MotorsTV seems to be run on £3.50 so HD is a bit hopeful.

There were a few years of LeMans switching between Eurosport 1 HD and Eurosport 2 (not HD), which if nothing else made it blindingly obvious just how poor the SD quality was on some Sky channels.

Baku GP qualifying is likely to moved to More4 due to clashes with the Royal Ascot, another FOM cock-up there as well with it also clashing with Le Mans 24h.
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Good news for ITV though, despite losing WRC rights they have signed rights to show highlights of the World Rallycross Championship on Tuesday evening's at 8pm.

As well as that every round of the season will be shown free to air on the Eurosport owned QUEST channel which is fantastic news and and important one for the series.
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Oh come on... you're not suggesting they can manage to avoid clashing with all sports including horse racing are you? That's just not possible, or necessary.

The Le Mans clash wasn't ideal, and that's the kind of clash they should think about, although it looks like it will be possible to watch both with the F1 start time having been pushed back.

The horses have a difficult enough time as it is watching quali without this scheduling lunacy

Oh dear, do we have to switch channel so a major event enjoyed by a large number of people can be aired over a preliminary event of another sport loved by a large number of people? However will we cope at not feeling the most special?

I think it's because your post mentioned Japan and Monaco.

That was me that mentioned Japan and Monaco

I take it this means no FTA HD when F1 gets moved.

Channel 4 HD will replay it, IF its moved

I suppose that's something, I hadn't considered the lack of FTA HD when moved when C4 got the rights.

Good job Wales doesn't have the S4C problem any more.

There's 4SevenHD they can use.

It gets a bit ridiculous if they're transferring it around all these different channels.

Motors TV ceases on Freeview channel 71


As well as still being available on the freeview connected channel 240, its also still available on sky 447 and Virgin 545

Aww man I'm gutted.

It is only available to those who have FreeviewHD though, it isn't available on any other platform.

It would be nice to see Channel 4 do a Sunday MORNING show for Australia given that the race is now an hour earlier. BBC used to show highlights from around 5pm for Euro races - 4 hours after the live start - so that would be 9am I think for Australia. I'm not sure whether they are allowed to do a full length re-run (obviously with ads) or how much has to be cut out to class it as highlights ? The same could apply to Japan probably.

Probably a small thing considering all the things C4 need to get in place, but I was wondering about the theme tune they'll use.
When ITV nicked the contract from BBC they were told that BBC had the rights or something like that, to the Chain. This time, seeing as BBC decided to give up on their contract, I wonder if they'd let C4 use the Chain. F1 won't be the same without it

The Chain is the BBC's thing. C4 are going to want to establish their own brand image.

Re: Australia, I imagine C4 would do at lunchtime, being the time that most of the live races will be on.

Radio 5 Live will still be using the chain I'm sure - maybe they can unremix it...

Why bother with a morning show when it's bound to draw in fewer viewers? The afternoon highlights are fine.


Channel 4 played a small snippet of The Chain during The Jump on Sunday night. Not necessarily relevant to anything at all but still pretty amusing.

A morning showing of Australia would be nice because we could watch it with less likelihood of knowing the result. There's room across the channels for an afternoon show too. We can dream. It'll probably end up in the usual afternoon slot only.

Dunno..
You'd best put me on suicide watch !

Jp

Aw crumbs! I watched V8 Supercars and F3 on Motors TV on TalkTalk Youview...

Well remember Motors TV was on 2 channels on freeview, 71 (delivered as a traditional Terrestrial signal) and 240 (delivered via the internet), it's only channel 71 that's been switched off, not 240, so you can still watch it on the latter hopefully, if you've got a YouView box.

They use it as the bed for the formation lap under a resume of the grid positions. Not sure that an unremixed version would work for that.