Cycling fans in the UK are being given the option of a new ‘Saver Plan’ once TNT Sports’ racing coverage moves to Warner Bros. Discovery’s HBO Max streaming platform later this month, reducing the monthly subscription from £30.99 to £25.99. However, this will only apply when committing to a minimum of 12 months and still leaves the annual cost at £311.
The announcement came this morning as Warner Bros. Discovery offered some more details of the imminent move of all TNT Sports content from discovery+ to HBO Max, the multinational mass media and entertainment giant streamlining its output and consolidating its TNT Sports coverage on its HBO Max streaming platform.
This has now been confirmed for Thursday 26 March, meaning all racing coverage previously available on discovery+ will switch over, starting with stage four of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya and the women’s edition of Ronde van Brugge. The races will still be broadcast on TNT Sports’ TV channels, but all streaming via discovery+ will be on HBO Max.
Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed there will be a new ‘Saver Plan’ reducing the monthly cost of a TNT Sports subscription by 16 per cent, from £30.99 to £25.99. However, this will require a minimum 12-month term, so the total annual cost will still be £311.88 (it was £371.88 previously).
The cheapest saver plan including HBO Max and TNT Sports is £27.99-a-month and the monthly plan for just TNT Sports, which can be cancelled at any time, remains at £30.99.
It represents a very slight softening of Warner Bros. Discovery’s pricing strategy for sports fans, however the 16 per cent monthly reduction will not stop the annual cost of watching cycling via TNT Sports topping £300, multiple times more than what it previously cost before Warner Bros. Discovery closed Eurosport and moved its content to TNT Sports.
While the table above mentions different prices for packages with or without adverts, this does not apply to cycling and sport coverage on TNT Sports, which will continue to feature adverts.
Warner Bros. Discovery tells us: “HBO Max will be available on all major devices including select TVs, set-top boxes, streaming devices, mobiles, tablets, game consoles and platforms including Android, EE / BT TV, Fire TV, iOS, LG, PlayStation, Roku, Samsung, Virgin TV and Xbox.
“Subscribers will be able to create up to five personalised profiles, receive tailored recommendations and enjoy features like Continue Watching and, depending on your plan, offline downloads.”
The move to HBO Max has long been in the pipeline, Warner Bros. Discovery wanting to consolidate its content under one platform, hence cycling and other more niche sports moving from Eurosport to TNT Sports/discovery+ and now to HBO Max.
HBO Max features all of Warner Bros. Discovery’s entertainment content, including film and TV.
Fans who only wish to purchase TNT Sports, can choose a 12-month subscription via HBO Max, saving £5 per month or £60 a year, when compared to the monthly plan. However, as mentioned earlier, this still is significantly more expensive than previous subscription services to watch cycling, such as GCN+ and Eurosport, and still works out at more than £300 per year, without any option to pause a subscription, for example at the end of the road season.
27 thoughts on “UK cycling fans can save £5 per month on ‘Saver Plan’ once TNT Sports moves to HBO Max this month, but only if you commit to £25.99-a-month subscription for full year”
£26 a month…. with ads? Forking thieving pirates.
1. Cable TV with crazy prices and Ads
2. Streaming without ads for a reasonable price with most things you want available on a few services.
3. Streaming without ads for a reasonable price with most things you want available on a few dozen services.
4. Streaming with ads for a reasonable price with most things you want available on dozens of services.
5. Streaming with ads for an unreasonable price with most things you want available on a few services.
Personally I am sailing the seven seas again for the first time in years because they are all a bunch of money grabbing ***** who cannot fathom a business that isn’t constantly growing and making more profit every year.
I absolutely draw the line at paying silly money for a service and having ads as well. How on earth anyone pays for the likes of Sky Sports is beyond me. Surely they are propped up by the boomers and will die out along with them.
I’ve done this too, got sick of being gouged by streamers with constant price increases or worse service.
