Best coverage - ITV4 or Eurosport?

I love Kelly for me he is one of the big big favourites and I never have to make a calculation about which channel to watch

ITV4 do a good job however the amount of adverts ruins the coverage for me

Both pretty good.

The guys commentate for hours , a real skill to remain enthusiastic and not repetitive.
Compare them with the drivel served up in football for example .

I tend to use Eurosport , but switch to ITV4 as well.

Listening to Phil Liggett brings back fond memories of Channel Fours highlights back in the day , some great commentary back then such as Roche chasing down Delgado.

I recall seeing 15 minutes highlights of the previous weeks racing on World Of Sport  .....so no moaning about 21st century coverage !

Liggett is unwatchable these days, makes so many mistakes its time he hung up his mic, getting like brian moore was at the end of his career, dates, times, peoples name all over the shop.

Eurosport for the live coverage, kelly is worth far more from a betting insight

ITV4 for after the race and highlights, Imlach and Boardman are excellent

Eurosport for me. Starts earlier and the 6 moto cam feeds they offer live streams swings it.

On a different note Roche and Delgado's son's are fighting it out in the junior category races at the moment!

Greg Lemond on Eurosport a great bonus , legend from a golden era and the only clean yank winner .

Can not even contemplate watching Eurosprt while Carlton Kirby commentates ( i take it he is still doing it?) So has to be ITV for me.
If I have to watch cycling on Eurosprt i watch it with out the sound as Kirby just makes my skin crawl with his bumbling inaccurate commentaries.

Liggett is not the best commentator either but he is miles better than Kirby. Also like Boardman think his analysis is usually interesting, so would be ITV every time for me.

The add breaks on both p*ss me off

But I am now only washing my hair with Alpecin and have a well earned holiday booked in Israel......

Happybacker    25 Jul 15 12:44 
Can not even contemplate watching Eurosprt while Carlton Kirby commentates ( i take it he is still doing it?) So has to be ITV for me.
If I have to watch cycling on Eurosprt i watch it with out the sound as Kirby just makes my skin crawl with his bumbling inaccurate commentaries.

Ditto for me. Kelly is excellent but unfortunately saddled with a nausiating, unbalanced cretin - he must have the patience of a saint.

Here in Australia there are media laws which dictate that free-to-view tv networks get first rights on live sporting event broadcasts, so the cable guys which broadcast cycling through Eurosport Australia missed out against public national network SBS, also known as the Special Broadcasting Service. They've been into cycling for decades, when no one was even interested, so I have no problems with them presenting the Tour even though the host Mike Tomalaris can talk some nonsense at length. This year they invited a former top little Aussie sprinter -- you might know -- to do analysis by the name of Robbie McEwen, and he's been great, really top-shelf stuff.

The initial intro such as what has already happened on the road in a stage, and a bit of the lead-in to live pics has been done by the most boring comm in cycling, Australian Matt Keenan, whom is not irritating or anything but rather just boring and not inventive. I think you guys got a listen of him somehow in some race a year or two ago, I recall. Anyway, then SBS plug into the World Feed, which I understand you guys get through your ITV4, with Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin. I've grown up on these two when Phil was the "brand" with his 'voice-of-cycling' moniker, and Sherwin was just relatively new, I believe. Agree that Liggett is losing his precision, and sometimes Sherwin just goes along with him which lowers his own standard, when he can usually be relied upon to be a rock of information and observations; but if SBS passed than I would've had the British Eurosport feed which I get for much of the year and most of the WT races.

(Rob Hatch is probably my favourite comm of the British guys, he gives some great calls on races when it's just him and conditions might be really tough and he absolutely doesn't miss a beat, nails it, and even has time to answer your questions on Twitter. Superb! Magnus Backstedt is on the opposite side of the spectrum, just find that he has no intelligence and flare for cycling commentary -- he is usually quite good to oppose and win, actually.)

I watch the races which Kirby calls on mute also -- can't stand the irritating prat and I've told him so on twitter to only get blocked! Really enjoy Kelly though, but he can get it wrong pretty often. What I cannot stand about Kirby though, is that he would rather explain the variety of cheese they make in some area the peloton is passing through, instead of discussing the race-winning moves on the road. The guy has got no idea imo, although he can surprise you, but I am entirely bitter about his presence so he'll never win me back.

Anyway, thought I would just offer an opinion from the other side of the world, and therefore it would be ITV4 for me, or what I got as the World Feed through SBS.

Cheers,
SP

Interesting that mate