The powers that be have decided that taking people's money through legal live streaming in the United States is just not good enough. Last year, Universal Sports allowed sports fans to purchase streaming events a la carte, but then Comcast made the purchase of NBC complete, Versus became NBCSports, Universal Sports became some weird orphan cable channel, and all sorts of contracts and previous agreements were changed going forward, so that I couldn't even watch the Vuelta a Espana.
Nowadays, one cannot even watch video programs on Universal Sports unless you are a satellite subscriber, which is odd, because you could just watch their programs on your TV, but whatever. And also, beIN Sport, known for soccer coverage, will be broadcasting the Giro this year, and that channel is only available on Comcast, Dish, DirecTV, and Verizon FiOS. If something becomes too much a hassle to watch, then I'm just not going to watch it.
Unfortunately, without watching several hours of furious (and boring) pedaling, I won't know what little jot of info will strike me as interesting that also won't be emphasized in the cycling press. Who else would put a screencap of a wookie on a blog post? So, this year, I'm just going to be a fan, read text updates like the old days of 2003. Oh, I think they call that the Twitters these days. Cycling media sure has changed in 10 years, huh?
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