Fwd: Important Information About Your GCN+ Subscription

[Chris Ho Photography]

GCN+ is dead. 

Thanks to corporate greed, we can’t have nice things. 

This is going to hurt the sport of cycling. 

On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 3:50 AM GCN Plus <ser...@accounts.globalcyclingnetwork.com> wrote:

Dear GCN+ Subscriber,     We are sending you this email as a valued subscriber of GCN+.  We are very sorry to have to inform you that the GCN+ service and the GCN app will close on 19 December 2023.       What does this mean for you?   Access: Your subscription contract will end and you will be unable to access the GCN+ service and GCN app from 19 December 2023. Following closure, you can still use your GCN account on the GCN website at globalcyclingnetwork.com and the GCN Shop at shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com. Upcoming payments: The GCN+ service will close on 19 December 2023 and you will be charged for any upcoming subscription payments up to that time. If you do not want to be charged for any upcoming payments, you can cancel your subscription prior to your next renewal date, however your access to the service will then end on that renewal date.   Refunds: If you have a subscription to the GCN+ service which is still running on 19 December 2023, we will arrange for a refund of any amounts that you have paid in advance for access to the service after that date. Please make sure you have a valid and up-to-date payment method. Refunds will be paid automatically, but in some instances may take some time to process for technical reasons.   Data: Following closure, your personal data will continue to be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.    We encourage you to contact our customer service team here to answer any additional questions about GCN+ and your subscription.      Thank you for subscribing to GCN+, we are very grateful for your support and for joining us on this journey.       Sincerely,   The GCN Team     Copyright © 2023 Play Sports Network Ltd, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Play Sports Network Ltd 30 Monmouth Street Bath, Avon BA1 2AP United Kingdom This is a service message. You are receiving this email because you are a user of the GCN app and/or a subscriber of GCN+. Your marketing preferences remain unaffected.

[Stephen Hemminger]

It was so much better than all the other streaming services for bike races.

[christ...@gmail.com]

So frustrating! Please don't make me go back to Flo for race coverage!

GCN+ and a VPN was the best for live and on-demand race coverage. My guess is that it is now all going to Euro Sport.

I have to say though, I do not understand why they went into the direction of all the original content. Super costly production with, in my mind, very limited value.

[Justin Watkins]

I read somewhere that content was moving to discovery + and Eurosport. If everything is on discovery, that would actually open it up to a wider audience and not just a niche service.

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On Nov 15, 2023, at 8:19 AM, christ...@gmail.com <christ...@gmail.com> wrote:

So frustrating! Please don't make me go back to Flo for race coverage!

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[Mike S]

I just bought a VPN so I could watch the World Cup races on GCN+ (FloBikes is not worthy of a paid subscription, IMO).  I see that all the European countries have an alternative (discovery+, Eurosport), and only US viewers are left without an option.  I'm wondering if it will be possible to use the VPN to subscribe to one of those services?  Subscribing via VPN should work, but I wonder if a US credit card number will throw a wrench into it.
Details of alternatives by country are listed here 

On Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 7:41:03 AM UTC-8 Chris Ho Photography wrote:

[paul bourcier]

Mike,

It sounds like that is the solution using the App.  My gut says to go with the United Kingdom App to make sure it is in English.    Let us know if you are able to purchase a subscription with a US credit card using your VPN in England.

Best,

Paul

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[Chris Ho Photography]

In theory, the live racing will be going to Discovery+ but currently their sports streaming service is geo restricted and you cannot get it in the USA. I do not know if this can be bypassed by having a VPN connection or not. I have been using VPNs to watch all of GCN’s coverage of all races up until this point, but I am unsure if that will work for D+. If anyone here knows the answer to this question, I’d love to hear it!

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[casey patton]

My understanding is a US credit card will probably muck things up. Escape Collective (great cycling site) has a lot of coverage of this and several people in the comments have said it does. Someone said they went thru the app store to add the Eurosport app and that worked. I have a VPN and have poked a bit at Eurosport and it appears they do paypal, too. I have no idea whether that will work from the states or not but it's another option. I didn't try to subscribe as I'm waiting to see if workarounds or other options come to light.

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