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Rights haven't been awarded for next season yet.
And if Formula E goes to pay-TV, then the series is dead in this country. |
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Any idea if MotorsTV will be back soon like the hiatus earlier in the year???
Tuned in last night for the highlights of last weekend's sportscar race @ Watkins Glenn and zilch, no sign anywhere. In the UK, its dead |
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I may be barking up the wrong tree, but I get the feeling that the Formula E races would be better off shown in a regular 5-6PM early evening ITV 1 slot to attract casual viewers with a slight interest in car racing to help build up the audience, and leave live coverage to ITV4 or online for the few committed fans.
Max Mosley in an interview with the BBC a few years ago said what helped grow the popularity of F1 was having a regular start time (2.00PM CET) for every race in Europe. In some respects Formula E would fare better on BBC 1 or 2, due to the sheer number of casual viewers. |
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Will Channel 4 be hoping Murray doesn't get to the Wimbledon final on Sunday so there isn't an impact on their ratings for the British GP?
If there is one at all or will both events attract a different type of viewer? |
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Will Channel 4 be hoping Murray doesn't get to the Wimbledon final on Sunday so there isn't an impact on their ratings for the British GP?
If there is one at all or will both events attract a different type of viewer? |
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Will Channel 4 be hoping Murray doesn't get to the Wimbledon final on Sunday
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I can't imagine Murray will be going to Wimbledon rather than Silverstone. The doyen of F1 broadcasting! Surely not?
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Rights haven't been awarded for next season yet.
There will be an event in the UK, but they haven't announced where. Formula E has already given London’s traditional end of season double header to New York next year, and Battersea Park aren’t allowing the race to ever be held there again. Admittedly there are 2 dates that are ‘TBC’ in next year’s schedule which could be used for a London (or UK) event but with nothing planned yet it’s starting to look a bit unlikely. And to be honest, only the June date could seriously be considered due to the weather... As for the broadcasting rights, I agree that it’s vital Formula E remains as accessible as possible while it builds its fan base. Hopefully the Formula E management acknowledge this, and place more value in accessibility than actual money. |
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As for the broadcasting rights, I agree that it’s vital Formula E remains as accessible as possible while it builds its fan base. Hopefully the Formula E management acknowledge this, and place more value in accessibility than actual money.
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If Formula E does end up on PayTV it won't be because the FE management went after extra revenue (I doubt any of the PayTV broadcasters would be willing to pay that much for the rights anyway), It will purely be down to lack of interest from FTA broadcasters.
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Dave are going after live sport now, could it end up in there perhaps?
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Dave are going after live sport now, could it end up in there perhaps?
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I'll remind you all that when the Mexican race couldn't be shown live on ITV 4 because of snooker, the geo blocks were lifted on the HD youtube stream of the world feed. Should ITV not pick up season 3, I imagine that YouTube and daily motion will remain free to air.
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I think that’s far from confirmed.
Formula E has already given London’s traditional end of season double header to New York next year, and Battersea Park aren’t allowing the race to ever be held there again. Admittedly there are 2 dates that are ‘TBC’ in next year’s schedule which could be used for a London (or UK) event but with nothing planned yet it’s starting to look a bit unlikely. And to be honest, only the June date could seriously be considered due to the weather... That's about as close as you are going to get to being confirmed. Quote:
Discovery have live rights outside of UK so my bet will be the FTA channel Quest, natural progression from the Rally X.
...and that probably means Eurosport rather than Quest. |
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Alejandro Agag said that there will be a UK race when he was interviewed on ITV at the weekend.
That's about as close as you are going to get to being confirmed. |
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Seen this a few times on sky over the last few days
Very interesting interview from Ross Brawn with Martin Brundle talking about his career, F1 today and Brawn F1. https://youtu.be/QsC0X2fx1wc or http://www.skysports.com/watch/video...brawn-identity |
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Just watched the trackside f1 show from last night, not that great really.
But Johnny playing about on a hoverboard fell off onto the track, his head came ever so close to hitting it too, could have been bad. They all seemed to joke about it and Simon did mention they would get him a helmet... |
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Just watched the trackside f1 show from last night, not that great really.
But Johnny playing about on a hoverboard fell off onto the track, his head came ever so close to hitting it too, could have been bad. They all seemed to joke about it and Simon did mention they would get him a helmet... |
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Herbert being a complete donkey farting about on a hoverboard (which has no relevance to anything) just proves to me what a waste of space he is. He's just a joker who's not very funny, doesn't add anything, and talks a load of twaddle (Hamilton on the Monaco track parade, his nonsense saying Alonso should retire etc). The sooner they get rid of him, the better. Let's just say I'd have struggled to feel sorry for him if he'd fallen off that idiotic device and hurt himself. If memory serves it's illegal to use them in most places anyway, sure I remember seeing something about you can only use them on private land with the land owners permission. They're for lazy people anyway.
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My car would fail it's mot if i had something in my eyeline on the windscreen, yet they can have this "abomination" in front of them at 200mph, yet is for safety??
How come nobody (not even the commentators) have asked what happens when the car is upside down and they need to get out ie Alonso? The day this is implemented is the day after decades i say bye to F1 i am already leaning more towards touring and gt because of these stupid restrictions. If it's too dangerous go play with the soft kids in the sandpit and don't become an F1 driver. |
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Ferrari have made the central strut of the Halo thinner, although I still hold some slender hope for the Aeroscreen being used for 2018.
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Bit of poor observation from Ben. Twice we've had shots from FOM showing Markus Ericsson in civvies and his car stripped apart and then with 20 minutes to go Ben wonders why he hadn't put in a lap.
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Halo from the OnBoard on the side of the car:
https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7716/2...bc88ea9a_o.jpg And the T-Cam: https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7619/2...e0f29db0_o.jpg |
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And it case you missed it MotorsTV is back on 447 on sky
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Perhaps they could move the on-board to actually sit on / in the halo?
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