SEC 2021 4th and final  round Saturday 10th July Rybnik... live on Eurosport Player

[racers and royals]

11 minutes ago, LesR said:

I have just received a reply from Eurosport, see below. Don't know if anyone spell checks their emails, strange that they have trouble spelling Eurosport!

Hello Mr *** ******

Thank you for contacting Europsort Customer Support.

I understand that you wish to know if we will be broadcasting the Speedway European Championship, and I will gladly check for you.

After verification, I see that the event will be broadcast on one of our bonus channels and not the main ones. To access our bonus channel, you need to have a subscription directly from our website https://auth.eurosportplayer.com/product and you will have access to all the devices listed here.

I am happy we are providing the Speedway fans with more events to enjoy, and I hope you will get to watch the Speedway European Championship.

I hope this answers your question, and I remain available shall you need further information.

Have a nice day!

Kind regards,

Zineb
Eurosport Customer Support

I would suggest you reply and ask why  they are not showing it on their main channels when they have nothing live on at the time on either channel and there are 2 British riders in the meeting.

[RobMcCaffery]

44 minutes ago, Silver Cheetah Snr said:

Would you tell us how you already subscribe to Eurosport if not the player.

My Virgin Media subscription includes Eurosport. It's not priced separately as with BT Sport but a proportion of my sub goes to Eurosport monthly. 

 

[Grand Central]

1 hour ago, Silver Cheetah Snr said:

Would you tell us how you already subscribe to Eurosport if not the player.

Through virgin in my case.

It's really not difficult to work out that people usually get access to eurosport via means other than the player.

[Steve Shovlar]

1 hour ago, LesR said:

Or iptv pro with a vpn

Hi Les, please explain. I use a vpn and have Sportsmania as my go-to for my sports channels. But they don’t stream Polish Eurosport, only U.K. Eurosport.

Edited June 15, 2021 by Steve Shovlar

[RobMcCaffery]

10 minutes ago, Grand Central said:

Through virgin in my case.

It's really not difficult to work out that people usually get access to eurosport via means other than the player.

Under the present system, unlike Sky Sports, BT Sport and Premier Sports there is no extra charge for Eurosport which is included in most pay-TV basic bundles.

It means that they are one of many hungry mouths taking a small share of Virgin or Sky subscriptions. One way to increase revenue is to encourage the sale of subscriptions to their  Eurosport Player. I see various charges and offer s mentioned but £6.99 a month seems to be the most commonplace charge. 

So, how to encourage sales? Transfer programming from  the main channel to the Player and that would seem to be at the root of this latest fiasco. It was perhaps understandable on a busy Saturday night to shift the speedway  onto a 'Bonus' (sic) channel but clearly not on Wednesday where the refusal to move recorded programming is clearly a product of greed or stupidity. 

Ah yes, 'bonus' channels. These come normally as part of the regular subscription prices. In BT's case you pay for four channels and get a varying number of 'bonus' channels according to need, say busy European football nights. Hence they are a bonus.

Requiring an additional  subscription to watch such channels makes the name 'bonus' ironic at best. To call the Player extra channels 'bonus' is shifty management speak \at its worst. Next they'll say we have a wonderful opportunity to pay for Eurosport Player.

Most people subscribed to Eurosport don't know they do. They pay Sky or Virgin for a bundle of channels, most of which include Eurosport  and few know or care.

It's a long way from Eurosport's origins as a joint venture between Sky and Eurovision in 1989 when it was Sky's only sport channel. Yes, Eurovision, the alliance of European state broadcasters is more than a ridiculous song contest.

Still, we've  got all those wonderful superbikes to watch. 

I'd meant to stick to basic facts in this forum and keep opinion out after painful experience outside the international section. Only Eurosport could have sabotaged that. Back to the basics of what to see and when now....

 

[nw42]

Someone posted at weekend that there is a free weeks trial for Eurosport player, which there is, but then someone else said this would be limited and may not include the part that will be showing the live speedway, can anyone confirm this either way?

Edited June 15, 2021 by nw42
week not month

[racers and royals]

I have just sent this email to a top Eurosport executive

Dear sir,

Eurosport have the rights to the European speedway championships which are the 3rd most important speedway events on the calendar( 4 rounds) The series is promoted by a Polish company Onesport ltd and i think the contract was done by Eurosport Poland.

The first round was scheduled for last Saturday- live on Eurosport Poland but was unfortunately rained off and re-scheduled for this Wednesday June 16th again live on Eurosport Poland.

As far as British viewers Saturday was scheduled to be shown on the Eurosport player because of other live sport on the main channels.

This Wednesday it is again scheduled for the player despite there being no live sport on Eurosport 1 or 2.

There are a lot of angry British speedway fans like myself extremely disappointed with your scheduling decision. Tomorrow's meeting starts at 6pm UK time at Bydgoszcz one of the great race tracks of the world and has 2 British riders competing.

Please will you consider to make the sensible decision to show the meeting on one of your main channels.

 

[chrismorton]

How about just sacking it off and watching a re-run of Panthers v Wolves...I would say Swedish speedway but it's just so boring.

