Leodisflyer wrote:It's a pain. BBC don't carry the cycling, but they have football. I don't mind football - live, in a box, with a beer, but can't stand the sound of commentary.
The BBC is normally the place to go during ad breaks, but we can't do that at the moment.
Cycling is usually on on ITV 4 Freeview 24; Tour de france will be on this, but some highlights of the Tour of Italy were recently shown on Quest Freeview 37.
BBC will only show Tour of London & Surrey; they spend all their sports budget by sending too many presenters to the World Cup and other overseas events.
Otherwise BBC Red Button can be accessed any time on Freeview 601; we used it for the Wintery Lympics and I dare say they'll transmit some Wimbledon matches on it; when not in use for sports they usually transmit some rubbish pop festival or similar.