LMS & Le Mans to be on Eurosport in 2008 - Page 7

deggis · 15 Apr 2008, 22:44 (Ref:2178419)

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Originally Posted by Emillian Stoyko

Deggis, I can confirm that Radio Le Mans will be covering the races from Monza onwards.

Why didn't they do Barcelona too? It conflicted with St. Pete/ALMS?

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Originally Posted by Alex Toropov

Not sure, why they decided, that ALMS is racing in russian St. Petersbourg, but nevermind

That's even worse than thinking F430 looks anything like McLaren F1 GTR (like the cycling commentator at Eurosport did)

Emillian Stoyko · 16 Apr 2008, 18:37 (Ref:2179176)

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Originally Posted by deggis

Why didn't they do Barcelona too? It conflicted with St. Pete/ALMS?

I think the deal got done very late and there wasn't enough time to get everything in place for the first race. The only good thing about the Houston ALMS being cancelled is we'll get Hindy. So the Radio Le Mans commentary and the uninterrupted Eurosport stream will make for quite the great combination.

JAG · 16 Apr 2008, 19:02 (Ref:2179204)

I'll be interested to see what commentary team RLM have for the LMS and generally how they fare first time out.

dj4monie · 18 Apr 2008, 14:13 (Ref:2180705)

I guess this is where you post -

Where's Martin Haven???

Surely he'll be on the commentary team on the Eurosport side of things, a visit from Hindy? lol

Emillian Stoyko · 30 Apr 2008, 16:38 (Ref:2191216)

For those who are wondering the start of the Barcelona race got 35000 viewers on British Eurosport and was rancked #9 of the week, the highest being the Superbikes at 172 000.

Mal · 30 Apr 2008, 17:06 (Ref:2191233)

That sounds pretty good to me

Emillian Stoyko · 30 Apr 2008, 17:20 (Ref:2191241)

Forgot to mention the Motors rating: 4th place of the week with 13000. 3rd was the ALMS race from St. Pete with 16000 and first was a British Rallycross race with 18000.

Emillian Stoyko · 16 May 2008, 20:16 (Ref:2204364)

For Monza I only saw the figures for Motors TV. The most watched LMS show from Monza is the highlights broadcast that was on sunday evening of race day - 10 000 viewers. That's 4th place of the week. 1st - MX1 highlights - 24000 viewers.

sceptic · 16 May 2008, 22:40 (Ref:2204425)

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Originally Posted by dj4monie

I guess this is where you post -

Where's Martin Haven???

Surely he'll be on the commentary team on the Eurosport side of things, a visit from Hindy? lol

Martin won't be at Le Mans, as he'll be at Brno for World Touring Cars.

JAG · 17 May 2008, 12:35 (Ref:2204682)

I watched the Eurosport highlights for Spa, my Sky+ recording of the live event failed!, and it was a good, informative round-up, as ever Martin Haven was very good.

Motors TV's highlights package needs to be edited better.

Emillian Stoyko · 22 May 2008, 11:07 (Ref:2208951)

Ratings update. The Sunday 30 minute highlights from Spa on Eurosport got 59 000 viewers, making it the second most watched programme of the week. Obviously that's the most watched LMS show this year and I think we have to thank John Hindhaugh, who several times plugged the start time of the broadcast on Radio Le Mans.

bil588 · 2 Jun 2008, 18:36 (Ref:2218027)

Will Eurosport have a live video of the race on their website?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/motorsport/le-mans/

deggis · 3 Jun 2008, 00:15 (Ref:2218264)

Webstream was promised back when the broadcast deal was published... I guess Emilian will be the first one here to tell good/bad news.

Btw Emilian, were all those viewers only for UK, MotorsTV too?

Also curious to see next week if the Eurosport influence has shaped up certain things in the "world feed", for example onboard cameras. Because last year those really sucked. Sound was not synchronized with the picture and the signal kept breaking up all the time in certain corners. If they're using same camera technology than in LMS, doesn't look good, even in Monza and Spa the signal kept breaking up.

NightStalk3r · 4 Jun 2008, 22:35 (Ref:2220047)

Do we know what Eurosport are actually showing yet, are we getting any Coverage of Practice or Qually or is it just the Race?

deggis · 4 Jun 2008, 22:43 (Ref:2220050)

Yes: http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans...F_2883_gb.html

NightStalk3r · 4 Jun 2008, 23:24 (Ref:2220070)

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Originally Posted by deggis

Yes: http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans...F_2883_gb.html

Cheers for that.

