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Friday, April 11, 2008
On tomorrow: Final stage of
Tour of the Basque Country
LIVE (see below for start times)
On today: Tour of the Basque Country
LIVE (To April 12) --
Sunday: Paris-Roubaix
LIVE
Tom Boonen and Quick Step on reconnaissance today ahead of Sunday's Paris-Roubaix
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Patrick Calcagni (Barloworld) wins yesterday's 2008 GP Pino Cerami in Belgium
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Notes:
- Tour of the Basque Country concludes Saturday with a 20km individual
time trial. First rider departs at 14:40 CET (8:40am U.S. Eastern).
Live video streaming on ETB SAT should begin at 16:15 CET (10:15am
U.S. Eastern) and on
cycling.tv
at 16:45 CET (10:45am U.S. Eastern).
- ETB SAT and
cycling.tv
are both now streaming today's stage of the Tour of the Basque Country.
- 2008 Paris-Roubaix live video coverage: We'll have a preview
later today of what to expect for Sunday's race.
Sarthe final stage: Can Voeckler
hold off Vandevelde and Slipstream?
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe: Rue Gazonfier climb
in Le Mans: 18% grade but only 300 meters long. The riders will
have to face this "wall" four times today right before the finish.
Note the stairs to help pedestrians get up the sidewalk.
(photo © 2005 www.cyclingfans.com)
- At Sarthe yesterday, Thomas Voeckler of Bouygues Telecom
picked up 3 bonus seconds and now leads Christian Vande Velde
(Slipstream-Chipotle) by 4 seconds. This is the same margin that
last year's winner, Andreas Kloden, had over Frenchman Nicolas Vogondy
heading into the final stage which again features four trips up the short
but very steep (18%!) Gazonfier climb in Le Mans . Today's
final stage should be very exciting for spectators because Sarthe is very
important to Voeckler and Bouygues Telecom (the race started in the Vendee
region, long the location for Bouygues Telecom manager Jean-Rene
Bernaudeau's rider development efforts that feed the pro team) and Slipstream,
which got a first taste of victory in Europe with Vande Velde's time trial
win here on Wednesday, is keen to win as much as it can before its first
Tour de France start in July. Attacks should be furious on this stage
even before Gazonfier. Can Bouygues and Voeckler hang on? Can
Slipstream grab overall victory? Will someone else steal the show?
(10 or so riders are within 23 seconds of the lead, including two Cofidis
riders and two Credit Agricole riders.) Le Mans is the site of the
24 Hours of Le Mans auto race depicted in the 1971 action film, "Le Mans,"
starring Steve McQueen.
- Videos of Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire can
be viewed
here
. -Bernie
Also on today:
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de
la Loire
France, April 8-11
Official Website
here
Start List
(Pereiro, Moreau, Gusev, Casper, Voeckler, Pineau,
McCarty, Vandevelde, Dean, Grillo, Brard, Nazon, Gadret, Calzati, Roche,
Vaugrenard ,...)
Live ticker (French)
Google-translated live ticker (English)
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Today's Tour of the Basque Country Stage 5 Profile
- Today's Tour of the Basque Country live webcast on ETB SAT
starts at 15:50 CET (9:50am U.S. Eastern).
cycling.tv
schedule says their live coverage will begin at 16:00 CET (10am
U.S. Eastern).
- Be sure to reload this
page occasionally during
the race for the
latest live race coverage
links and information.
The most recent
notices always appear at
the top of this Live Guide.
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Welcome to today's
live coverage guide
for Stage 5 of the
2008 Tour of the Basque Country.
( Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco).
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Live video streaming:
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Google-translated)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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2008 www.cyclingfans.com
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
2008 Gent-Wevelgem winner Oscar Freire sprays champagne on the podium
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Notes:
- Tomorrow's Tour of the Basque Country live webcast on ETB SAT
starts at 15:50 CET (9:50am U.S. Eastern).
cycling.tv
schedule says their live coverage will begin at 16:00 CET (10am
U.S. Eastern).
- If you are having trouble playing the ETB SAT stream today, you
can try a direct link
here
.
-
cycling.tv
live video streaming of Tour of the Basque Country
is also now playing.
- ETB SAT is now streaming today's stage of the Tour of the Basque
Country live. Not sure if they changed something on their site but
we had to enable pop-ups for their site in order to get the stream today.
