Cycling Fans on Satellite

anthony wrote in “Spotted the Italian Champs on Rai Tre [13e] Sunday 16.00 CET. Also spotted French Champs on France 3 [5w] at 15.15 CET.”

Good spots, thanks.

BrianL writes in: “Coming up soon will be the Tour de Suisse which will be shown on German Sports Channel D:SF (FTA on 19e). Timings listed on their website as below.

Samstag, 13. Juni, 18.30 Uhr
1. Etappe: Mauren/LIE - Ruggell/LIE (7,8 km) Höhepunkte

Sonntag, 14. Juni, 19.30 Uhr
2. Etappe: Davos - Davos (150 km) Höhepunkte

Dienstag, 16. Juni, 17.00 Uhr
4. Etappe: Biasca - Stäfa (197 km) LIVE

Mittwoch, 17. Juni, 18.00 Uhr
5. Etappe: Stäfa - Serfaus/AUT (202 km) LIVE

Donnerst., 18. Juni, 18.00 Uhr
6. Etappe: Oberriet - Bad Zurzach (178 km) LIVE

Samstag, 20. Juni, 17.30 Uhr
8. Etappe: Le Sentier - Crans-Montana (182 km) LIVE

Sonntag, 21. Juni, 17.00 Uhr
9. Etappe: Einzelzeitfahren in Bern (39 km) LIVE

All the timings seem a little bit late for live transmission.”

The Dauphiné Libéré is traditionally a warm-up race for some of the Tour de France contenders. Watch it free-to-air on Eurosport Germany (19e): Sunday has stage one highlights 18:00-19:00, then live coverage on Monday from 15:15, Tuesday-Thursday from 16:00, Friday from 15:00, Saturday from 15:30 and the final Sunday from 15:15. Generally highlights shows are around midnight or 10:00 the following morning. All times CET.

If you spot the race on other free satellite TV, please leave me a comment. Of course, get your online coverage at cyclingfans.com.

RAI has the best coverage on 13 east: RAI Tre around 15:00-17:30 CET daily live coverage. Extra features and weekend extra live coverage are on RAI Tre and RAI Sport Sat.

Eurosport Germany is on 19 east 15:00-17:30 CET daily live coverage, but will be often delayed and cut short by tennis live coverage from the French Open once that starts. Highlights are on around midnight CET daily.

Have you seen coverage on other free TV stations? Please send a comment.

Les 4 jours de Dunkerque are broadcast on Direct8 (13e, 19e) at the end of the week: Friday 8 May 15:20, Saturday 9 May 15:40, Sunday 10 May 15:45, all CET. Only three days of this six-day four-day race(???) are broadcast.

See also Direct8’s event web page and cyclingfans’s main preview.

Giro di Toscana 2009 is on 3 May 2009, Arezzo - Sansepolcro (193.4 Km) on RAI Sport Piu (13e) 1900-2045 CET. Thanks to Dave F for the tip-off.

BrianL and Bernie S both wrote in to remind me that the Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop is being shown FTA on
the German channel HR Fernsehen [at 19e] this afternoon (1 May) between 1500-1630 CET (1400-1530 Ireland+UK).

Thanks to all the contributors - I’m having another busy week at work, some of which you may see in the right sidebar…

The 260km of the 95th Liege-Bastogne-Liege takes place later today. Read more on CyclingFans.com.

You can watch it live free-to-air on satellite on Eurosport at 19e from 1400-1700 CET, RAI Tre at 13e from 1505 CET or on France 3 at 5w from 1510 CET. Yet again, RTBF are sponsoring a race, but aren’t broadcasting it internationally!

Highlights are tomorrow (Monday) 1400-1530 CET on Eurosport. If you see live or highlights coverage anywhere else, please leave a comment: I’ll post any updates before the race.

Update: Added RAI info - thanks Bernie S!

The 73rd Flèche Wallonne (Waloon Arrow) race from Charleroi to Huy runs in Belgium today.

It’s live on Eurosport.de at 19e from 1400-1630 CET with highlights tomorrow (Thursday) 100-1130.

The race is also live on RAI Sport più (13e) from 1445-1630, with highlights tomorrow 1300-1400. RAI are generally busier with cycling coverage at the moment: the same channel has Giro del Trentino today 1825-1855, with Cycling Real Time(?) 1745-1805 tomorrow followed by Prosecchissima 1805-1830 and Giro del Trentino 2030-2100. It’s worth keeping an eye on their 2-day teletext guide if you like the smaller races too.

The Waloon Arrow is yet another Belgian race which isn’t on RTBFsat.

Anders wrote in to say “RAI3 lists Amstel Gold coverage on 19th April 2009, 1545-1650″. RAI3 is free-to-air on 13e.

I’ve also seen Eurosport (19e) advertising coverage of the 44th Amstel Gold Race from 1515 CET.

Surprisingly, it doesn’t seem to be on anywhere else yet. Another blank on RTBFsat. Did someone cut their budget again?

If you spot it elsewhere, please leave a comment on this post.