great interview…i was hoping for a little dig on anthony’s "water-bottle-banter"
by the way…that picture is waaay more disturbing than ANY of my colorful race reports.
thank god i already ate lunch!
LaCorte
One mistake is the backwards apple logo on the screen. Otherwise great interview.
Andy
Damn you LaCorte!!!
CF
Those pictures are great. The dog watching Dan on the screen is hilarious. Is the dog supposed to be working?
Andy
All fixed now. Happy, Andrew?
Michael Green
Another network, World Championship Sports Network is doing cycling, skating, track, skiing and swimming. They are on the internet wcsn.com and also are getting into cable TV. In NYC they have some air time on SNY, the Mets new channel. I saw their track World’s and the cyclocross worlds. The quality was very good but it was shown on SNY months after the events. John Eustice was the commentator for the Cycling Cross. He thinks WCSN will do a lot more cycling and is working with them.
Besides Euro feeds it would be great to get some coverage for the USPRO cirucit. TV coverage is necessary to take USPRO to the next level.
If cycling-tv is doing the British pros , you’d think would do more coverage of the better USPRO races.
lee3
Long time hater of OLN ever since the Vuelta fiasco of 04′. They were going downhill long before that but that was the box that broke my back. I’m more than thrilled that you guys picked up the slack and can now say with a straight face that it is Cycling.tv that has it in the "BIG RING"!
Mike D Cyciing.tv
We’re now trying hard to get coverage of U.S. races on cycling.tv – alot of it depends on race finances, frankly, because producing them is costly with Helis, motorbikes, stationary cams, etc. We hope to have alot more US racing coverage by this time next year.
Hater
Schmaltz, you are a knucklehead.
(Can we split the quarter?)
schmalz
Hater – it doesn’t count if you misspell my name, you owe 12.5 cents
JG
what do you think, is the bam chicka bam bam dog captivated by schmalz or the tulips in the backround?
Great interview, cycling.tv has been a god send this year. We all got to watch Paris-Roubaix and all of the spring classics live! What more can I say…
On another note, I guess we have to give oln, the only lance network, a small pat on the back for teaming up with cycling.tv for the giro.
I look forward to viewing/dowloading/cell phone watching and hopefully watching the u s pro tour series in the future. well done, I love watching cycling everyday.
Justin
I was in London last February and got on the Undergound after "more than a couple" of pints and proceeded to bore some poor guy who had a Tour of Britain bag and a copy of cycling weekly. Turned out he was one of the cycling.tv owners – not sure if it was one of the guys Schmaltz interviewed. Cool concept though – I’m a subscriber.
lee3
It looks like Tour of California would be a good kick-off. They have a pretty comprehensive site except nothing works. The Georgia race is also a great one, however the Tour of Gila race, USPRO, and others always slip through the cracks of video images to the US market. OLN just sorta left it all hanging – like a snub. A sorta no Lance, no coverage attitude just festered resentment to thier network. It was ridiculous. Eventually they stomped out the cyclng msg board and all that was left was "Beach Bikini game shows and Bar B Q cook offs and let us not forget the awesome Fishing coverage! I love Lance but OLN really hit ya over the head with the constant Lance-a-thon like mania. Who doesnt think the word "Cyclism" is a friggen stupid word? Even the commentation (Roll and on rare occasion sometimes Liggett) seemed to be the Postal/Discovery rah rah section. It was too much. Its refreshing to hear commentary on ALL of the athletes from Brian and Anthony. You guys keep it honest. Brain sorta reminds me of Sean Kelly Commentary. With listening to the both of you I can understand the successful formula for good cycling commentary. There has to be the wily pro (Brian, Sherwen,Kelly types) juxtaposed with the educated observer (McCrossan, Liggett, and that Eurosport guy Dave?) It works well. I liked Roll when he did Vuelta with Sherwin and the Domestic stuff, but it seemed like he couldnt do a race without praising the boss. Local commentation is just sad. I liken the tone to that of the Skateboard/Snowboard coverage. They try to generate excitement at dumb moments. Someone would go on an attack and the commentator would react as if he just saw someone do a backflip with an unspilled martini in hand.
PROSPECT PARK
SCHMULTZFUZ
You should spell your name like this and in all cap. all the time.
I will pay you the 12.5 cents the next time I see you…not really cause then I would have to come out from behind my leafy mask.
