{"id":220839,"date":"2025-06-28T08:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220839\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T08:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:17:14","slug":"plugge-visma-wrest-control-of-radio-broadcast-back-from-aso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220839\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugge, Visma wrest control of radio broadcast back from ASO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/race-radios-tour-de-france-087.jpg\" alt=\"Exclusive: Plugge, Visma wrest control of radio broadcast back from ASO\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">The teams are happy, but will it mean less insight and the complete avoidance of gaffs?<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Marshall-Bell\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CMB-mug-shot-aspect-ratio-99-99-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Television broadcast of team race radios will continue for a third year in this year\u2019s Tour de France, Escape Collective can reveal, but with a notable concession made over the selection of which clips to be aired.<\/p>\n<p>Towards the end of the 2024 Tour, both Visma-Lease a Bike and Ineos Grenadiers <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/visma-lease-a-bike-revoke-team-radio-access-for-tv-broadcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pulled out of the scheme<\/a>, citing frustration with the process, including claiming that important tactical information was made public with potential ramifications for the race\u2019s outcome. UAE Team Emirates had voiced similar concerns in 2023, the first year of the project in the men&#8217;s race (the <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/live-broadcast-of-team-radios-has-potential-to-add-juice-to-tour-de-france-coverage\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">project piloted<\/a> at the 2022 Tour de France Femmes) in which Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s radio quip of \u201cI\u2019m gone, I\u2019m dead\u201d became one of the defining moments of the race.<\/p>\n<p>Teams, represented by Velon \u2013 the organisation owned by 10 WorldTour teams \u2013 have been discussing with ASO, the organisers of the Tour de France, for several months to come to a new agreement, with the initial two-year contract lapsing last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For Visma to take part in the project in the 2025 race, they wanted a different vetting procedure to be put in place, with the final decision over what audio is selected for a worldwide TV audience decided by representatives of the teams as opposed to ASO, as was the case previously.<\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"6859939a9340f8b0e5ab683c\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/radios\/\" title=\"Radios\" class=\"tag tag-685994479340f8b0e5ab6866 radios\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radios<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/tour-de-france\/\" title=\"Tour de France\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f295a6 tour-de-france\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing The teams are happy, but will it mean less insight and the complete avoidance of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114760007399666060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}