Formula One TV Coverage

[tderias]

Thank you iceman! Karun Chandhok and Ted Kravitz are TV gold!

[Alex_f1_baby]

Nobody judging anybody

What I mean is, the F1 channel is a dedicated channel, it contains the thursday and friday press conferences, both practice session, The F1 show Friday analysis, 3rd practice, support races, hour qualifying build up, qualifying, hour afterwards. Sunday support races, hour and a half build up, hour or two after race analysis. Along with having a much more diverse and proffessional team, they have the latest technology available to disect the race and its pivitol moments.

Thats why I say the F1 channel is a much more dedicated and hardcore aimed fanbase; because those who pay for the channel are more than likely to enjoy this sort of thing. The BBC did the after forum and it was a huge hit. But now, with half the races, BBC have mostly cut what they used to do. in 2009 what they used to do had never been done before; practice sessions, after forum. All new stuff.

Since losing free-to-air all the races, BBC has put less into it and the quality IMO has declined. Its become less in depth, but enough to keep the regular fans in but also much more appealing to the wider audience.

There two target-audiences. Sky to me, theres alot they can do with the F1 channel itself to improve, but their live coverage, before and after shows to me are supreme. they have the budget, the people, the people with the knowledge, and for the hardcore F1 fans it is a superb display of presenting and breaking down the sport trump the BBC and rightfully so given the budget.

But i still maintain that the F1 Channel is for the hardcore fans, those with deep interest. They are the people who would pay for it, and they are the people who would take interest and appreciate the analysis and how far they go as opposed to someone whos heart isn't in the sport.

its like, if the BBC did an hour programme on a friday night, or if they did extensive pre and post race programmes and analysis, if they showed support races and now half days of testing, would you watch it and enjoy it? I presume so. Im not against people refusing to pay for it, I was against the idea but then I look at it as a bottle of Jaegermeister a month less. But its nothing to do with saying 'oh your not a fan if you dont pay', thats bollocks and we all know that. But SkyF1's target audience is the hardcore, heart in the sport fans, those who are willing to pay. People who dont really have their heart in the sport wouldnt pay for it, and they wouldnt be interested in post race analysis and how a wing works or what upgrades are doing this etc.

See, Sky has you by the b***; to get F1 you gotta get the sports pack. Ive had to take the sports pack on virgin media because they dont do the channel alone. I dont watch other sports, cept snooker on the sports channels. Id love to jsut pay a tenner a month for Skysports F1 alone. Or, if they actually did something better with the actual channel during weekdays.

They have access to all these seasons, why not do some seasons per week? Like do 1970 season, over 4 or 5 days, 2 or 3 full races a day? Or something to that effect? Id love to relieve the full races from 2003-2009 again. I know they did some of that last year, but id love to relieve the races in its entirety the way they were shown.

Same with the F1 legends programme; need alot more than just the same repeats. Why not thrown in the old 'Grand Prix' film every month or so, throw in Senna too?

Their coverage live is superb, but the rest of the channel is wasting away.

I've always considered myself a fairly hardcore fan by the way I follow the sport. I check for F1 news like I would check an email and its never far from my mind throughout the day. Having said that I don't think I could dedicate as much time as you claim to watching things on the F1 channel. I certainly couldn't give up an entire Sunday by watching the support races, build up and the race. If the BBC showed that I'm sure I would catch parts of it or record them to watch later, but I wouldn't watch them religiously. I think you can have too much of a good thing. Obviously its nice to have the choice though. Like yourself I would be interested if I could just buy the F1 channel on its own without all the other sports channels. £10 a month is attractive and I think they would get more viewers. Unfortunately Sky want you to buy a full subscription and have got greedy by asking too much IMO. Its out of my price range and from what I have seen its simply not worth the cost. I'm happy with the BBC but wish it had all the races live. I prefer the presentation, the commentary team and their analysis. Its indepth enough for me and I don't think it is watered down for the more casual viewer. We'll have to agree to disagree on that.

This deal is only good if you are in a financial position to afford hundreds of pounds a year to continue watching. There are many die hard fans like myself who can't afford it and its not good in the longterm IMO. Anyway I'm not going to moan about it because I can't change it.