- Today's stage 4 of Tour of the Basque Country starts at 16:00
CET (10am U.S. Eastern) live on
cycling.tv
and at 15:50 CET (9:50am U.S. Eastern) live on ETB SAT.
Also on today:
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de
la Loire
France, April 8-11
Official Website
here
Start List
(Pereiro, Moreau, Gusev, Casper, Voeckler, Pineau,
McCarty, Vandevelde, Dean, Grillo, Brard, Nazon, Gadret, Calzati, Roche,
Vaugrenard ,...)
Live ticker (French)
Google-translated live ticker (English)
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- Be sure to reload this
page occasionally during
the race for the
latest live race coverage
links and information.
The most recent
notices always appear at
the top of this Live Guide.
-
Welcome to today's
live coverage guide
for Stage 4 of the
2008 Tour of the Basque Country.
( Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco).
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Live video streaming:
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Google-translated)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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Copyright ©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com
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Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Sarthe videos: American Christian Vandevelde of
Slipstream-Chipotle wins today's time trial. Click
here
.
On tomorrow: Tour of the Basque
Country LIVE (To April
12) -- Sunday: Paris-Roubaix
LIVE
The peloton on a section of cobblestones today at the 2008 Gent-Wevelgem
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Notes:
- Tomorrow's stage 4 of Tour of the Basque Country starts at 16:00
CET (10am U.S. Eastern) live on
cycling.tv
and at 15:50 CET (9:50am U.S. Eastern) live on ETB SAT.
- Tour of the Basque Country picnic is now streaming live
on ETB SAT.
- Basque Country: According to the Google-translated ticker,
the peloton is having a picnic. Also, Frenchman Stephane Goubert
fell from his bike and "said goodbye" to the race....or picnic.
- Also coming Sunday of course: Paris-Roubaix LIVE.
- Coming Sunday: ETB SAT are streaming Klasika
Primavera (Spain) from 12:00 - 14:00 CET. -Bernie
- Tour of the Basque Country: Live video streaming on
ETB SAT starts at 15:55 CET (9:55am U.S. Eastern).
Cycling.tv are showing it later, starting at 17:30 CET (11:30am U.S.
Eastern).
- Eurosport Russia and Eurosport Sweden also have
Gent-Wevelgem live broadcasts, now listed at right. -Bernie
- Meanwhile, at Tour of the Basque Country, "The peloton passes
through a constant rise and fall very conducive for large leak." Thankfully,
the live video of this race hasn't yet started...
- The afternoon stage today at the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe,
an individual time trial, gets under way in about 30 minutes.
- We've now listed the Eurosport France live video stream for
Gent-Wevelgem.
- Eurosport live audio streaming is playing in English, Deutsch,
Espanol and Francais, the latter with the superb color commentary of former
racer Jacky Durand.
- Gent-Wevelgem is now streaming live on both
cycling.tv
and Eurosport UK. More links to come.
- We've just listed options for watching Gent-Wevelgem live online
. We expect to have more feeds shortly but we do not know what
geo-restrictions might apply. As always, if the best video stream
is in a language you do not understand, then you can mute the sound in
your media player and play the Eurosport live audio stream for your language
separately.
- Eurosport's live coverage of Gent-Wevelgem is scheduled to
begin at around 14:30 CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).
- Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) won this morning's stage of the
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe into Angers. This
afternoon's time trial begins at 15:30 CET (9:30am U.S. Eastern). Angers
is where American racer Saul Raisin was in the hospital after his
crash in this race two years ago. As told in Saul's book, "Tour
de Life," Saul's parents spent much time walking the streets of this
city while they waited to see if and when Saul would recover.
We had planned to cover the race on location in Angers and Le Mans
this week. However, Sarthe organizers failed to respond to our
multiple requests for information, so we've stayed in Paris and cannot give
them the exposure we had wanted to.
- It doesn't look like
cycling.tv
will be showing today's stage of Tour of the Basque Country live since
they are showing Gent-Wevelgem live. ETB SAT will be streaming
Tour of the Basque Country live, however.
-
Cycling.tv
is scheduled to start showing Gent-Wevelgem LIVE today at
14:20 CET (8:20am U.S. Eastern). Eurosport will also be streaming
the race live in some markets; we will list the available Eurosport
Gent-Wevelgem live video streams.
