Author Topic: Sky to sponsor British Cycling  (Read 1738 times)

JT

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Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« on: 24 July, 2008, 10:45:10 am »
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/bcf/News2008/20080724_Sky_Deal.asp

I'm no fan of Sky but this is pretty big for cycling.
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Chris S

Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #1 on: 24 July, 2008, 10:48:16 am »
So I guess we can kiss goodbye to cycling coverage on non-murdoch TV then?

Great... I suppose  ::-).

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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #2 on: 24 July, 2008, 10:48:35 am »
And they are sponsoring Freewheel this year...

YAY good for them!
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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #3 on: 24 July, 2008, 10:51:25 am »
Just because Sky are sponsoring them, doesn't mean you will only see doemtic events on SKY, come to think of it Eurosports is the ONLY place you can see domestic events, apart from on Cycling.tv....

So no real change, the Pro-Tour etc will stay with it usual braodcasters, and domestic races may get more coverage.  Win-Win I say...
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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #4 on: 24 July, 2008, 12:33:25 pm »
Cool. It has just inspired me to fire off an email to investigate the possibility of a city centre crit in Dundee for next summer..

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tiermat

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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #5 on: 24 July, 2008, 12:36:09 pm »
Why not? If Brighouse can do it, I'm certain Dundee can...

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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #6 on: 25 July, 2008, 01:16:59 pm »
Or Colne for that matter.

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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #7 on: 29 July, 2008, 11:11:48 am »
This is Richard Williams' (Chief Sports Writer of The Guardian) take on things.
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Re: Sky to sponsor British Cycling
« Reply #8 on: 29 July, 2008, 10:20:53 pm »
Good stuff potentially: Sky bought half a page announcing this in this WE Observer as well as a full page in OSM. They are comitted. I see where Richard Williams is coming from though. I hope he is wrong.
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