[nw42]

7 minutes ago, chrismorton said:

How about just sacking it off and watching a re-run of Panthers v Wolves...I would say Swedish speedway but it's just so boring.

Watching last night's meeting now, not bad at all so far.

[Rosie76]

On 6/13/2021 at 9:19 AM, racers and royals said:

ukcomms@eurosport.com 

Hi Racers and Royals. Firstly thanks for all the input you put in on telling us what speedway can be viewed and for writting to Eurosport. I have wrote the following to them :-

I have just seen on the British Speedway Forum a member has sent you the following e-mail shown at the end of my e-mail. I fully support what he says. I would also like to add the following. Many people who view your main channels get them free as part of their package with another supplier e.g. Virgin or Sky. They may have taken the fact in to account that Eurosport was included when they purchased that package. If you cannot show the meeting live on your main channels, then I request, please can you put a full recording of it on one of these channels as soon as your schedule can fit it and ensuring it goes on the TV menus, so people know it is being shown. If you feel this is a regular occurrence that it will be shown only on your player, please be honest and say so, that way a small percentage of the many speedway fans (currently unhappy with speedway being moved to the e-player) may be willing to purchase the player. I believe there has also been a suggestion that Speedway fans can watch other motorsports on your channel. I have been a speedway fan all my live and know many fans. I would say the majority who watch speedway are unlikely to watch the other types of motorsports you show, and very view fans own a motorbike.

 

[racers and royals]

12 minutes ago, Rosie76 said:

 

Good on you Rosie- we shall see if we both get answers. Yours will be from customer services and will probably not answer the points raised as a previous posters quoted reply showed( couldn’t even spell his own companies name correctly). Mine i will be really dissapointed if i don’t get a sensible answer as i wrote to a London based senior Discovery director responsible for their complete sports output.

[Rosie76]

Hi Racersand Royals,

 

I am quite happy to write or e-mail the director if you would like to let me know the details. Sorry I could not see how to do private messages on here. Being a Racers fan you might be interested in my comments I made tonight regarding the leasing of Oxford Stadium on the general discussions, Oxford page.

 

[Neila]

Eurosport were doing an offer for the app/iPlayer at £19.99 for the year, don't think that's a bad price for sec and league meetings, plus various other motorsports

[RobMcCaffery]

Interesting to see Eurosport trying to  push their app on Farcebook. Response is fans of several sports including ours telling them  to stick it where the sun doesn't shine and they're not paying more for their sub-standard and unreliable coverage. It's not just us.

 

[RobMcCaffery]

Another classic from these shysters on Farcebook. A Swindon fan complained about the lack of weekly coverage of British speedway. Get this one - they're blaming Covid and that they do not have clearance to use all six venues, despite having used three with a fourth one to come..Incidentally WSB and tennis fans are livid about similar treatment forcing them to  subscribe to the Eurosport Player or App. It's not just us. 

Here's their latest insult to the intelligence. It closed with a link to the page where they could subscribe tom the Eurosport Player. which somehow I've omitted, but it is available on RMC Player, a snip at just £19.99 a month ;-)

 

Hi Dave, first of all I would like to say that I completely understand your need to get this clarified, but at the moment, due to the ongoing restrictions we are still waiting for confirmation on whether live broadcasts from the venues will be possible. In this case, please keep bookmark our schedule and keep an eye out for updates

 

Edited June 16, 2021 by RobMcCaffery

[RobMcCaffery]

5 minutes ago, RobMcCaffery said:

Another classic from these shysters on Farcebook. A Swindon fan complained about the lack of weekly coverage of British speedway. Get this one - they're blaming Covid and that they do not have clearance to use all six venues, despite having used three with a fourth one to come..Incidentally WSB and tennis fans are livid about similar treatment forcing them to  subscribe to the Eurosport Player or App. It's not just us. 

Here's their latest insult to the intelligence. It closed with a link to the page where they could subscribe tom the Eurosport Player. which somehow I've omitted, but it is available on RMC Player, a snip at just £19.99 a month ;-)

 

Hi Dave, first of all I would like to say that I completely understand your need to get this clarified, but at the moment, due to the ongoing restrictions we are still waiting for confirmation on whether live broadcasts from the venues will be possible. In this case, please keep bookmark our schedule and keep an eye out for updates

 

Right, got to watch the blood pressure - back to the needlepoint and crochet.....Apologies for the rant but it was only so long before Eurosport's plastic smile melted. 

 

[Bash]

They are obviously trying to recoup money from British fans for covering the premiership, but they are not just doing it with speedway, just greed.

[racers and royals]

Link for tonight 6pm UK time  http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html

[chrismorton]

It is annoying and I can't be doing with those dodgy Polish websites so I ordered Premier sports for £10 pm for 6 months and I can't keep up with all the speedway.. normally 4 matches a week with English commentary...granted 2 of them are Swedish which is boring but the Polish league stuff is top class.

[Bunce]

1 hour ago, racers and royals said:

Link for tonight 6pm UK time  http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html

Thanks for the link R & R. I do find streaming some of these sites can be a bit trying with pop up ads and buffering etc, but generally I get to watch the matches OK, and over the last year have managed to keep tabs on Moto GP and all the Norwich City matches as well!