[mikhailv]

Formula 1 weekends, are weekends spend mostly watching F1!

many races though, I usually have a friend or two round now, grab a takeaway, get some alcohol and watch the race. Like America last year, my mate lauren stayed over, so me her and dad ordered pizza's and garlic bread, had the drinks flowing. She never watched a grand prix before, but from the pre-race build up to the post race analysis, all 5 hours she was hooked. Helpfull that she likes cars, but yeah.

I mean, they way I see GP weekends, is like I get up before practice, sort breakfest out. Bacon cob watching FP1, do what I need to before FP2. Saturday is the same thing, Sunday the same. from 5pm onwards i usually go out though. But I love spending a race weekend dossing and just enjoying the sport I love. I dont watch anything else other motogp, BTCC or F1.

Ill have done 50-60 hours mon-fri at work, so my downtime is F1. I cant get enough, never suffer from too much of a good thing, otherwise it wouldnt be good!!!! :P

[tderias]

Reports of Georgie abandoning Sky F1:
http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/85 ... ve-Sky-F1-

[iceman1]

Reports of Georgie abandoning Sky F1:
http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/85 ... ve-Sky-F1-

Good, because she's useless

[tderias]

Reports of Georgie abandoning Sky F1:
http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/85 ... ve-Sky-F1-

Good, because she's useless

Although mikhailv might disagree

[kals]

Georgie tries to come across as knowledgable but she seems very vacant and often predictable.

[phil1993]

Khodr will be happy if that gives his favourite presenter a larger role.

[iceman1]

Khodr will be happy if that gives his favourite presenter a larger role.

She's not anymore. I found out that she's so "fake"

I'll stick with Lee

[mikhailv]

Oh come on, georgie might not have been that good at presenting, but my god. Formula 1 is a Sausagefest, and she was something different!!!






Now im hoping I speak for the male population when I say, she would NOT be able to walk in the morning!

[iceman1]

I saw her in Abu Dhabi, she's very short and not that pretty

With or without her the coverage will be the same!

[mikhailv]

I saw her in Abu Dhabi, she's very short and not that pretty

With or without her the coverage will be the same!

Yeah, important people are still there. She looks nice on television, and nice on the screen. Real Life is probably a let down lol!

[KevC]

Reports of Georgie abandoning Sky F1:
http://www.planetf1.com/driver/18227/85 ... ve-Sky-F1-

That happened a couple of weeks ago. She's gone to the forthcoming BT Football channel. She was deleted from the Sky F1 team page in early February.

[donald29]

Bought the BBC F1 preview magazine, have read the opening pieces and bit on Hamilton. Have to say, it's pretty weak stuff. You'd at least expect Jenson Button to be spelt right (not Jensen) but leaving that to one side you still have them spinning about only having highlights of some races bringing F1 to a new audience. Yawn.

Then there's the Hamilton article. Replacing Schumacher with Hamilton is compared to Prost leaving Ferrari in 1991 and Schumacher joining in 1996. What? How does that work? It just seems to be so the writer can say Schumacher 'replaced' Prost in 1996, this time he's the one being replaced... It also speculates whether Hamilton might regret leaving McLaren, fair enough but goes on to use Alonso and Montoya as examples of drivers leaving McLaren and regretting it. This was seemingly on the basis Alonso didn't have a great season in 2008 and Montoya is in NASCAR. But neither of them would tell you they regret leaving! They're much happier where they are now, and to be honest Hamilton already seems to be as well.

There was one interesting thing though, BBC Two will be broadcasting practice of the live BBC races. This they say will mean 4 hours extra coverage on those weekends, I can only assume when it was broadcast on the red button it didn't count as practice as I doubt they'll have two hours of pre / post practice coverage for each session! But it does say they'll have unprecedented access to the teams and full details will be confirmed soon which is interesting. Having some competition broadcasting F1 is doing no harm at all here as the broadcasters innovate and try to out do one another.

[tderias]

Pretty sure you guys have seen/heard about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7TB8b2t ... e=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BTCoT8ajbI

Surely now, Google should sign a deal with Formula 1 and we can get the first helmets that incorporate the Google Glass technology. Viewers can watch the race from the driver's perspective, and maybe even drivers can access telemetry and other information as to who's behind them and by how far, much like a video game is today. It probably won't happen in my lifetime, but hey, one can dream