35th America's Cup

Practice racing starts in Portsmouth on Friday, July 24.
The competition consists of four fleet races - two each on Saturday and Sunday.

Does anyone know if these will be broadcast on any TV channels? Will it be on the AC YouTube channel? Has there been any announcement of the times for the races?

Time to flashmob your local sports bar with all your sailing rummies and get all 100 TVs tuned to the AC!

the schedule for the Portsmouth racing is on their site.
http://acws-portsmouth.americascup.com/en/whats_going_on.html

the racing starts at 1:30
didn't see any info yet about your other question.

Good luck.

Television
BT Sport is the UK Live Host Broadcaster for the 2015–2017 America’s Cup. During the 2015 Portsmouth event they will show all racing action live on BT Sport and will do the same for all other ACWS events.

BBC is the UK Highlights Host Broadcaster for the 2015–2017 America’s Cup. During the 2015 Portsmouth event they will show a half hour evening highlights show on the Saturday and Sunday evening as well as an event hour long highlights show on the Monday evening after the event

Read more at http://www.yachtingmonthly.com/news... -in-portsmouth-31359#B0qSBwlVF8bo1LM3.99

When I am on the road in Dubai, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, I can watch a sailing show produced by CNN called Mainsail, which recaps what ever the big event of the time is, be it an ocean race or AC.

I can never see that show here in the USA. I have emailed CNN to request they show it here as well, but never got a response.

Given the huge popularity of the last AC, with the excitement of 40 knot flying boats, I would hope ESPN or CNN or somebody here would show it. Last time, the fleet racing was more exciting (more crashes) than many of the 19 final races.

Here's a Mainsail clip on the Peyron brothers racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utuD8p_wAjk

Mainsail used to be on tv here. Might have been on Speed or Outside. Those don't exist on Direct TV anymore. Shortly after AC 33 it was gone.

I'm thinking it will all wind up on Youtube anyway.

On Direct TV there is a ACWS show scheduled for Tue 7/28 at 7pm on NBCSports channel 220. Maybe a highlights show? NBCS has a secondary channel 220a which shows

to be announced

in the guide but that's normal for that channel.

Mainsail can be watched from their web site.

http://edition.cnn.com/sport/sailing

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What’s it like to sail a foiling America’s Cup boat with Ben Ainslie?

strapping a large diver’s knife to my arm and checking the fit of a helmet that has a flip down, Top Gun style sun visor before being asked whether I had ever used an oxygen breather, provided some clues that I had stepped a long way outside of the normal world of performance sailing.

Looks like the Chinese will get to watch the America's Cup but not the Americans.

CCTVSE acquires exclusive rights for China in groundbreaking agreement

Maybe there will be a USA deal soon.

There was an announcement back in February that NBC would have coverage of all America's Cup World Series in 2015 and 2016 on NBCSN but nothing is listed on their website.

Scuttlebutt announcement of NBC coverage from February

They obviously don't care about us 'mericans. They aren't even having the finals here!!!

Mike

Be sure to check for NBC Sports Network - it's different from the NBC scheduling. From http://www.nbcsports.com/nbc-sports-group-acquires-us-rights-35th-americas-cup

Dated Feb. 9, 2015:

It is showing up on my Xfinity line up:
NBCSP Channel 730
7/28- 7:00pm
NBCSP HD Channel 408
7/28- 7:00pm

Lol
It's ruled a TKO for the bowman

I did like the Youtube thing last time... especially since it didn't have commercials for feminine hygiene products and stuff.

Obviously that would be a recap show? It's 2 days after the event?

So, the BT Sport deal is a newer announcement than the NBC one?
i am interested in a full replay of the live broadcast for european racing and live broadcast for bermuda racing.

from the bt sport site;
Can I order the BT Sport app and online player on its own?
No, but it's included for free with BT Sport on the Sky Digital Satellite Platform and with BT Sport on BT TV. The app and online player is also available with our BT Broadband packages for just £5 a month.

www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/bt-sport#sport-picker
How do I start using the BT Sport app and online player?
First, you need to download the app from the Apple App store or Google Play store.
Next, you need to activate the BT Sport app on your BT account. Just log in to bt , click on 'BT Sport' and follow the instructions.
When you use the app, and when you want to watch BT Sport at btsport.com, you'll need to enter your BT ID.

so far we got the app on my wife's iphone but i wasn't able to get to the next step. i am not so good at navigating websites on a little phone screen....or maybe usa people are blocked from signing up with bt?

Keep reading that page! It says that all IPs outside of the UK will be blocked, even if you have paid for the BT Sport package.
Look's like you'd have to have a BT Sports account and log in through a VPN to hide your location. How convenient!
Maybe that's because they want to negotiate a separate contract for each country/continent like they did for China. Our day will come...

you don't have the right friends in IT. I got your back dave ($$$)

Really?

Those commercials are the only reason I watch TV!

I've been watching the Tour De France on NBCSP (Comcast cable) so I'm guessing they will also have the AC? I hope they cover all the lead in racing this summer, not just the finals. Last AC, some of the fleet racing on the 45's was much more exciting (and lots of crashes!) than some of the finals.

+1

Some of it was hard to watch, especially in the very beginning (think way back to the training wheels/poles on the mark boats), but fleet racing almost always has more excitement opportunity than match racing.

Mike

I got it working here in the US, but it comes with some headaches. First, you have to have a UK provider that includes Sky Sport or BT Sport in the package before you can stream with an account. I have family in London so I used their acct and password. Then you need to use the addon extention Stealthy and configure it to

GB

(United Kingdom proxy). It did not work using FF but did work using Chrome. Be patient because it takes several minutes for the proxy to establish.

So it's doable, but you will need access to an account.

Look who showed up for the party

http://www.americascup.com/en/news/... st-rights-for-the-35th-Americas-Cup.html

Well this says NBCS will broadcast all of it, I just wonder if anything has changed because of the changes made to the ACWS.

Just my guess, but remember that annoying anchor for AC34? Todd Harris? Well, the $$golden child$$ for NBC Sports is the Tour de France, which Todd Harris is the anchor, along with Bob Roll and Christian Vande Velde. Unfortunately, the Tour de France is happening right now and at the same time as Portsmouth. To broadcast live, both are happening simultaneously. NBC Sports is just one network. They are not going to bump the Tour to broadcast ACWS Portsmouth. Ain't gonna happen.

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Timbo, do you ever feel

Not so fresh?

I watch for the drug commercial that has everyone in bathtubs. Maybe it treats some disease like leprosy where you have to wash a lot... Or maybe it treats OCD hand-washers? Or maybe the drug just makes you want to take baths.. outdoors?

+1

I think the Portsmouth stop was the best..> Big wind and they didn't know that much about controlling those things at that stage in the trials....