[LM24] Television & streaming & Shirt

[deggis]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Is anyone going to be streaming/showing the Road to Le Mans race and practice?

It should be on the official Youtube & Dailymotion channels:

https://youtube.com/channel/UCDc_cN2tfvBYmym3D1CeB3g
http://www.dailymotion.com/GT3LMC

Maybe not practice but at least the race.

[J Jay]

This seems like the best place to ask - have the RLM previews started? They usually have by now, but I can't see anything uploaded on their LM page, or anywhere else.

[Adam43]

I've already heard one of the travel destination pieces

IIRC they came out at the beginning of Le Mans week last year.

[J Jay]

I don't think it's that late - come Monday of LM week RLM are all hands on deck. IIRC they are broadcasted Thursday to Saturday the week beforehand.

I'll tune in tonight, it should be the LMP2 review.

[Akrapovic]

They're meant to be Thursday-Sunday according to the last MWM broadcast, but the podcast versions aren't up yet.

[rdjones]

An update on the ITV4 coverage, they have live coverage between 9.30 and 2.45 on Sunday, however I can't see any coverage of the start of the race. Very odd.

[BertMk2]

Originally Posted by rdjones

An update on the ITV4 coverage, they have live coverage between 9.30 and 2.45 on Sunday, however I can't see any coverage of the start of the race. Very odd.

Ooh - that's quite good. Couple that with the Quest coverage as well and there's a fair bit on Freeview. I like to watch a bit of the 'dark' hours so the Quest coverage should do that nicely.

[GT6]

Yes just seen the advert while watching the BTCC, oh well not quite what i was expecting to be doing this year but probably best i can do this year

[Akrapovic]

Use the official site. Full 24 hour coverage.

[S griffin]

Saw that too, glad coverage of the great race will be on Freeview

[S griffin]

And you should be able to switch between Quest and ITV4 during the adverts hopefully

[Scorchess]

For some reason there is no monthly subscription for Eurosport Player anymore. Now I can pay the same for one day access, what is this nonsense?

[deggis]

Originally Posted by Scorchess

For some reason there is no monthly subscription for Eurosport Player anymore. Now I can pay the same for one day access, what is this nonsense?

The prices vary between countries. I don't know if that was a recent change but in some countries (UK and Germany at least) there is now a 9,99 e Le Mans pass:

https://i.imgur.com/P48PrRM.png

And my country (Finland) still has the old 6.99 eur / 1 month pass.

[Scorchess]

Yeah, in my country (Netherlands) they removed that option. So I turned on the ol' VPN and just bought a month package from 'Sweden'. Still valid for the Dutch language website too.

Kind of an annoying move though to just get rid of the monthly subscription offer for no apparent reason.

[Adam43]

If you haven't already seen it here is a summary of all broadcasters and official streamers

http://assets.lemans.org/explorer/pd...-mans-2017.pdf

[Akrapovic]

Does anyone know who the broadcast team for the official WEC steam is? I can't find anything saying who is on it.

http://www.fiawec.com/en/news/new-we...-for-2017/4830

This has the WEC team, but I can't find Le Mans.

Edit: Can't find the roster for Eurosport or RLM either, or what ITV and Quest will be using. I wish we could just get RLM on the official stream and be done with it.

[deggis]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Does anyone know who the broadcast team for the official WEC steam is? I can't find anything saying who is on it.

http://www.fiawec.com/en/news/new-we...-for-2017/4830

This has the WEC team, but I can't find Le Mans.

Edit: Can't find the roster for Eurosport or RLM either, or what ITV and Quest will be using. I wish we could just get RLM on the official stream and be done with it.

I have not seen it mentioned anywhere.

EDIT: didn't read the link

Eurosport team:

The English language service, both for the UK and international, will this year be fronted by Mark Cole, Martin Haven, Carlton Kirby and David Addison, supplemented by driver experts Sam Hancock, Damien Faulkner and Liz Halliday, with Chris Parsons on the night watch, and guests to the on-site commentary cabins.

David Addison (does Blancpain) is great. And looks like no clashing cycling event = Kirby is back.

http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/e...-from-le-mans/

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by deggis

Should be the same as for other races, minus Martin Haven who is on Eurosport unless he is going to double-duty. This was one of the reasons for the change so that team is the same for LM too and not like before when Hindy went back to do RLM and then they had cheap replacements.

Altough I can't believe McNish & Moody (the weakest link) can do the whole 24 hours, they have to have some rotation.

I assumed that, but the website says they aren't.

Mcnish - cover all eight rounds of the WEC – the 24 Hours of Le Mans broadcast package being a separate entity.

Moody - and for this season will cover the 6 Hours of Silverstone, the 6 Hours of Nürburgring and the 6 Hours of Bahrain.

Haven - will cover the WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, 6 Hours of Mexico, 6 Hours of COTA, 6 Hours of Fuji and 6 Hours of Shanghai.

It keeps saying Le Mans is a different package, but doesn't say who will be doing it. If it ends up as being Moody then I'll be moving to Eurosport, as he's absolutely useless. They might've said the change was for continuity, but it's more fractured than ever. Can we just get RLM please. Just pay RLM as much money as they want, and put the RLM audio into the stream.

[deggis]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

I assumed that, but the website says they aren't.

Oops, didn't read the link... and I think I never read it back when this was announced. It isn't about continuity then for sure.

I'd put bets on all the names that have appeared as LM replacements in the past years. From last year I only remember that one guy who does WRC and even his name I don't remember.

[Articus]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

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It keeps saying Le Mans is a different package, but doesn't say who will be doing it. If it ends up as being Moody then I'll be moving to Eurosport, as he's absolutely useless. They might've said the change was for continuity, but it's more fractured than ever. Can we just get RLM please. Just pay RLM as much money as they want, and put the RLM audio into the stream.

Lol!!! I thought in the past, the problem was that RLM don't want their stream behind a paywall.

Although I can't figure why it's so hard to get RLM on a television broadcast, they are gold.

[Akrapovic]

Just seen your Eurosport edit. Cheers for that. Looks good for Eurosport so that'll most likely be the route I go. £6 for coverage is very reasonable.

[Paradise City]

Bleugh, Kryptonite Kirby. I'd sooner they put a fog horn in front of the microphone.

Addison does very well. But is Jeremy Shaw somewhere on someone's rota?

[Akrapovic]

I assume Shaw will be on the RLM radio coverage. It is a shame all the best are on RLM. I hate muting the TV to sync radio. It never syncs correctly and loses ambient sounds.

Eurosport for me it looks like. Annoyingly they still haven't fixed the Eurosport Player app for the Xbox 18 months later.

[Gingers4Justice]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

I assume Shaw will be on the RLM radio coverage. It is a shame all the best are on RLM. I hate muting the TV to sync radio. It never syncs correctly and loses ambient sounds.

Eurosport for me it looks like. Annoyingly they still haven't fixed the Eurosport Player app for the Xbox 18 months later.

Can you link Eurosport player with a laptop to your TV? There is a feed with just ambient sounds. You can pause it live to sync it up with RLM.

I've bought the LM-package for £5.99. Well worth it to have RLM coverage and ambient sounds IMO.

[Akrapovic]

Originally Posted by Gingers4Justice

Can you link Eurosport player with a laptop to your TV? There is a feed with just ambient sounds. You can pause it live to sync it up with RLM.

I've bought the LM-package for £5.99. Well worth it to have RLM coverage and ambient sounds IMO.

I can do that which is a good idea Yeah. Are RLM doing a video stream with a timer? They did that for a race last year and it helped sync up. Without it, it's just a guessing game.