awesome, thanks!
@Power13 bye bye $150 for 12 months, hello world feed without the streaming drama of SBS (will it work or won’t it?).
Instantaneous scrubbing thru today’s Stage 3 on-demand replay. I love Vancouver BC. Happy dance. 
OMG im arguing with my boomer buddy who loves the US feed and thinks Ant and Nick are a snooze fest
this boomer hates the NBC commercial fest, not going to reward them with my $$$
Technically, yes. but the real issue is that an AppleID is tied to a specific Apple Store region. So, to download a UK app, you need to change the Apple Store location tied to your AppleID.
Apple makes it very difficult to change that. I think you can only make the change every 90 days. And you have other restrictions (Change your Apple ID country or region - Apple Support).
To make things even more complicated, in order to have an AppleID tied to the UK Apple Store, you need to provide a UK address, a UK phone number and a UK payment card.
It’s a real challenge. and even though I’m happy that I’ve done it, I would not recommend it.
Spend the 6 bucks to upgrade your feed to the almost-commercial free.
I don’t understand all the hate on US commentators. /s Calling out corrections to what Phil (and a lesser extent Bob) say is part of the fun. Phil - 1998 was the last time anyone did the double, not 1988. I’m almost ready to make that correction a drinking game.
But it isn’t almost commercial free, they still cut to commercials at inopportune times. If you pay the extra $6 they should unlock the world feed for you. That is commercial free, and you don’t get the poor commentary from Phil and Bob.
The US broadcast is full of ass-slapping, captain obvious commentary, and a comedic level of errors.
The World feed offers good insight and strategy.
No comparison and I hope someone shares this thread with NBC/Peacock
I’d be interested in understanding NBC/Peacock’s rational for not offering only the world feed.
There can’t be many casual watchers who tune in to the Peacock TdF broadcast idiocy for hours on end. Bike racing simply is not very exciting unless you know something about what you are watching. It’s not like a nascar fan wanders over to the sports tab, sees cycling then clicks on bike racing and proceeds to watch 3, 4, 5 hours of a TdF peloton rolling along.
I’d think the majority of US views buying Peacock for cycling coverage just want basic good commentary. Simply putting up the world feed with Cossan and Nico would be absolutely fine. How could that not be cheaper than three guys in a studio, CVV on a Moto, Steve P doing whatever it is he does, and moving Bob and Phil around stage to stage?
Commercial free is a nice to have and I’d pay a premium for that.
On a positive note, it is amusing listening to Bobke trying to keep up with correcting all of Phil’s misstatements.
That’s what I did. It’s great and I paid for a full year of racing coverage.
Am I doing something wrong? I’m still getting insane amounts of commercials on the $12 peacock plan.
My plea to fellow Americans: for the sake of better future cycling coverage, please please please please boycott all of the current crappy options. The only way we will decent coverage is all of the current non-cycling focused companies (e.g., NBC, Peacock, Etc) give up on buying rights to races for the US because no one watches. Then maybe we will get an option like we had with GCN+
Agree and thats what I did. VPNs are not illegal in the United States. Just a few days in and FloBikes has been great so far. I actually like hearing Phil’s voice when the official TdF feed is showing some historical site or geographical feature. But not at the end of the race when he can’t call it as it happens.
One reason Paul (RIP) and Phil worked was because he politely smoothed over Phil’s errors. However last year I watched NBC (on FuboTV) and the commercials were relentless. Bob doesn’t smooth over Phil’s errors, he stops whatever possibility there is for color commentary and points it out like someone yelling “car back” and there is no car coming up from behind.
For all those reasons, and learning there was no world feed this year, I absolutely could not support NBC & Peacock.
If someone finds an email for NBC to complain, please post.
Maybe we need to start a change.org petition for NBC to give up all ASO rights 
If I hear “full cry” 
one more time…
There is no text highlighting helicopter flyovers of villages, monuments , castles, monasteries & chateau on the nbc feed. Also Phil & Bob made zero mention when the tour crossed into France today ( stage 4) They were too busy harping on some minute detail.
Ha I feel like you guys are all hitting the final stage of grief (acceptance) that @Power13 and I did back in like February when we just gave in and signed up for Flo for the year. I will never stop hating them for their stupid spoiler YouTube clips, but for better or worse they’re the least bad option in the US right now in terms of ease of signup and viewership. They have apps on major platforms, and with a VPN app + the Flosports app on Apple TV I can watch on the big screen as well with a few button presses.
It’s just an american football halftime show. Why they have decided it fits cycling is beyond me though. Flo+vpn for me. I was going to claw my ears off.
thank you @Power13 and @tgarsonz - I had one or two spring classics and the Giro on Fubo Sports and skipped signing up for Flo until now. But definitely missed out on a bunch of Flo spring classics content. I’m good to go until the TdF next year.
You’ll still get some ads - mostly NBC promo stuff and The Feed. Think of these as in-stream commercials. What you don’t get are the injected commercials that are more mass market. The pay off is if you stream and pause to build lead time you can fast forward through commercials. In replay you can do the same. So, there will always be some commercials, but you don’t have to watch them.