Emergency episode: The demise of GCN+ and the GCN app
Spin Cycle
Escape Collective
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
News dropped on Wednesday that GCN+ and the GCN app will be shuttered in December. We have thoughts. We have emotions. Caley Fretz, Joe Lindsey, and Cosmo Catalano got together to talk through it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to an emergency escape collective podcast everybody. I'm Kayle Frets. |
| 0:13.4 | We do have an emergency today. |
| 0:14.9 | We have some of the saddest news, I think, |
| 0:17.5 | as a cycling fan that I have seen in some time. |
| 0:21.3 | Woke up to this, have since done a bunch of digging, but well the long and short of it is |
| 0:25.9 | GCN plus is going to be no more. That would include the app and the live racing coverage as you currently know it. |
| 0:37.0 | That doesn't mean it disappears completely. |
| 0:39.0 | It also doesn't mean, for example, the G.C.N website goes away or the G. C. on YouTube channel goes away, |
| 0:44.3 | but that is nonetheless a significant change in the way that I think a lot of our |
| 0:48.4 | listeners, certainly myself,ume cycling television. |
| 0:53.0 | To join me on this special episode, |
| 0:55.0 | we've got Cosmo, |
| 0:56.0 | Kondalana. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome, Cosmo. |
| 0:58.0 | Hello, I'm here, happy to help pour one out. |
| 1:00.0 | We're out here in the Part of G. |
| 1:02.0 | We brought you in because you you have |
| 1:04.3 | you have some experience with uh with broadcast rights and some other things |
| 1:07.8 | mostly because you have to tell them to bugger off on a regular basis on on social media |
| 1:12.3 | nowadays so the relationship is pretty good to bugger off on a regular basis on social media. |
| 1:12.6 | I mean, nowadays, their relationship's pretty good. |
| 1:15.4 | Tell me an astronomical number. |
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