Warner sells GCN back to original owners

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I think it was the other way 'round.
Eurosport (Warner) had the rights and when they bought PlaySports, GCN got access so they could put together GCN+.

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well shucks, there goes my favorite commentator on The Breakaway.

If Iā€™m reading his tweet correctly, he is staying on but in a different role?

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Dan will continue to work for GCN (PlaySports), where he has been from the beginning, doing videos like The GCN Show, etc. He wonā€™t be working on the Break Away or commentating on races, as those are produced by Eurosport (Warner) since GCN and Eurosport are no longer part of the same larger organization.

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It is a shame Dan will not be commentating anymore, he was one of the best on there.

On the plus side, the news of this got me excited to hear the GCN+ documentaries would be available again. However, the Ā£12.99 (UK) per month subscription price via YouTube to get access to the docs, is a bit too expensive for me personally unfortunately

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Yeah, I want to support GCN, but the pricing for their mid/high membership levels seems quite high for what you get. I gladly would have paid that for the continuation of GCN+ with one-stop-shopping for all the races. They vastly under-priced GCN+ and seem to be vastly over-pricing this. Still, Iā€™ll probably subscribe to the low level membership ā€“ not because I give a damn about ā€œcustom emojisā€, but just to toss a bit of support and give something back for all the free YouTube content.

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I like what GCN has done in the past, but I am just not going to pay for another subscription service related to cycling. It is getting a bit ridiculous. Not that I subscribe to all of them but one could go broke between training services, wearables, Strava, Zwift, Max, Peacock, etc. etc.

If their business plan is to rely on subscriptions, I bet this thing dies within a couple years. I watched the docs and other stuff cause it was packaged with the racing. I wouldnā€™t pay for it alone.

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My house was the opposite, years without closed captions meant racing wasnā€™t viable, even the highlights made after the ending didnā€™t have them (and I know how easy VOD captioning is). Documentaries were a good easy watch, and most of them had captions.

The app and player wasnā€™t great but YouTube is so potentially this could be good.

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I am interested to see how much new content they produce in future.

How much new content (presuming the quality at least stays the same) is needed to sustain Ā£12.99 per month?

How much free content is needed to build an audience and to tempt non subscribers to upgrade?

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I believe the answer to both questions is A LOT, which I do not believe is possible.

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