I especially appreciate it when these companies come out decrying piracy and people stealing the content as justification for why its so expensive. “We’re losing £200m/year to piracy”. No you’re not, you’re losing an absolute fraction of that because no one who pirates it would pay your crazy prices. If piracy didn’t exist, they just wouldn’t watch. People are lazy and piracy requires knowledge and application to do. If I could pay a reasonable fee for the content legally I would happily do so. I can’t, so I don’t
Indeed, I was a subscriber to cycling.tv (or whatever it was many years ago). Then I moved to the Eurosport Player subscription for a number of years. That then morphed into Eurosport via Sky, with Discovery+ giving the advert free coverage.
When Eurosport left Sky and folded into TNT there was no reduction in the cost of that service via Sky. Over £30 a month when I am working Mon-Fri, so can only really watch live races at the weekend, is too much.
As it happens, thanks to the recently announced Sky price rises I will be leaving Sky next week, so I won’t have anything.
What marketing genius decided that sports coverage should move from a sports channel to a home box office channel?
Also which genius strategist decided to go from GCN to Discovery to Eurosport to TNT to HBO all in a few years?
I don’t think so.
Hahahahahahaha good one.
VPN & Sporza etc it still is then.
Sporza has great coverage.
If you speak Dutch, it’s even better. If you don’t, you’ll stick pick out the riders names when their tone gets more excited. 😉 (And as a bonus, you may end up learning how to pronounce “Van der Poel”, and “Van Aert” correctly!)
I subscribed when Eurosport was standalone £30/£60 per year.
Anyway, most subscriptions now involve tacit supporter for donnie the wrong’un.
KFC, Big Macs etc are also out of bounds whilst idiocy rules.
My feelings exactly. Who owns these huge media companies? Who do they give money to? American politics is now so corrupt, I want as little as possible of my money going to support company profits that then subsidise lobby groups like AIPAC – and all the subsequent misery and destruction they bring to the world.
Unfortunately, Kid Starver signed that deal with Palantir, so using the NHS is now going to support Peter Thiel and his evil agenda.
Go and see Dodgy Dave from down The Rose and Crown. He will sort you out with all the channels you will ever need for the princely sum of 60 sovereigns a year.
On behalf of those of us who have never used a VPN, and in my case have no intention of doing so, I ask: surely this pirating of European video content is illegal, whatever Dodgy claims? Or is it only illegal in the ‘illegal electric motorbike’ sense, or the ‘No MOT, failed MOT’ dangerous on the road sense where the police refuse to take action against it?
Are you a nun?
I don’t think they allow XY male atheists in!
They used to
No, it’s not illegal to use a VPN to stream geofenced content in the UK. You may breach the supplier’s T&C’s and they might suspend or restrict your account, but you’re not breaking any laws.
Using a VPN is not illegal. It’s a perfectly legal ‘trick’. You can’t access paid content with a VPN you just change the location of the server.
It’s not illegal to use a VPN but I think OxyMoron is talking about a dodgy Firestick that illegally allows you to watch most streamed content free of charge.
Yeah, the dodgy Firestick is the illegal part in this, not the use of a VPN.
If you don’t pay it’s a 100% price reduction
Much as I enjoyed watching live cycling on telly, I have learnt to live without it, as well as having some time freed up to do other things.
TNT can do one.
I’m no fan of the adverts during the bigger races but there are often ad free streams available alongside the advert filled one – Paris-Nice & Tirreno both had them recently.
If you’re on EE for your mobile then TNT/Discovery can be had for £20 a month which kind of softens the blow a little bit.
This isn’t really a new price at all, they’ve been offering a 12-month lock-in d+ Sports-Only plan to previous subscribers since at least November 2025 for £25.49 / month.
Still an incredibly poor deal unless you watch a lot of sports other than cycling. And, ignoring the ads for a minute, the coverage has been below par. In Strade Bianche, for example, they missed the decisive moment when Pog dropped Seixas.
I subscribed from beginning of October until beginning of February so that I could watch the CX, most often on catch up. For the rest of the year, VPN rules the day.