I take it EUROSPORT INTER would be British Eurosport here?

dj4monie · 5 Jun 2008, 02:26 (Ref:2220111)

Didn't you notice the dates are wrong?

June 14th would be Saturday and June 15th Sunday, they skip a day some how. Some sort of teleportation device is being used by Carlton Kriby and Martin Haven...

NightStalk3r · 5 Jun 2008, 04:16 (Ref:2220152)

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Originally Posted by dj4monie

Didn't you notice the dates are wrong?

June 14th would be Saturday and June 15th Sunday, they skip a day some how. Some sort of teleportation device is being used by Carlton Kriby and Martin Haven...

Martin Haven is on WTCC duty during Le Mans this year

Also the times are out by 1 hour

Emillian Stoyko · 5 Jun 2008, 13:27 (Ref:2220512)

Here are the updated schedules (CET)

Wednesday:
E2 - 22:00-00:00

Thursday
E2 - 10:00-11:00 (replay)
18:00-20:00
22:00-00:00

Friday
E2 - 10:00-11:00 (replay)

Saturday
EInter - 9:30-10:00 Q highlights
10:00-10:45 W UP
E2 - 11:00-12:00 Legends
EI - 14:30-15:45
E2- 15:45- 18:15
EI- 18:15 - 20:00
E2 - 20:00-22:00
EI - 22:00-22:30
E2 - 22:30-02:00
EI - 02:00-09:00
E2 - 09:00-11:00
EI - 11:00-12:00
E2 -12:00 -14:00
EI - 14:00-15:15

Plus from monday Eurosport will broadcast a short daily segment about Audis' preperation for the race.

I think the english commentary team is this (but don't quote me on it): Carlton Kirby, Mark Cole, Simon Hill (great commentator), Chris Parsons, Tony Delahunty and Henry Hope-Frost (long time Radio Le Mans pit reporter and Autosport journalist).

Also I'm not sure about the online coverage. I think there'll be streaming at least on the german and spanish site.

And yes, all the viewing figures I posted are for the UK only.

Alex Toropov · 5 Jun 2008, 13:48 (Ref:2220528)

Shame there's no men like Martin Haven or late David Leslie...

that Tony Delahunty is a complete joke

Piglet · 5 Jun 2008, 14:24 (Ref:2220545)

I'm not even going to bother to try to record all the segments - too much like hard work pragramming the recorder as it's switching between 1 and 2 constantly. We can all have a fair guess that each of the segments will actually start at a different time so I'll have to over run everything by 15 minutes each way and then have to edit the crud out.

I hope Eurosport do get the coverage right this time, but I by far prefered the Motors set up where it was on one channel for chunks of time.

deggis · 5 Jun 2008, 16:36 (Ref:2220625)

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Originally Posted by Emillian Stoyko

Also I'm not sure about the online coverage. I think there'll be streaming at least on the german and spanish site.

"Not sure"? I hope you mean you just haven't heard anything about it.

I sure hope their original promise still stands...

"Non-stop LIVE video streaming of the race, with commentaries, on Eurosport's websites across Europe."

@ http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans...D_2537_gb.html

Also I wouldn't base any arguments whether there's going to be stream or not on the LMS race streams, as those just turned up there. When the broadcasting deal with LMS was published on the LMS website, there was no mention of webstreams. So that was just positive extra...

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And yes, all the viewing figures I posted are for the UK only.

Ok.

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Martin Haven is on WTCC duty during Le Mans this year

Also the times are out by 1 hour

Also it says "previsional"... I guess someone lost the French-English-French dictionary again.

Emillian Stoyko · 5 Jun 2008, 16:41 (Ref:2220627)

Not trying to tempt fate, but I don't think timing is going to be much of a problem because when between the Le Mans segments on Eurosport International there either recorded shows (Euro 2008 games) or sports that usually don't over run (Equastrian, Superbikes and WTCC). There IS a tennis match before the 18:15 show, but the game should be over by then.

ger80 · 5 Jun 2008, 17:29 (Ref:2220649)

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Originally Posted by Emillian Stoyko

Plus from monday Eurosport will broadcast a short daily segment about Audis' preperation for the race.

When excatly?

rdjones · 5 Jun 2008, 18:38 (Ref:2220705)

I had a press release through the other day saying that Liz Halliday will be part of the Eurosport commentary team.

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