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? Plenty of people on here support gcn and the free streaming alternatives are quite bad. This is classic corporate saturn devouring his sons and it is gross to see the dedicated cycling coverage — probably the best and most easily available ever— get canned due to planned consolidation. Why buy gcn if the plan was to dissolve it in three years?
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probably the best and most easily available ever
Wasn't it just Eurosport Player with a new logo though really? I mean once you throw out the other videos. I appreciate in some markets Eurosport didn't carry all the races, but they did here :)
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Because the plan wasn't to dissolve it? I've no idea why Discovery bought GCN+, but I doubt they bought it with the intention of shutting it down within three years.
I'd imagine that they realised that it was costing more than it was bringing in , especially as they produced a lot of content that barely anyone watched from what I've heard, and decided to streamline the racing coverage, which is, hopefully, generating revenue, into an existing brand, rather than running two with the associated overheads.
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Why buy gcn if the plan was to dissolve it in three years?
Not the same companies making the two decisions.
Discovery bought GCN in 2019.
But in 2022 what was Discovery became part of a new company, eventually called Warner Bros. Discovery, along with what was previously AT&T's Time Warner.
They have/are also closing some of their other brands like HBO, I think. [Edit - perhaps not - 'HBO' brands are complex]
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chez_jay
The responses on here highlight very clearly that people like watching cycling via streaming services, they just don't want to pay for it.