At this point, for me, it makes sense to try and set this up on my partner’s Apple TV. Right now she is forced to watch the Peacock feed and not happy about it.
For myself, I actually like the portability of the IPad. And I can cast to the Apple TV for big screen viewing.
Flo 
- do you know offhand if they are carrying the Vuelta?
Yes…all ASO races.
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I am guessing you can connect to the UK app store simply using VPN on your new apple device correct?
Thanks for showing us the way dude.
Thanks. Sorry I tried scrolling back but busy at work. Do I have this correct? 1. Sign up with Flo in USA. 2. Verify it works in USA. 3. Point VPN to Canada, and enjoy international feed.
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Correct.
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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. 
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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 $$$
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GF likes the US feed, I’m indifferent.
However I’m currently annoyed because I rewound the live feed a bit when I got to work. They were literally saying there is 5k to go and the live feed cut out!!!
I’d demand my money back but it’s free so.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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+
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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.
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