Discussion
Speed Badger said:
For about every four or five adverts the US coverage had, BT Sport would have around one. They would stay with the US feed and we would usually get Keith Collantine & Tom Gaymore providing UK commentary over the pictures. Sky need to take a leaf out of that model.
It worked. That's all we ask for.According to the Motorsport broadcasting blog on Twitter; we used to get the International feed; now on Sky we're getting the US feed.
I think the US broadcasting rights have changed anyway as it used to be ESPN coverage on ABC, but now this is NBCSN's own coverage. In the old days of Sky coverage when it was produced by ESPN for ABC they used to go back to the Sky studio and I prefer adverts than listening to Keith Huewen.
"On March 21, 2018, NBC Sports announced that it had acquired the television rights to the IndyCar Series (after previously serving as cable rightsholder through NBCSN for races not aired by ABC), replacing the package of races on ABC with a package of eight races on NBC, including the Indianapolis 500 (ending ABC's 54-year tenure as broadcaster of the event)."
Blame NBCSN for the adverts and single feed option.
"On March 21, 2018, NBC Sports announced that it had acquired the television rights to the IndyCar Series (after previously serving as cable rightsholder through NBCSN for races not aired by ABC), replacing the package of races on ABC with a package of eight races on NBC, including the Indianapolis 500 (ending ABC's 54-year tenure as broadcaster of the event)."
Blame NBCSN for the adverts and single feed option.
Eric Mc said:
Watched the highlights on You Tube. Perfectly adequate.
The good thing about Indycar is that you are far less likely to discover the result by accident.
The 30 minute highlights are perfect. The good thing about Indycar is that you are far less likely to discover the result by accident.
Watched it last night.
On your last point, I did get caught out by Google and the news telling me the result on Sunday. Bah. Will have to do what I do on an F1 weekend and avoid all feeds.
Very telling that most of the comments here are about the coverage rather than the race itself. Hopefully Sky will sort itself out. As a BT customer I’m now faced with the prospect of an expensive upgrade to continue watching IndyCar.
We were at the race over the weekend and it was a cracking event. I would highly recommend it to Brits who fancy a bit of winter race action. The weather was great, the spectating is excellent, the city fun and the race itself utterly gripping. We got even more up close and personal with the cars and stars than we did at Indianapolis a couple of years ago.
I’ll do a full write-up of the event in due course but it was superb. Still buzzing from it!
We were at the race over the weekend and it was a cracking event. I would highly recommend it to Brits who fancy a bit of winter race action. The weather was great, the spectating is excellent, the city fun and the race itself utterly gripping. We got even more up close and personal with the cars and stars than we did at Indianapolis a couple of years ago.
I’ll do a full write-up of the event in due course but it was superb. Still buzzing from it!
Sheetmaself said:
And stadium trucks!!!!!
No longer on the Australian Supercars race weekends and banned in Australia - https://www.autosport.com/sup/news/139334/super-tr...Shame - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqFr8epz2aY
Definitely will be watching the race, the last one was great fun. I love that the races are late, so you actually have time to watch them when the kids are put to bed. F1 races at 14.00 is impossible, it takes up the whole day.
Here in Sweden it was ad free, though on a very expensive sub incl f1. Cant stand us commercials, so im glad it is..
Here in Sweden it was ad free, though on a very expensive sub incl f1. Cant stand us commercials, so im glad it is..
Edited by CedricN on Friday 22 March 17:20
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