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.
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.
then they couldn’t sell their partner’s ads. Part of me thinks their partners don’t want to have them split the audience between ad and no ad audiences even if we want to pay for that privilege.
I can’t believe the $0.25 per ad that the feed pays, and the incremental revenue collected, wouldn’t be offset by not having the seven amigos and the production costs
Flo really makes it easy to spoil the race for yourself. Thumbnail of the winner interview and I got 98k to go to see. Also ruined Girmay result because it was plasters all over the Flo front page. Oh well. Not that big of a deal
The spoilers on Flo was one of the major reasons I did not renew - I complained about this specifically several years ago, so they know this is a problem that is causing subscribers to bail. I really don’t see the benefit that they get from this - it’s really hard to understand why they insist on continuing to do this.
If the changed to be fully no-spoilers - so I could find and watch replays of races later without spoiling that or other races I would seriously consider resubscribing.
i’m with you. that’s exactly the reason i want to switch to a non peacock/nbc broadcast. i feel like Phil’s reading the newspaper out loud vs the drama/intensity I got used to on GCN+
I’ve fully converted to the Aussie feed, but just for kicks listened to him call the last 1 km of these last two sprints. Absolutely hilarious 10/10, strongly recommend
alternate take: there’s nothing wrong with the peacock coverage commentary. phil and bob are perfectly fine and are just as good, if not better than mr eurosport “feeeelllleeeeeeeeeeeppppooo gaaaaaaaanaaaaaa” rob hatch. sean kelly is probably the best of them all if only for the fact that he pretty much says nothing during 7 hours of coverage
i skipped last year so i was expecting phil liggett to be this incomprehensible dementia patient based on the comments here, but that’s just not the case. he’s on top of it all and a lot of the time it’s bob roll who’s making the mistakes.
i could most definitely do without the 3 guys in the studio. no idea what they’re bringing to the table and i desperately search for the FF button whenever they’re on
one more time…
