GCN+ is dead

That is unfortunate. It was very handy for watching races. I haven't watched many of their documentaries lately but I usually save them for watching on the turbo during winter. Guess I'll have to power through any I still want to watch over the next month.

Crap! One of the very, very few subscriptions I actually pay for. The amount of live coverage of races on GCN+ is incredible... I had the Eurosport subscription previously but found a) their app was much less reliable and b) less coverage and shorter coverage.

Was coming to post this. I'll miss the app, some great content even outside of the racing coverage

Discovery+ is €49.99 a year, so just a tenner more expensive than GCN+

I did like the documentaries though. Excellent one just released about Chiappucci winning stage 13 in 1992 TdF

I'm paying €39.99 a year for just Eurosport.

Don't think you can get a Eurosport subscription on its own anymore though if you are a new user

Well this is a major league pain in the hole, Cross season and all 😯

What do I do now?

Disaster gcn was so handy for watching races back on demand! This could result in me just seeing much less next year

That's it exactly for me too. Plus, I'm nearly sure the GCN+ app showed more cycling events than the old Eurosport Player app?

This. Sticky Bottle has GCN quoted as saying the decision was made by parent company Warners who also own Discovery so that they can milk their streaming rights to maximum (my phrasing)

I was all set to pull the trigger on a subscription in the next week or two for the CX and spring classics

A great App, providing what the subscribers wanted at a reasonable price. No wonder it wasn't allowed to continue!

I'm not living in Ireland and the GCN App has effectively been my TV for the last year as I decided not to bother with Netflix anymore.

Really going to miss it, the documentaries were always a treat and the racing coverage was exceptional.

They brought womens racing to an audience that had barely seen it before.

Hope they make the documentaries available on Youtube channel at some point. They were too good to just discard.

I didn't watch many of the travel ones, but any of the documentaries I watched weren't exactly lavish. I wouldn't have thought many of the "legends" ones were more than a handful people travelling. Excellent content, but mainly interviews. Same with Conor Dunnes recent Unbound one - a lot of it was him filming himself.

Oh Jesus😬

Such a shame as GCN+ great quality and fair price service, I was so looking forward to watching the Xmas Cyclocross events , even if WvA and MVP are not racing for many their ongoing battles was why I signed up for GCN+. I have Eurosport via VirginMedia but it being Eurosport UK means you can end up getring live a fecking Snooker or Tennis event instead of some races - the on demand replay was also a great feature of GCN+

Well, bollix! ☹️

GCN+ is/was one of a very few subscription services we use here, and it's by far the best value. I've often said that I'd happily have paid considerably more for the service.

We watch A LOT of cycle racing in this house, but the great majority of it is on-demand, with only an occasional big stage of a GT or a monument watched 'live'.

Does anyone know what Discovery+'s on-demand offering is like?

Do they cover all the women's racing and the cyclocross that GCN+ currently does?

Without a good on-demand offering, our cycling viewing here will be very badly restricted.

Dan Lloyd tweeted something to the effect that all racing will be available via Discovery/ES.

He also said that they don't know what is going to happen with the Documentaries yet.

I used to use the Acast App for accessing podcasts, and that shut down out of nowhere last year, I've used GCN+ since it started and now its gone :(

I just signed up for Discovery+

Lots of cycling content there. Any race I've searched for, I've found it.

Highlights seem to be there too.

Yes - works perfectly on the laptop.

It does have ads though but you can skip them quite easily

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I'm raging, cos that's usually my strong point.

I'm not bothered by coverage of the big races and Grand Tours... they'll always be picked up somewhere. But to have everything under one roof, and particularly, having coverage of all the CX races, was massive and I'm a bit worried CX will suffer. I was only listening to an old interview with Sven Nys yesterday where he was extolling the benefits CX has gotten from GCN+ covering all its races and doing in depth features. Clearly he thought that was a crucial element of growing the sport, both in viewing figures and also attracting new sponsors. I hope the gap is plugged somehow.

The GCN race content and ES are the same. ES has full start to finish with no adds for most races as well as the "TV" version with adds and pre/post race Orla.

The ES app can do all the usual laptop/phone/PC, can Chromecast, can watch the full race as soon as it ends or go back to the start of the live feed.

It's not the world's greatest app for buffering but it's not the worst either.

Comes in handy every 2 years for the Olympics too.

Is anyone seeing a way of paying for Disco+ yearly? I'm only getting the yearly option for the basic package that doesn't include cycling. For the cycling package it seems to only have the option for 7 euro a month for me.

All 12 seasons of Finding Bigfoot are available, that's won me over 😆

I saw Conor Dunne tweeting recently about his upcoming slow cycling episode (one of my faves) in Peru, going by a comment I saw from Cillian Kelly any unfinished documentaries will be going in the bin. 😭

Previous GCN subscriber here. Got Discovery + through Sky for the last few years. I only watched the live stuff so no need for me pay for GCN

Discovery App is fine. Showed every road race that GCN did. Can watch live or “from start”. Had the option of the TV feed or straight feed. No ads of course

Lots of track, cross country, downhill etc

Some other “minor” sports too, but just be careful with how you see advertisements for it because in the UK, Discovery + will now include all the old BT sports stuff, while here were effectively the same as Eurosport