GCN+ is dead

Ya. Same here. 🙈

I took out a sub. Race event coverage is pretty much the same. No documentaries. Not sure if the pre race stuff GCN did for the grand tours will be a feature this year.

If you just want it for the racing, it's all there.

Real shame as I actually enjoyed watching all of the tours without the ads. But that was the only reason to sub, so hard to say if it made financial sense if a lot of subscriptions were only for that reason.

There is an ad-free option for any race I've watched live or on demand on the Discovery Plus app.

How do you get the ad free highlights? I get ad free live coverage but have to sit through ads on highlights

The highlights packages all appear to be as-broadcast on Eurosport, so they all contain ad breaks.

As far as I can see anyway.

Its such a kick in the teeth for the makers of all those documentaries to just have them sitting on a shelf somewhere.

I used to love putting one of them on on the background. The GCN channel on YT recently had a video of Simon doing America's toughest gravel race. It has been viewed 163K times in just 4 days. And its just 16 minutes long.

Think that could easily have been 45-60 minutes of interesting content without massively increasing their costs to produce it which lots of people would still be happy to watch.

Ah! Do that myself sometimes, generally to get the last half hour or so of a race

Subed for 1 month to D+ and boy isn't this a treat without the ads. Will do it again for TdF and Vuelta.

bah, Sky have finally noticed that I was still getting D+ despite having downgraded to the Essentials package, and have cut me off.

I've paid me 6.99 for the Giro, I assume there's no cheaper way of getting D+?

Some tough news tied to this thread.

Cillian Kelly posted on Twitter today that he's finishing up with GCN. He mentioned in his tweet how he was heavily involved with GCN+ amongst other things and ended his post saying he's open for work.

Stating the obvious but that means he was let go and hasn't been able to find anything up to this point.

The former is obviously a direct consequence of the platform being shuttered.

AFAIK Cillian left a non-cycling job which must have been a decision he didn’t take lightly. Hope he gets to work in a field he clearly loves

Is it just me or is there less GCN content recently too? I have YouTube on the living room TV and I'd often turn it on and watch when I got a bit of free time but the last few times there seemed to be nothing worth watching

There might be less and less going forward it seems.

Saw another tweet today from someone saying they are leaving GCN (behind the scenes staff member it looks like), also with nothing lined up. That led to a response from someone saying it has been sold back to the original owners and the website is getting the bullet.

It's still up but signs that its not going to last long. Several posts over a couple days a week ago, nothing since.

Dan Benson has gotten let go as well, so that doesn't auger well ..