I saw a thing mentioned on PB's piece about the 2023 Scotland World Championships, there was an "indoor cycle" category. I hope it's not sponsored by Zwift or Peloton...
UCI / Discovery channel
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Peloton pretends they are not bikes nor the fitness industry but a startup so I'd be surprised they'd sponsor it. Then again their stock tanked so I doubt they are keen on sponsoring. Zwift probably makes more sense. Still. Why? If people want to compete in indoor cycling I can rent them my magnetic trainer I used in the past and then make them use my 53mm coil headphones to listen to some podcasts. I did try it once before physics reminded me why that's a bad idea.
Isn't this already a thing and on the Zwift platform?
And yes people are already e-doping.
they even talk about virtual olympics in that job description and uci approved trainers
They know something we don't. Covid 23 is coming!
Old dudes running sports unions know shit. FIS in the 80s put a bet on skibobing over snowboarding which they thought would be a temporary fad.They know something we don't. Covid 23 is coming!
Virtual COVID, you heard it here first!They know something we don't. Covid 23 is coming!
So a computer virus? If it hits all the eSport equipment, then that is something I could get behind.
NOOOOOOOOO, not the gaming equipment
I don't want it. But we all know the one person who does.
Woke up a 4 am for the Dogs,turn on the Telly,and there I am sleepy eye’d looking at the President of Dish Network(my CA’s cable provider)saying Disco and Dish cannot see eye to eye on a new Contract. Disco wants 1 Billion from Dish,Dish said No! So I have no,ABC,ESPN,National Geo and other’s.
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Well I am glad it helps you norbar.
I put the post up to show how Greedy Disco is. They want you to Stream or Pay Me! I don’t know what I am going todo next DH season? I have said here I will pay whatever it takes to see my DH. I dont know,I’ll make the call when the time comes. It is a cluster fuck right now.
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More Warner Bros Discovery layoffs | LinkedIn
Cost-cutting moves aren't over yet at recently merged Warner Bros. Discovery, anonymous sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
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Are they making room for Rob, Claudio and the rest of the team?
More Warner Bros Discovery layoffs | LinkedIn
Cost-cutting moves aren't over yet at recently merged Warner Bros. Discovery, anonymous sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
Are they making room for Rob, Claudio and the rest of the team?
source
Naaah. They are merging 2 companies and trimming the fat. I'm surprised there are layoffs at disco since Zas was always pretty bullish on not spending money chasing trends but who knows. Generally the industry now has a ton of layoffs because everyone was chasing netflix's unsustainable, dumb model of "lets spend infinite money because the stock market rewards subscriber numbers instead of positive cash flow (screw anyone talking about ebitda)". This meant everyone had too much cash and spent it on stupid unsustanable things. Now they are getting rid of those things since startup cosplay season has ended.
Not that I am here to defend Disco but they are fine here. If they are going to lose UCI rights it won't be for this reason and since it's already paid for I doubt we will see the chance for Redbull to reclaim the feed for at least a few years (I do really hope it's not as long as some deals with Disco I know of)
What are the odds that Discovery winds up just deciding that it's not worth actually making the investment to broadcast the races? Would purchasing the rights actually obligate them to do anything? I know absolutely nothing about broadcast rights, but I worry about the situation in a large company where leadership changes or someone no longer thinks that it's worth pursuing based on the likely ROI and they either do an absolutely minimal job or just sit on the rights and don't bother actually airing anything.
One camera at the finish line linked to a Starlink network upload.
i for one am of the mindset that they were after XCO, DH was just a BOGO as far as the UCI was concerned (spoiler: they weren't)
isn't this what happened with Rocky Roads, when Red Bull took over? Rocky Roads couldn't deliver (no surprise to anyone), so Red Bull were awarded the rights (probably for a song).
oh man, i forgot about this
ridemonkey.bikemag.com
Rocky Roads Partners with UCI - What the Hell is Rocky Roads?!