HATER SUCKS, SCHMULTZFUZ is entertaining and that lee3 comment is right on.
PP
Jon S
Good post Lee!
Hater
Grow a hill, Prospect Park.
kevin molloy
if this is what heroin is like, now i understand why people can’t stop…
Faber
Great work Schmalz! McCrossan and Smith are now a daily part of my cycling diet. The Cycling.TV/OLN deal is even better than when Peanut Butter met chocolate. Viva La Cycling.tv! I could not wipe the grin off my face after watching yesterday’s beautiful stage through the Italian woods leading up to that beautifully heartbreaking uphill finish of Axel Merckx. Truly a godsend!
SA
The photo with the dog is amazing!
JT
NOT LIVE but the DVD "PRO" has good coverage of the Philly Pro race from one year, and the other pro races in "Philly week." Really good.
lee3
What a gutsy ride by Axel! Just as the finish was happening my boss walked up on me. BUSTEAAAAAAD!
JT
Also, back in the day Eustice produced coverage of the top men’s races at Harriman (the year Peter Mazur won — he’s now on Saunier Duval) and even a 70+ mile Floyd race. On video. I don’t know if he was ever able to get that on TV. Also Univest, which was shown on local TV in Penna.
JT
I want to see footage of Andy Hampsten winning the Tour of Italy in 1989.
JT
Faber, chocolate meeting peanut butter is nice, but the really good part is getting the chocolate *into* the peanut butter….
lee3
Who did the commentary for the Eustice production?
JT
In the Eustice productions, some (Harriman and Floyd I think) were just Eustice and some had co-commentators. I saw a Univest with Vaughters co-commentating, and another with Catherine Chatham (former top CRCA rider). Chatham was really good for a cyclist audience — really insightful and really harsh or complimentary as appropriate.
PROSPECT PARK
JT, You must be stoped your out of control. I mean DAMN!
Why not tells us what your really thinking.
UGH
PP
JT
I’m sick. Can’t ride. Still can type. Guess I should watch cycling.tv instead.
Anthony-Cycling.tv
Hello, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for watching Cycling.tv and for responding to the interview. In particular, I was prompted to respond by the post from Justin about meeting a guy on the London Underground. Justin, it was me you met, thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening to the commentaries! Brian and I are enjoying giving you all an insight to this great sport. All the best.
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great interview…i was hoping for a little dig on anthony’s "water-bottle-banter"
by the way…that picture is waaay more disturbing than ANY of my colorful race reports.
thank god i already ate lunch!
One mistake is the backwards apple logo on the screen. Otherwise great interview.
Damn you LaCorte!!!
Those pictures are great. The dog watching Dan on the screen is hilarious. Is the dog supposed to be working?
All fixed now. Happy, Andrew?
Another network, World Championship Sports Network is doing cycling, skating, track, skiing and swimming. They are on the internet wcsn.com and also are getting into cable TV. In NYC they have some air time on SNY, the Mets new channel. I saw their track World’s and the cyclocross worlds. The quality was very good but it was shown on SNY months after the events. John Eustice was the commentator for the Cycling Cross. He thinks WCSN will do a lot more cycling and is working with them.
Besides Euro feeds it would be great to get some coverage for the USPRO cirucit. TV coverage is necessary to take USPRO to the next level.
If cycling-tv is doing the British pros , you’d think would do more coverage of the better USPRO races.
Long time hater of OLN ever since the Vuelta fiasco of 04′. They were going downhill long before that but that was the box that broke my back. I’m more than thrilled that you guys picked up the slack and can now say with a straight face that it is Cycling.tv that has it in the "BIG RING"!
We’re now trying hard to get coverage of U.S. races on cycling.tv – alot of it depends on race finances, frankly, because producing them is costly with Helis, motorbikes, stationary cams, etc. We hope to have alot more US racing coverage by this time next year.
Schmaltz, you are a knucklehead.
(Can we split the quarter?)
Hater – it doesn’t count if you misspell my name, you owe 12.5 cents
what do you think, is the bam chicka bam bam dog captivated by schmalz or the tulips in the backround?
Great interview, cycling.tv has been a god send this year. We all got to watch Paris-Roubaix and all of the spring classics live! What more can I say…
On another note, I guess we have to give oln, the only lance network, a small pat on the back for teaming up with cycling.tv for the giro.
