Sky F1 channel now live.
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Badgerboy said:
Grovsie26 said:
Lol whoopie f
king do.
What exactly are they gonna show for the 6 days a week it's on not? fk all.
I would imagine re-runs of previous races perhaps, or historic races. They have access to the FOM archive as part of the deal.king do.What exactly are they gonna show for the 6 days a week it's on not? f
k all.Gizmo! said:
They're showing GP2 and GP3 too.
And Indy Cars.I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
BelperJim said:
And Indy Cars.
I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
That'd be interesting. Bernie has always insisted in the past that from the FIA World Championship logo at the start, until the champagne at the end, it was unbroken FOM.I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
BelperJim said:
And Indy Cars.
I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
Yay for looking at the pretty girl in the pit lane instead of the boring cars going round in circles then...I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
BelperJim said:
Or from a less cynical point of view getting access to the teams and cars previously unseen during the race.
How does looking at Christian Horner's slightly odd teeth add more to the experience than watching the cars? listening to the interviewees works quite nicely, and there are much better times to find out what a wheel looks like (round, by the way).davepoth said:
How does looking at Christian Horner's slightly odd teeth add more to the experience than watching the cars? listening to the interviewees works quite nicely, and there are much better times to find out what a wheel looks like (round, by the way).
I don't know they haven't started broadcasting yet. Just trying to point out it might have its positives. I'll save my judgements for a few races in.BelperJim said:
And Indy Cars.
I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
That sound ominously like they're going to do the usual Sky thing of constantly cutting away from the action for no good reason. Back when they showed A1gp they used to do that a lot, especially if the safety car came out. It caused them to miss action on several occasions which they then had to show on replay. On one race while showing the replay of the stuff we'd missed they managed to miss something else causing them to go straight to yet another replay!I also read something interesting in MotorSport Magazine this month about the coverage, not sure if it's been discussed here yet. Apparently Sky are the only broadcast company in the world who have the permission to switch away from the FOM feed so will be able to show their own reporters in the pit lane and garages. They also hinted that they may have reporters at team factories reporting on the activity taking place back at base. Sorry if that is old news.
It was extremely irritating as the stuff they cut away to was never worthwhile, often just whoever they had in the studio. It could have been easily saved until after the race.
I really hoped they'd learnt and realised people tuning in to watch a race actually would rather see the race! Hoping this isn't the case or I'll be sticking to the BBC. (When I can.)
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