Anyone know if the cycling channel launching on Sky tomorrow is part of the Sky Sports package or will it be part of the base channel you get?

I have Sky TV but not the Sky Sports package.

Cheers

Just found this on the Sky forum.

“Bike launches into the Sports genre at 464
Channel Description: The first channel completely dedicated to the bicycle world
This channel will be available free-to-air”

Nothing there yet though.

Ah cheers, forgot to check this morning before I left for work.

Please please please have race coverage. Pleaseeee.

Unlikely though if it’s free.

Good grief they do

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/news/bike-channel-to-launch.aspx

Some real dross on there triathlon, mountain running ??!! Ermmm

But some road events, allusions to red bull stuff all presented by ‘notorious’ ex cyclists. Can’t be lance surely 😆

Chances of seeing dirt rather than tarmac? I suspect low.

Though if Sky could unseat Red Bull 😉

I suspect this is mainly a channel to shove long road races that they don’t want clogging up the rest of the sports channels for half a day and to compete with ITV.

Is this on sky only or is it ‘free to air’ as in Freeview?

I hope Sky dont disrupt what ITV4 have been doing. ITV have been brilliant bringing cycling to UK terrestrial TV over the last few years, Id hate for them to have to pull out because of the Sky machine making it even less viable for them to continue.

It’s been kept quiet! I have sky sports News on a lot and they never mentioned it. Everything else gets advertised every 2 minutes!

Not showing yet!!

Searching Google there’s barely any mention of it, just the link above.

Looks like it’s a UK version of the one launched on Sky Italia a few years back?

http://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/it/Bike-Channel-UK.html
http://www.bikechannel.it/

Yeah just phoned home and screen blank on 464.

What’s wrong with mountain running?

Dont think this is a SKY own brand channel due to the lack of publicity. Probably something like Motors TV, Extreme Sports TV etc which are done independently.

Soooo… it’s free-to-air, 24/7, covers all aspects of cycling, including race coverage of some classic races such as Gent-Wevelgem, Cape Epic, Roc d’Azur and Tour of Romandie, and then as a bonus it includes adventure racing and mountain running?

AND SOME PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING?? Jeez, impossible to please some people. Sounds like my perfect tv channel!

There’s been a few ads on sky sports for ‘bike’ but very limited detail, I thought it was maybe a new series. Delighted it’s a new channel. Nothing listed on the channel guide on the app under 464 though.

cant see it here

http://tv.sky.com/tv-guide

Okay, found it. It’s just not on the Sky guide.

On Sky you can manually add the channel. You need to go into the settings menu and find the manual add channel menu and put in…

Frequency 11.306
Set it to ‘H’ for horizontal
Leave the defaults of 27500 and 2/3 and the rest of the stuff.

Search for channels and then in there the one you want is 52290 as it doesn’t have a name yet.

Add the channel, then save. Then go to ‘other channels’ and you’ll find 52290 in there, select to view.

http://www.lyngsat.com/Astra-2F.html

Standard def and looks heavily compressed 🙁

Not going to be any competition to ITV or Red Bull

Cheers, will give that a go later.

Yep, it’s not the greatest quality but I hope it’ll improve..

What’s wrong with mountain running?

nothing in itself its great but not the most obvious pastime to cover on a cycling channel.

Meh, Italian stuff with subtitles.

Can we get this if we have BT telly? Please mister, eh, can we? Eh, please?

If they sort out the EPG then it’ll be a welcome change from getting home to watch 3 hours of recorded tennis where there was supposed to bike racing (I’m looking at you Eurosport).

I’ve been watching preview of it.
I’ve just watched a program about fat bikes on it

Yeah its on now!

is it available on Virgin?

Really needs HD, it’s hurting my eyes…

There is some mountain biking on later. At 19:35 is Fat Bike followed by 2 episodes of MTB Insight.

I’ll give it a try.

more info here http://www.skymedia.co.uk/news/bike-channel-to-launch.aspx

Advert in Cycling Plus says Virgin as well as Sky

Not a bad programme on now, following the Hannahs through a season of dh. It’s 2013 but still good stuff.

Definitely can’t complain for free anyway 🙂

This is all I could find re Virgin

How to watch

•Sky channel 464.
•Free-to-air satellite, including on Freesat compatible receivers, using the following manual tuning parameters:

Astra 2F (28.2)
Frequency/polarisation: 11307 H
Symbol Rate: 27500 (27.5 Mbaud)
FEC; 2/3
Broadcast standard: DVB-S, QPSK
Service ID: 52290
UK spotbeam

The channel is coming soon to Virgin Media

Seems to be live on 464 now.

Some MTB on too. Hutchinson UR documentary.

Was approached about a job there. Website didn’t even go to a holding page. I was out!!

Anyone know what channel it is on an openbox? (Asking for a friend ) 😆

Hutchison documentary is A Racers Dream, which was also on last week on extreme

I see there is a mtb programme on at 2pm and 2.30 pm. I’ll be setting the planner for that, then.

The UK web site just asks for authorization – http://www.bikechannel.co.uk/

I’ve recorded a couple of programmes on sky+ they have both frozen a couple of times and “Dandyhorse Double” froze at about 25 mins and didn’t start again. Anyone else ahving thhe same problem?

@ gastromonkey.

Yes it happened to me on the fat bike programme. It did record later when I tried again.