Richard,
Outdoor Life Network has live same day coverage of the Giro. They are also doing the same for the Tour de France. It's cost thru Direct TV is about the same as cable. In most areas you can get local channels. Each day they are running 1 & 1/2 hrs of coverage, and rerun it several times per day. It's the best US coverage I have seen. If your local cable doesn't show OLN, then you can protest by having your local bike shop push to have a significant number of it customers threaten to disconnect cable and replace it with Satellite TV. It sucks to play hardball, but money talks (even to Cable Companies)
Hal(Watching it right now) Rudicil