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GCN+ is dead

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  • #182
    omri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭omri


    Real shame as I actually enjoyed watching all of the tours without the ads. But that was the only reason to sub, so hard to say if it made financial sense if a lot of subscriptions were only for that reason.



  • #183
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122079838#Comment_122079838

    There is an ad-free option on Eurosport (I still have an old legacy subscription) so I imagine that will be the same for Discovery Plus



  • #184
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,753 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    There is an ad-free option for any race I've watched live or on demand on the Discovery Plus app.



  • #185
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    I’ve had discovery for nearly three years now. All races are ad free. For the big races, Eurosport coverage is included (ie the breakaway, pre race etc)



  • #186
    G1032
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭G1032


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122080080#Comment_122080080

    How do you get the ad free highlights? I get ad free live coverage but have to sit through ads on highlights



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  • #187
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,647 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    The D+ coverage has been superb; two versions of pretty much everything as far as I can see.
    The 'Eurosport' as-broadcast version (with ad breaks), and the full ad-free version.
    The Highlights offerings are patchy though, it being seemingly random which race/stage gets a highlights package or not.



  • #188
    Melodeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,647 ✭✭✭Melodeon


    The highlights packages all appear to be as-broadcast on Eurosport, so they all contain ad breaks.

    As far as I can see anyway.



  • #189
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,753 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    And I don't recall the highlights having ad breaks with GCN+, but I could be misremembering that.



  • #190
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,175 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Its such a kick in the teeth for the makers of all those documentaries to just have them sitting on a shelf somewhere.

    I used to love putting one of them on on the background. The GCN channel on YT recently had a video of Simon doing America's toughest gravel race. It has been viewed 163K times in just 4 days. And its just 16 minutes long.

    Think that could easily have been 45-60 minutes of interesting content without massively increasing their costs to produce it which lots of people would still be happy to watch.



  • #191
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,753 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122081966#Comment_122081966

    Not Highlights - I generally just watch the live coverage back (as eurosport "highlights" tend to be just the last half hour/ hour of a race anyway)



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  • #192
    G1032
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭G1032


    Ah! Do that myself sometimes, generally to get the last half hour or so of a race



  • #193
    G1032
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭G1032


    They didn't. Definitely not. Used to have a 5min and 25min highlight option on GCN+, ad free



  • #194
    omri
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭omri


    Subed for 1 month to D+ and boy isn't this a treat without the ads. Will do it again for TdF and Vuelta.



  • #195
    G1032
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭G1032


    Delete



  • #196
    loyatemu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 15,795 ✭✭✭✭loyatemu


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121378206#Comment_121378206

    bah, Sky have finally noticed that I was still getting D+ despite having downgraded to the Essentials package, and have cut me off.

    I've paid me 6.99 for the Giro, I assume there's no cheaper way of getting D+?

    Put your money where yer mouth is... Subscribe and Save Boards!

    https://subscriptions.boards.ie/



  • #197
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    GCN is back in the hands of its founder but their website is to be shut down with “up to 20 layoffs”

    Racing rights stay with WB, but the YouTube channel will continue under Play Network


    EDIT: for some reason a link won’t post but google will find it for you!



  • #198
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,175 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Some tough news tied to this thread.

    Cillian Kelly posted on Twitter today that he's finishing up with GCN. He mentioned in his tweet how he was heavily involved with GCN+ amongst other things and ended his post saying he's open for work.

    Stating the obvious but that means he was let go and hasn't been able to find anything up to this point.

    The former is obviously a direct consequence of the platform being shuttered.



  • #199
    ARX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 697 ✭✭✭ARX


    The German GCN channel looks like it's dead - both presenters left to start their own channel, and no videos have been posted in the last two months.



  • #200
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,729 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122261274#Comment_122261274

    AFAIK Cillian left a non-cycling job which must have been a decision he didn’t take lightly. Hope he gets to work in a field he clearly loves



  • #201
    JMcL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,602 ✭✭✭JMcL


    Feck. Aside from his analytics role (which I assume ground to a halt when GCN+ was shot) his videos were generally very good



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  • #202
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122268603#Comment_122268603

    Is it just me or is there less GCN content recently too? I have YouTube on the living room TV and I'd often turn it on and watch when I got a bit of free time but the last few times there seemed to be nothing worth watching



  • #203
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,175 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122269240#Comment_122269240

    My immediate response was that I felt that the depth and variety of their content had scaled back dramatically. But this is a screen shot of their content of the last 2 weeks approximately.

    image.png

    Granted it has a 2 hour compilation in there of old videos but aside from that it doesn't look all that dissimilar to how it has looked over the last couple of years. Maybe more shorter videos, but there's still a good variety.



  • #204
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,175 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    There might be less and less going forward it seems.

    Saw another tweet today from someone saying they are leaving GCN (behind the scenes staff member it looks like), also with nothing lined up. That led to a response from someone saying it has been sold back to the original owners and the website is getting the bullet.

    It's still up but signs that its not going to last long. Several posts over a couple days a week ago, nothing since.

    image.png


  • #205
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 53,397 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i watched a video yesterday, on the GCN tech channel, which was 5 months old.

    interestingly, having read about the change of ownership, the line in the video 'if you like this video, please give it a thumbs up, we need it now more than ever' stood out.



  • #206
    Junior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,266 ✭✭✭Junior


    Dan Benson has gotten let go as well, so that doesn't auger well ..

    https://x.com/dnlbenson/status/1802960648613052464?t=9LEg_k0uINZoS0dzfT6Ihg&s=08


  • #207
    gmacww
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 499 ✭✭gmacww


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122273567#Comment_122273567

    That comment (ollie if memory serves me) stood out for me too. When I heard that I thought oh they are under the pump now or being canned.



  • #208
    magicbastarder
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    Yep, Ollie - on the video about the lightest bike they'd seen. Was kinda frustrating, he didn't actually ride the bike!



  • #209
    magicbastarder
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    i've just cued it up;

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok4aeAv8mfc

    they say they're bringing the documentaries back. they're going to create a membership scheme on youtube to access the documentaries again.

    they suggest it'll give them some more freedom to choose their own direction again.



  • #210
    magicbastarder
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    just on the docs - they were talking about the already existing docs, and finishing the production on some unfinished ones. i don't think they mentioned they'd spin up any new ones - Si mentioned they're a lot of work to make.



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  • #211
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,098 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Dan lloyd gone from eurosport now, as part of the recent gcn sale

    https://twitter.com/daniellloyd1/status/1805630870562217999


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