- Gent-Wevelgem live via satellite info
here
.
- Today's Stage 3 of Tour of the Basque Country started in Erandio
at 12:00 CET (6:00am U.S. Eastern). The race is expected in Viana
for the finish between 16:53 and 17:22 CET (10:53 and 11:22am U.S. Eastern).
- Videos of Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire can
be viewed
here
. -Bernie
Also on today:
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de
la Loire
France, April 8-11
Official Website
here
Start List
(Pereiro, Moreau, Gusev, Casper, Voeckler, Pineau,
McCarty, Vandevelde, Dean, Grillo, Brard, Nazon, Gadret, Calzati, Roche,
Vaugrenard ,...)
Live ticker (French)
Google-translated live ticker (English)
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- Be sure to reload this
page occasionally during
the race for the
latest live race coverage
links and information.
The most recent
notices always appear at
the top of this Live Guide.
-
Welcome to today's
live coverage guide
for the 2008 Gent-Wevelgem and Stage 3 of the
2008 Tour of
the Basque Country. ( Vuelta Ciclista al País
Vasco).
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Live video streaming:
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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Copyright
© 2008 www.cyclingfans.com
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Live video streaming:
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Google-translated)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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Tuesday, April 8, 2008
News flash:
Trek severs ties with LeMond
(USA Today) --
Trek sues to end relationship with LeMond
(IHT)
On tomorrow: Gent-Wevelgem
LIVE video streaming
-- Official Site
--
Start List
(Provisional, .pdf)
Notes:
Tomorrow's Tour of the Basque Country
Stage 3 Profile
- Tomorrow's Stage 3 of Tour of the Basque Country starts in
Erandio at 12:00 CET (6:00am U.S. Eastern). The race is expected in
Viana for the finish between 16:53 and 17:22 CET (10:53 and 11:22am U.S.
Eastern).
-
Cycling.tv
is scheduled to start showing Gent-Wevelgem LIVE tomorrow at
14:20 CET (8:20am U.S. Eastern). Eurosport will also be streaming
the race live in some markets; we will list the available Eurosport
Gent-Wevelgem live video streams.
- Gent-Wevelgem live via satellite info
here
.
- Videos of Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire can be
viewed
here
. -Bernie
-
cycling.tv
is now showing Tour of the Basque Country live as well.
- Right on schedule, ETB SAT is now streaming today's stage
of Tour of the Basque Country live.
- Good to see the "escapees are maintaining their income" at Tour
of the Basque Country... Looks like the race is well ahead of
schedule.
- Next update here after 14:00 CET (8am U.S. Eastern).
- The Circuit Sarthe website and ticker seem to have disappeared.
Hopefully they'll be back online soon.
- Today's stage of Tour of the Basque Country departs Legazpi
at 13:10 CET (7:10am U.S. Eastern). The race is due at the finish
in Erandio between 16:53 and 17:16 CET (10:53 and 11:16am U.S. Eastern).
See below for expected
cycling.tv
and ETB SAT broadcast start times.
- Thomas Voeckler is currently in his annual breakaway at Sarthe.
Andreas Kloden is not back to defend his 2007 victory at this race.
Also on today:
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de
la Loire
France, April 8-11
Official Website
here
Start List
(Pereiro, Moreau, Gusev, Casper, Voeckler, Pineau,
McCarty, Vandevelde, Dean, Grillo, Brard, Nazon, Gadret, Calzati, Roche,
Vaugrenard ,...)
Live ticker (French)
Google-translated live ticker (English)
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- MJ Ray has posted info. regarding satellite coverage of Tour
of the Basque Country in our cycling via satellite blog
here
.
- Today's Basque Country Stage 2:
cycling.tv
schedule says live coverage will begin at 15:00 CET (9am U.S.
Eastern), though that is what it said yesterday and it didn't start
until 16:00 CET, so we'll see. ETB SAT live streaming is
scheduled to begin at 15:50 CET (9:50am U.S. Eastern).
- Be sure to reload this
page occasionally during
the race for the
latest live race coverage
links and information.
The most recent
notices always appear at
the top of this Live Guide.
-
Welcome to today's
live coverage guide
for Stage 2 of the
2008 Tour of the Basque Country.
( Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco).
