Originally Posted by TheSubaru2012:
“There seems to be a new show on TalkSport 2 on Wednesday called 'The Grand Prix' show with Rachael Brookes and Johnny Herbert presenting. It's a preview of the Abu Dhabi apparently which is going out at 10:00pm that evening.”
Rachel has tonnes of radio experience (she'll always be the Rachel in "Rick and Rachel in the morning... Power FM!" to me...) so it's a good fit for her, and Murdoch now owns Talksport as well as the majority of Sky so it's a quick and easy value add, but BBC 5 live have exclusive radio rights for a great number of years to come... so presumably they won't be able to broadcast from the circuits, or include any material that comes from the circuits, including commentary (as a non-news show presumably they wouldn't even be able to include any clips at all)?
If because of the above, it has to be UK studio based, then as a one-off I guess it's OK, but if this is planned to be an ongoing thing (as the name suggests) wouldn't it make sense to just play out the midweek F1 report thing currently on Sky on talksport 2, as they're going to end up being largely the same programme?
Whatever I'll stick with 5 live and give this a wide berth. Hearing Herbert's limited punditry on yet another programme doesn't appeal stangely.
It'll be interesting to see now News UK own talksport how much over the next few years the amount of money spent on radio broadcast rights of sport by the BBC gets attacked in The Sun and The Times...