I look forward to viewing/dowloading/cell phone watching and hopefully watching the u s pro tour series in the future. well done, I love watching cycling everyday.
I was in London last February and got on the Undergound after "more than a couple" of pints and proceeded to bore some poor guy who had a Tour of Britain bag and a copy of cycling weekly. Turned out he was one of the cycling.tv owners – not sure if it was one of the guys Schmaltz interviewed. Cool concept though – I’m a subscriber.
It looks like Tour of California would be a good kick-off. They have a pretty comprehensive site except nothing works. The Georgia race is also a great one, however the Tour of Gila race, USPRO, and others always slip through the cracks of video images to the US market. OLN just sorta left it all hanging – like a snub. A sorta no Lance, no coverage attitude just festered resentment to thier network. It was ridiculous. Eventually they stomped out the cyclng msg board and all that was left was "Beach Bikini game shows and Bar B Q cook offs and let us not forget the awesome Fishing coverage! I love Lance but OLN really hit ya over the head with the constant Lance-a-thon like mania. Who doesnt think the word "Cyclism" is a friggen stupid word? Even the commentation (Roll and on rare occasion sometimes Liggett) seemed to be the Postal/Discovery rah rah section. It was too much. Its refreshing to hear commentary on ALL of the athletes from Brian and Anthony. You guys keep it honest. Brain sorta reminds me of Sean Kelly Commentary. With listening to the both of you I can understand the successful formula for good cycling commentary. There has to be the wily pro (Brian, Sherwen,Kelly types) juxtaposed with the educated observer (McCrossan, Liggett, and that Eurosport guy Dave?) It works well. I liked Roll when he did Vuelta with Sherwin and the Domestic stuff, but it seemed like he couldnt do a race without praising the boss. Local commentation is just sad. I liken the tone to that of the Skateboard/Snowboard coverage. They try to generate excitement at dumb moments. Someone would go on an attack and the commentator would react as if he just saw someone do a backflip with an unspilled martini in hand.
SCHMULTZFUZ
You should spell your name like this and in all cap. all the time.
I will pay you the 12.5 cents the next time I see you…not really cause then I would have to come out from behind my leafy mask.
HATER SUCKS, SCHMULTZFUZ is entertaining and that lee3 comment is right on.
PP
Good post Lee!
Grow a hill, Prospect Park.
if this is what heroin is like, now i understand why people can’t stop…
Great work Schmalz! McCrossan and Smith are now a daily part of my cycling diet. The Cycling.TV/OLN deal is even better than when Peanut Butter met chocolate. Viva La Cycling.tv! I could not wipe the grin off my face after watching yesterday’s beautiful stage through the Italian woods leading up to that beautifully heartbreaking uphill finish of Axel Merckx. Truly a godsend!
The photo with the dog is amazing!
NOT LIVE but the DVD "PRO" has good coverage of the Philly Pro race from one year, and the other pro races in "Philly week." Really good.
What a gutsy ride by Axel! Just as the finish was happening my boss walked up on me. BUSTEAAAAAAD!
Also, back in the day Eustice produced coverage of the top men’s races at Harriman (the year Peter Mazur won — he’s now on Saunier Duval) and even a 70+ mile Floyd race. On video. I don’t know if he was ever able to get that on TV. Also Univest, which was shown on local TV in Penna.
I want to see footage of Andy Hampsten winning the Tour of Italy in 1989.
Faber, chocolate meeting peanut butter is nice, but the really good part is getting the chocolate *into* the peanut butter….
Who did the commentary for the Eustice production?
In the Eustice productions, some (Harriman and Floyd I think) were just Eustice and some had co-commentators. I saw a Univest with Vaughters co-commentating, and another with Catherine Chatham (former top CRCA rider). Chatham was really good for a cyclist audience — really insightful and really harsh or complimentary as appropriate.
JT, You must be stoped your out of control. I mean DAMN!
Why not tells us what your really thinking.
UGH
PP
I’m sick. Can’t ride. Still can type. Guess I should watch cycling.tv instead.
Hello, I just wanted to say thank you to all of you for watching Cycling.tv and for responding to the interview. In particular, I was prompted to respond by the post from Justin about meeting a guy on the London Underground. Justin, it was me you met, thanks for subscribing, thanks for listening to the commentaries! Brian and I are enjoying giving you all an insight to this great sport. All the best.