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Live video streaming:
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Google-translated)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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Copyright ©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com
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Monday, April 7, 2008
On today: Tour of the Basque
Country LIVE (to
April 12)
Starting tomorrow: Circuit
Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire
LIVE (to April 11)
Champion of Belgium Stijn Devolder (Quick Step) wins the 2008 Tour
of Flanders
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Notes:
- MJ Ray has posted info. regarding satellite coverage of Tour
of the Basque Country in our cycling via satellite blog
here
.
- Tomorrow's Basque Country Stage 2:
cycling.tv
schedule says live coverage will begin at 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern),
though that is what it said yesterday and it didn't start until 16:00
CET, so we'll see. ETB SAT live streaming is scheduled to
begin at 15:50 CET (9:50am U.S. Eastern).
-
cycling.tv
live streaming of Tour of the Basque Country has also begun.
- ETB SAT is streaming the race. Fantastic race coverage considering
the weather conditions. Crowds have turned out with their umbrellas.
- ETB Sat go live (with the race) at 15:50 cet apparently now, don't
know why we are missing 20 mins from the ETB1 channel that they take the
signals from. -Bernie
- We should be in for another fun Google-translated ticker this
week. Today we've already learned that "The income of runaways
increases." Also, three riders (including Egoi Martinez) "have
managed to increase the rent on the peloton." No wonder their income
is increasing.
-
Cycling.tv
is showing the Tour of the Basque Country live this week.
Looks like the start time is now 16:00 CET (10am U.S. Eastern)
for today's Stage 1.
- The ETB SAT live video stream should go live sometime from
15:30 CET (9:30am U.S. Eastern).
- Be sure to reload this
page occasionally during
the race for the
latest live race coverage
links and information.
The most recent
notices always appear at
the top of this Live Guide.
-
Welcome to today's
live coverage guide
for the
2008 Tour of the Basque Country. ( Vuelta Ciclista
al País Vasco).
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Live video streaming:
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Google-translated)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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Copyright ©
2008 www.cyclingfans.com
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
Last day today:
Redlands Bicycle Classic
LIVE
Schedule of Events
Starting tomorrow: Tour
of the Basque Country LIVE
Official Website
--
Start List
Tour of the Basque Country live coverage
should start tomorrow at around 15:00 CET (9am U.S. Eastern)
David Kopp (Cycle Collstrop), Peter Wrolich (Gerolsteiner), Kevin
de Weert (Cofidis) and
Magnus Backstedt (Slipstream Chipotle) on the Muur van Geraardsbergen
during today's Tour of Flanders.
photo Copyright
© 2008
Fotoreporter Sirotti
Starting tomorrow: Vuelta
Ciclista al País Vasco
LIVE
Starting Tuesday: Circuit
Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire
LIVE
Wednesday: Gent-Wevelgem
LIVE --
Next Sunday: Paris-Roubaix
LIVE
Notes:
- We'll be closing our poll (see below) in a few minutes, so if
you want to vote, do it now!
- Make that 11 live video streams, now that we've got Eurosport
Spain, Eurosport Italy and Eurosport Germany
listed. -Bernie
- We've set a new record (8) for number of live video streams for
a single race. Hope you all out there have a good stream to watch.
- Eurosport Sweden and Eurosport Russia are also now
streaming the Tour of Flanders. -Bernie
- Eurosport UK live video streaming with Sean Kelly
commentating is now playing.
- Eurosport Nordic is now streaming live video of the race.
- Eurosport UK, France, Germany and Spain audio feeds are all now
playing the race.
- Some Eurosport live audio feeds (including the English-language
stream) are now playing the Tour of Flanders. As always,
if you play a video feed without audio or in a language you don't understand,
you can play the live audio stream in your preferred language separately.
(Mute the sound for the video in your media player and select an
audio stream.)
- The Eurosport France live video stream is now playing the
Tour of Flanders, as is the Tiny Eurosport live video
stream.
- The
cycling.tv
live video streaming of today's Tour of Flanders
has begun. (Available in Premium, Silver and Gold packages.)
- French Eurosport live ticker reports that Rabobank's Joost
Posthuma has abandoned already. There have been a number of crashes,
including one involving defending champion Alessandro Ballan.
As far as we know, Ballan is still in the mix but Enrico Franzoi
of Liquigas fractured his leg according to the Eurosport France live
ticker. cyclingnews live ticker has begun. We
expect to have a couple of Eurosport live video streams when Eurosport
broadcasts begin.
