F1 on TV - 2019
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No races will be shown live on terrestrial TV from next year (edit: except the British GP which will be shown on an as yet unknown channel). There has been statements of highlights being shown after the race, but as of yet we don't know what this will entail, who the team will be, or which channel it will be on. At the moment, it's looking most likely that highlights will be on one of the free-to-air Sky owned channels on freeview, rather than something akin to what we have already with Channel 4, which would be a shame. Plenty of people are hoping that Sky may still outsource to a separate company, perhaps to the current channel 4 team, but as of yet there has been no detail on this.
I guess we won't hear any solid details until after this season.
I guess we won't hear any solid details until after this season.
Edited by Andy S15 on Friday 8th June 11:40
Andy S15 said:
No races will be shown live on terrestrial TV from next year. There has been statements of highlights being shown after the race, but as of yet we don't know what this will entail, who the team will be, or which channel it will be on. At the moment, it's looking most likely that highlights will be on one of the free-to-air Sky owned channels on freeview, rather than something akin to what we have already with Channel 4, which would be a shame. Plenty of people are hoping that Sky may still outsource to a separate company, perhaps to the current channel 4 team, but as of yet there has been no detail on this.
I guess we won't hear any solid details until after this season.
Many thanks for that. I guess I shall hold fire until we know more!I guess we won't hear any solid details until after this season.
thegreenhell said:
Andy S15 said:
No races will be shown live on terrestrial TV from next year.
The British GP will still be live on a free terrestrial channel, if I remember correctly.mollytherocker said:
My Sky 'legacy' deal is up soon and I am seriously thinking about quitting them.
Not the time to ditch it if you want to follow the sport IMO. I have managed to avoid getting Sky F1 for a few years by watching C4 and buying the occasional NowTV pass, but for next year I am going to have to consider getting Sky (which is a shame because I thought the C4 coverage was better in every way)Mr Pointy said:
HighwayStar said:
If I can have just the sports channels without the movies and other stuff at a decent price I might go that way... Otherwise I'll have to find a decent pub or not bother with F1.
Other access mechanisms are available...Back on point... That's a specific rant rather than something like F1 which was always free to air. It is what it is now... If the price isn't right, there's other things.
HustleRussell said:
Not the time to ditch it if you want to follow the sport IMO. I have managed to avoid getting Sky F1 for a few years by watching C4 and buying the occasional NowTV pass, but for next year I am going to have to consider getting Sky (which is a shame because I thought the C4 coverage was better in every way)
Funny isn't it, thanks to the methods I use to watch the various sessions of F1, I experience both commentary teams pretty often, I'd say the Sky team are far ahead of the C4 offering.... they're not bad in isolation I suppose but given the choice I'll take Sky every time.I still think Sky have really missed a trick though calling the channel Sky Sports F1.... They should have called it Sky Motorsports and catered to the sport in general, does anyone actually watch the channel currently apart from for the practise sessions, quali and the race - they'd have much more ad revenue if there was fresh content of all types of motorsport I reckon.
Edited by K50 DEL on Wednesday 13th June 08:51
K50 DEL said:
HustleRussell said:
Not the time to ditch it if you want to follow the sport IMO. I have managed to avoid getting Sky F1 for a few years by watching C4 and buying the occasional NowTV pass, but for next year I am going to have to consider getting Sky (which is a shame because I thought the C4 coverage was better in every way)
Funny isn't it, thanks to the methods I use to watch the various sessions of F1, I experience both commentary teams pretty often, I'd say the Sky team are far ahead of the C4 offering.... they're not bad in isolation I suppose but given the choice I'll take C4 every time.I still think Sky have really missed a trick though calling the channel Sky Sports F1.... They should have called it Sky Motorsports and catered to the sport in general, does anyone actually watch the channel currently apart from for the practise sessions, quali and the race - they'd have much more ad revenue if there was fresh content of all types of motorsport I reckon.
ITV Sport... Touring Cars, Brit Superbike?
Is there much left for a Sky Motorsports channel? They don't really have the money to throw around like they used to.
HighwayStar said:
thegreenhell said:
HighwayStar said:
I don't have Sky but my dad has.
Sky Go is available free to all Sky subscribers, and you can add multiple devices to a single Sky Go account...
if you try to watch sky f1 in the virgin app it just sends you to the sky app anyway so i don't bother with the virgin app just the sky f1 app.
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