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[Deleted]

I'm not sure if FOX Sports 2 is worse than speed2 used to be, or nothing at all when there was some useless NASCAR practice or whatever in certain SPEED years.

But it is grim for US.

On Eurosport there used to be a great deal of coverage share on less-distributed ES2, but they've actually moved towards having almost all of coverage on primary Eurosport International in recent years. Now all except one hour of the race and free practice is on ES1. So opposite of FOX...

[PascaLM]

When I was eleven, in 1974, the Le Mans TV program on French TV was :
15h50 to 16h30, 10 minutes before the news, fifteen minutes in the morning around 9h00, and the last 30 minutes. And there was one minute each hour on the radio. Times have changed.

[Deleted]

Yes, one of the few areas one cannot look with nostalgic glasses and claim better

AFAIK US TV coverage prior Speedvision coming along was pretty light in early 90's too

[supermario21]

Yeah, I wasn't alive for most of the ESPN stretch, but some Youtube videos revealed that in 1989 ESPN televised the first and last half hour of the race. 1991 was pretty good with about the first 3 hours, another hour in the late afternoon, and then the last half our. The mid 90s until 1996 when Speedvision got the rights seemed to be nothing more than a 2 hour highlight recap.

Unfortunately, with the extremely narrow distribution of FS2, this looks to be the worst covered Le Mans in recent history.

[Deleted]

In early 90's there were also other US channels broadcasting highlight packages after the race.

Wonder if this rejected-to-FS2/GO-for-the-most-part affects SPEED/FOX/whatever version it is they run in Australia. They utilize US comms there.

[deggis]

I guess the worrying was more about how the mainstream people will not see the race, but if someone here doesn't have access to FS2, get the official WEC race package then. I haven't read that it wouldn't be available to US.

[Spyderman]

I have just confirmed that Super Sport (South African TV) will be transmitting the entire race live as usual! THANK YOU SUPER SPORT!

[Gil Abobeleira]

Spyderman, what channel from SuperSport?

[Spyderman]

Originally Posted by Gil Abobeleira

Spyderman, what channel from SuperSport?

SS6

[deggis]

Saw this on another forum:

USA eastern time - race starts at 9 or 9:30AM
8:30AM to 12:00PM - FS2
7:00PM to 8:00PM - FS1
11:00PM to 12:30AM - FS2
3:30AM to 5:30AM - FS1
7:30AM to 9:00AM - FS2
9:00AM to 9:30AM - FS1

[Gil Abobeleira]

Originally Posted by Spyderman

SS6

Damn, don't have that channel

[ATLFalconsFAN]

Originally Posted by deggis

Saw this on another forum:

So you're saying that we're going to miss 15 hours of the race! That is ****ing bullshit!!!

I mean I'll be at the race so whatever, but I do enjoy recording it and watching it when I get home.

That's ridiculous though! (If true)

[supermario21]

Does anyone know if Network Ten in Australia will be streaming the race again this year? I believe they had the full 24H on last year or maybe 2 years ago on their website.

[rich07]

Originally Posted by supermario21

Does anyone know if Network Ten in Australia will be streaming the race again this year? I believe they had the full 24H on last year or maybe 2 years ago on their website.

I've been pondering this over the weekend but with WEC streaming app being a pay for item these days I'm not holding my breath . Ah the good old days when a kind car company would sponsor a stream, those days are past us for Le Mans I fear.

[HR186S]

Network 10 streamed the 2013 race, but not 2014.
I don't want to get Foxtel installed to watch Le Mans on Eurosport, and the Eurosport player isn't available in Australia. So this year I'm going to pay for the WEC stream.
10 euros seems reasonable. I hope its better than the dodgy third party stream I watched last year.
Who supplies the commentary for the WEC stream at Le Mans?

[supermario21]

Those TV listings for FS1 and FS2 posted match the ones on tvguide.com now. If they just put the whole race on FS GO, it will actually work out for most of us that get that at least. Their online channel is very good quality. But at this point, if I'm going to watch it on the web, might just go for a Eurosport stream or something, maybe even the WEC app...I tend to like them better anyways, especially Martin Haven and Jeremy Shaw.

[rdjones]

I have just been looking at the British Eurosport Schedule and it looks like this:-

Monday 8th

20:00 - 20:30 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport

Tuesday 9th

21:55 - 22:25 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport 2

Wednesday 10th

15.00 - 19.00 - Free Practice - British Eurosport 2
20:30 - 21:00 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport
21:00 - 23:00 - Qualifying - British Eurosport

Thursday 11th

18:00 - 20:15 - Qualifying - British Eurosport
20.15 - 20:45 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport
20:45 - 23:00 - Qualifying - British Eurosport

Friday 12th

21:15 - 21:45 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport 2

Saturday 13th

07:45 - 08:45 - Warm Up - British Eurosport
08:45 - 09:45 - Le Mans Legends - British Eurosport
13:15 - 13:45 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport
13:45 - 20:00 - Race - British Eurosport
20:00 - 20:30 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport
20:30 - 02:00 - Race - British Eurosport

Sunday 14th

02:00 - 14:15 - Race - British Eurosport
14:15 - 14:45 - Le Mans 24 Minutes - British Eurosport
21:00 - 22:00 - Le Mans 24 Hour Best of - British Eurosport

Looks good to me. Just over a week to go.....

[porman]

As usual, there is some great information here. Perhaps someone can help me? I purchased the season pack on the WEC's web site and have watched thus far without issue. Now, whenever I try to log in there is a problem with my password. I have already requested multiple links to help with a new password all in vein as the links don't work. I have also contacted several people, (I hope) from the contacts list on the WEC page as well. Does anyone have any ideas or perhaps know of someone within the IT department?

My year basically revolves around Le Mans and I don't want to wait much longer to solve my problem.

Thank you in advance!

[deggis]

Originally Posted by porman

As usual, there is some great information here. Perhaps someone can help me? I purchased the season pack on the WEC's web site and have watched thus far without issue. Now, whenever I try to log in there is a problem with my password. I have already requested multiple links to help with a new password all in vein as the links don't work. I have also contacted several people, (I hope) from the contacts list on the WEC page as well. Does anyone have any ideas or perhaps know of someone within the IT department?

My year basically revolves around Le Mans and I don't want to wait much longer to solve my problem.

Thank you in advance!

Seems to be a more common problem: http://www.reddit.com/r/wec/comments...ith_wec_login/

(or was that you?)

[porman]

Nope, not me. Not sure if this comforts me or not. Perhaps someone is aware of the issue and is doing something. Then again, I have had this problem for a few weeks now and no one listed on the WEC's site will respond.

Thank you for the link. I will post there too.

[deggis]

commentators are Bob Constanduros, Gilles Dawson, Mark James, Peter Dumbreck for the live #WEC App at #LM24

https://twitter.com/FIAWEC/status/606052820215840769

[whitemr2]

In the Netherlands it is live broadcasted on RTL 7 and Eurosport.

[supermario21]

Originally Posted by deggis

https://twitter.com/FIAWEC/status/606052820215840769

So does this mean there will be large portions of the stream without commentary? Unless they split into teams of 2 each, I can't see them covering the whole race with just 4.

[cokata]

Will there be live onboards like last year, or would they be payware.

[deggis]

Originally Posted by cokata

Will there be live onboards like last year, or would they be payware.

Confirmed: https://www.youtube.com/user/nismotv2013

Probably: http://www.porsche.com/international...livestreaming/

Probably: Audi?