Some very bizarre developments in the world of cycling have come through today. From what we can tell, a complete scam website has ponied up to become the title sponsor of the UCI World Cup...press release inside. --- Source: UCI The International Cycling Union (UCI) today signed an...
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The chances are near zero. I don't know much about the details of sports rights, never acquired anything sports related but I don't get the idea as to why disco would not follow it. The leadership didn't change at Discovery. It's constant. It won't change for a while. Also given the cost of the rights the actual production costs are relatively small for downhill (just some cameras and some cables. Waaaaay cheaper than filming TDF) and you can probably hire some outside company to produce it anyway. Other costs are non existant. They have platforms to show it. Not to mention everyone is going gaga for sports rights right now. Hell Cricket in India alone is worth 3 billion USD for a few years (or a year) and while India is a big country that's for 2 months in a country where people pay 2-3 USD per month. Very few sports rights deals end up in the red (everyone laughed at Endeavor buying UFC for billions and they won big on that).
I have no idea why is everyone thinking that Discovery will sudenly collapse (they are making good strategic decisions. Those are not panic cuts) or that the deal will somehow fall back into redbull. Not that it's impossible but we have ZERO info that make me think that it is probable.
You are probably correct even though I think it's dumb. I assume this deal was led by eurosport people and XCO and Road are close so the people who won big on road wanted it's special cusin too but it's dumb because DH is just a better show. If you market it right it can easily be much bigger than XCO. DH has clear rules, it's easy to watch and it looks good plus it's unpredictable and it creates great stories. The problem is sports TV people usually don't understand storytelling. Rarely you get a case where they do and in those cases you get boom times like UFC after that dumb reality show they had (not that I'm saying DH will be as big as MMA)
Please no. Starlink has fuckton of problems plus it's a garbage idea. The number of satelites they need in orbit and how slowly they fall from it creates a possible kessler problem. Maybe let's not make our orbit unusable because some weird rich dude wants his satelite internet have low latency for gaming so he goes for low orbit and thousands of satelites instead of high orbit and tens of them.
please do explain how low orbit satellites contribute to a kessler problem
The main problem Starlink has unraveled is how every other gazillionaire out there wants his own constellation of satellites in low orbit. Amazon/Bezos will start shoveling their Kuiper ones up there at the end of the year, China wants to have an alternative for obvious reasons, and some other European companies plan to overcrowd LEO too.
I have a friend who is an astronomer, and he tells me astrophotography is already fucked up just from the existing 2000+ Starlink satellites. And it's only getting worse.
Where have I heard this before.....??? Ah yes: Cheap mass transportation for everyone -> ICE cars, cheap flights,.... That did not go wrong at all, did it.
But glad that you support cheap internet for everyone, at least for how long it lasts. When the Kessler syndrome hits, bye bye cheap satellite-based internet, weather forecasts, GPS, Earth observation, etc. But at least we had cheap internet.
The problem isn't bad space photos but us being possibly unable to leave the planet or have any new satelite beause douchebros are chasing trends and going for LEO satelites instead of HEO satelites. With HEO you get worse latency but you need orders of magnitude fewer satelites.
The problem is the satelites don't deorbit in 5 years. We also currently have 4550 satelites orbiting earth. Starlink plans 42 000 satelites in total. So with Starlink we go TEN TIMES our previous number of satelites.
Will Starlink Satellites Become Space Junk One Day? SpaceX Has an (Imperfect) Plan.
SpaceX said those satellites will naturally de-orbit and burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
observer.com
Also Starlink business model is not sustainable so the company will go bankcrupt or will raise prices. So what cheap internet?
Future for the orbit looks more and more as in Wall-E, except we are still to find out who's going to be Buy N' Large...
It's beyond me US can't regulate musks duchebaggery literally in any field from FCC violations to destroying LEO.Future for the orbit looks more and more as in Wall-E, except we are still to find out who's going to be Buy N' Large...