- The
cycling.tv
Tour of Flanders live streaming should get underway at
around 12:50 CET (6:50am U.S. Eastern). Eurosport's live coverage
will begin from 13:00 (7am U.S. Eastern) depending on market.
- If you have satellite coverage, MJ Ray has
information in our cycling on satellite blog
here
.
- Be sure to
reload this page occasionally
during the
race for the latest
live race coverage links
and information. The
most recent notices always
appear at the top of this Live
Guide.
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Welcome to today's
live coverage guide
for the
2008 Ronde Van Vlaanderen. (Tour of Flanders or
Tour des Flandres to the French).
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Live video streaming:
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(Eurosport UK)
(Eurosport Nordic)
(Eurosport Sweden)
(Eurosport France)
(Eurosport Germany)
(Eurosport Spain)
(Eurosport Italy)
(Eurosport Russia)
Tiny Eurosport live video
(no audio)
Sporza
(Belgium only)
(More links to come)
Live audio streaming:
Live tickers:
(Eurosport English ticker)
News and photos:
(cycling news)
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2008 www.cyclingfans.com
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Saturday, April 5, 2008 -
Coming tomorrow: Tour of Flanders
LIVE video streaming
- Tour of Flanders broadcast start times: (race departs
from Brugge at 09:45 CET (3:45am U.S. Eastern))
cycling.tv
(12:50 CET (6:50am U.S. Eastern))
Eurosport (from 13:00 CET (7am U.S. Eastern))
(Eurosport coverage will start at different times in different
markets)
Info. on Tour of Flanders via satellite in our satellite
coverage blog
here
Tour of Flanders Official Website
here
- We will update start times as necessary
in the morning as well as post all the links to Tour of Flanders live video
streams, live audio feeds, and live tickers.
- Final
Tour of Flanders Start List
Tell a friend
about cyclingfans.com? We'd really appreciate it. In
addition to tomorrow's Tour of Flanders, in the days ahead
we'll be listing live race coverage for Vuelta Ciclista al
País Vasco ( Tour of the Basque Country
, starts Monday), Circuit Cycliste Sarthe (starts Tuesday),
Gent-Wevelgem (Wednesday), Paris-Roubaix
(next Sunday).
Coming later today: Tour
of Flanders live coverage start times and more...
- Should start at around 15:50 CET (9:50am
U.S. Eastern) Grand Prix Miguel Indurain
Start List
Also on today:
Redlands Bicycle Classic
LIVE
(to April 6)
Schedule of Events
2008 Tour of Flanders official poster
Ronde Van Vlaanderen Official Website
here
Start List
(Provisional, .pdf)
38th Settimana Ciclista Lombarda
You'll find some videos for Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda
here
.
The official site (Google-translated) for this race (April
1-6) is
here
.
Thanks, Dave!
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Cycling.tv will be streaming tomorrow's much-anticipated
Tour of Flanders (Ronde Van Vlaanderen)
LIVE worldwide on the internet. Subscribers
will also have the possibility of watching the Tour of Flanders Highlights
coverage after the race at their leisure. If you are not already
a subscriber to one of the cycling.tv packages (including a full year's
access to live races and highlights) and would like to subscribe, it is
recommended that you do so before race day. PayPal is accepted.
For more information or to sign up, click
here
.
We expect there to be alternatives for watching the Tour
of Flanders live online, including Sporza (Belgium) and
Eurosport (geo-restrictions unknown at this time).
For those with Eurosport coverage via cable or satellite,
Eurosport of course will be showing the Tour of Flanders live in its
various markets.
France Télévisions, which originally did
NOT plan to broadcast the Tour des Flandres, has just added
the race to its Sunday afternoon programming as word has spread that
Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel is on the form of his life. Coverage
will be "en direct" (LIVE) on France 4 starting at 15:05 CET with Thierry
Adam and two-time TDF winner Bernard Thévenet commentating.
For Tour of Flanders satellite live coverage info.,
check out our cycling on satellite coverage blog by MJ Ray
here
.
cyclingfans.com correspondents continue to round up options
for following the Ronde live online or via satellite and we will of
course have all the live video streams, live audio feeds and live tickers
and graphics Sunday morning.
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