!!
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6 Dec 2006, 18:04 (Ref:1783480) | #16 | ||
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Think the dutch canal digitaal is the cheapest way to get motors on sat tv, but its 19,2 and not 28,2°E
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8 Dec 2006, 09:43 (Ref:1784946) | #17 | ||
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If you don't/can't get Sky, In '06 one of the Danish channels - I forget which, sorry, but I can look it up! - streamed the entire Le Mans 24 Hours over the internet at very good quality (about a one-megabit stream; not as good as 'real' telly but nothing to complain about!). That plus Hindy and the boys at Radio Le Mans meant I didn't miss any of the race...
(I assume this is largely contingent upon Tom K. continuing to be The Man). |
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