I thought this should have a dedicated thread. I found a new one that may be a long shot but could work in a pinch. Racing is scheduled to start at 10:00am in Spain Tue Feb 8th. That works out to 4am Eastern Standard. 1AM for you west coasties.

The second race will be Thursday Feb. 10 at the same time. The third, if required will be on Sat Feb. 12.

It's a best of three - first team to win 2 takes the cup (until we drown in more court cases later).
The official event website setup by the city of Valencia Spain. It will have links to live coverage though I suspect that they may not anticipate the internet bandwidth they are about to be hit with...but it may be a good spot to find text news and possibly up to the minute video:
http://33rd.americascup.com

www.americascup.com
As a subset of that Valencia website, they claim they will be feeding live video at www.americascup.com. PLEASE NOTE that you will probably have to register to see the feed. That could mean that once they start red lining their bandwidth, they'll shut down registration. I was able to register a couple of days ago but I don't see the link to register anywhere on there now. Check early, check often. This could be one of the best sources.

www.Espn360.com
I just discovered that Jobson and Randy Smyth will be covering the event for ESPN360 (thanks Karl!) so this will probably be worth checking out. I would imagine that ESPN360 would be better prepared for a lot network demand. PLEASE NOTE: you will also need to register and setup an account with ESPN360. It is FREE but takes some time...do it early. Their player is intensive on bandwidth and CPU so if you have an older PC and/or limited internet bandwidth, you may have some difficulty with it. The player requires a few plugins and you will probably have browser compatibility problems if you are not running a 'mainstream' browser. Be sure your security is set to something less than "nuclear power station" and use (gasp) Internet Explorer 8 for the best chance of running it. Watch your upper notification bar at the top of the IE8 window - it will need to install several software plug ins to work and the notifications will pop up there in a faint yellow bar asking permission. It works pretty well for me (I've got a new computer running Windows 7 64bit and a speedy internet connection).

www.SailingAnarchy.com
SailingAnarchy just got sponsored by Layline for the coverage and is working with one of the Italian teams from the last America's Cup to get their reporters out on the water. They also have some deal setup with an internet company that provides internet access for boaters (cruisers). Supposedly they are expecting to be able to upload a lot of stuff quickly. Sometimes hard to watch, sometimes juvenile, but sometimes ground breaking and without fear...the SA coverage will be interesting. I don't believe you will have to pre-register or anything for this one. THIS JUST IN. Our very own JC (FON) will be helping SA with their coverage... definitely worth watching now!

http://www.tsr.ch/
You're going to have to polish up your Francais on this one - but if you can manage to navigate your way through, this Swiss TV station is supposed to have some live coverage of the event.

For the most of Europe coverage will be supplied by Eurosport (Normal and HD).

For the US or Aus or anywhere that doesn't have Eurosport there is also the option to
watch it live over the Internet for €4.90, not a bad price for the coverage that you get.
http://videos.eurosport.com/eurosport-player/teaser.shtml
They also have video-on-demand in-case you missed anything.

Eurosport is on cable in AUS and they already have coverage listed in their program for Monday.

The system that I think the americascup.com website will use is Rayv.
Judging by their website it is a very professional system with loads of bandwidth.

Any talk of taping or recording for later replay. 4 am and work will not allow me to see the race till after work.
It looks like bmworacleracing.com is going to have a live feed.

Great Tip! I didn't know they were planning coverage as well!

ESPN360 will probably have videos you can play from the event as you wish. You can probably expect similar video summaries from www.americascup.com too.

I just can't wait for this to happen it is like Christmas when you are a little kid. Several years ago if someone told me the AC was going to be on multi hulls I would have just said is it April fools. I just can't believe the AC is not going to be on US tv at least I got all the internet sites registered and working and the computer hooked up to the 52" plasma. I am going to try out the BMW site on Friday at 1:30 pm est when they are going to have there first show. What a great time for multi hulls. GO US17!!

Please note the date and the last sentence. I missed completely on the Dean Barker thing..but for being three years in advance, I didn't miss by much.

http://www.teamseacats.com/2007/08/09/americas-cup-on-catamarans/

Registration is open again
Onlline Viewing Registration

Thanks I am now registered and setup to go. Now bring on the caffeine ROFLMAO!!!!!

DOug

WARNING!!! I GOT MY DAYS MIXED UP. Feb. 8th is Monday - not tuesday. You'll need to get up early Monday morning to see the races. The second and third races are Wed and Fri respectively.

Be sucking down the caffeine Jake.ROFLMAO...Be a good race with the fast boats. I am ready!!!

Doug

Jeff the BMW-ORACLE site says they will have everything for replay.

from the webguy at
http://33rd.americascup.com/en/regate/regarder-la-course/show.php

The access to the live streaming is now available from the website homepage
without registration.
Just click on the invitation on the homepage and you'll access the live
coverage

Team 33rd America's Cup Team

the media is starting to figure this out. They're really starting to pester EB. Particularly on the reason that Russell Coutts was prohibited from attending this press conference (which, consequently, Ellison said he will not attend because of this).

EB is such a chump. They keep asking his impressions of USA-17 and he keeps bringing it back to legal parts...the wing isn't a "sail". the boat isn't a sloop...etc.

I do wish Ellison had shown up and brought Coutts with him anyway. That would have been an explosive press conference.

Oh, and by the way, Sailing Anarchy was prohibited from getting a press pass to the Alinghi base.

I can't believe this either. I've basically grown up with a lot of you while we all do the thing we love, sailing catamarans! Now I'm proud to help bring you coverage of the event that will change the way the world looks at multihulls forever. Being this is maybe the best and only time we get to truly bring multihulls to the forefront, I hope all of us at SA, Randy and Cam make this the most fun America's Cup of all time! From the beginning, Anarchy has been my middle name, and now I say once again........BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!!!!

Believe me, EB doesn't want to answer the questions we have to ask

It truly is a pathetic state of affairs when not a single TV staion in the US is covering this race.8 bazillion bullcrap cable and satelite stations ,a 3rd of them in frickin' Spanish and not one of them can cover this race. If they put it on live it wouldn't affect a thing.What comes on at 4am besides meet skanks singles commercials. Look at this list from SA of the countries that are doing TV coverage ,and we have a boat in the game.Frickin' Pathetic.
http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showtopic=103595

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