Eurosport did not cover the last Winter Olympics though.
Eurosport didn't have the rights then. They do now.
I am not happy at all with Eurosport now because, if you subscribe to Eurosport Player, you can only get it in the local language. It used to be both English and local language. I live in Austria and do not want commentary in German. I complained and they have failed to come up with an acceptable explanation, so I will no longer be subscribing.
I do have ES 1 and 2 on my cable channels and last time I looked, I could get it in English, so fingers crossed they will get their act together.
Oh, I agree wholeheartedly there. I used to watch ESP Deutschland a lot, as the figure skating and ski jumping quite frequently get dropped from the British ESP schedules. It was fine when ESP1 Deutschland was in analogue on Astra 19.2E, because it had an English soundtrack as well as the German one. But, when it closed, the digital version only had the German soundtrack.
So, I got ESP Player. The problem is that the additional streams didn't have commentary, and I like the English-language commentators and hearing what they have to say. Then I found that the German and Dutch versions of the player both had English soundtracks available on their streams of ESP1 and ESP2. It was great! But, the English soundtracks were dropped last year.
Like you, I was tempted to cancel my ESP Player subscription in protest. But, being able to watch with foreign or no commentary is better than not being able to watch at all. So, I stuck with it.
If you ask me, Eurosport should go back to having the same programming schedule all over Europe, and have all soundtracks available, so that you can choose which language you want to listen in.
Although Eurosport scrapped this model years ago, Euronews continued with it. And there was uproar when they scrapped it a couple of months ago. Largely from people in your situation – people who have moved to a different country which doesn't speak their language.
When we were in Cyprus at the start of the month, my Dad was raging that Euronews wasn't available in English there any more. Like, it's not just the ex-pats that speak English – everybody in Cyprus does! (Former British colony, remember).
The complicating factor is that Eurosport now has rights for sports in certain countries. So, unless they launch separate "National" channels to show these on, I can't see a return to having a pan-European schedule.
Which is a real shame.
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