Sky Sports to remain home of Formula 1 until 2029 after deal extended in all Sky markets

MissChief · 30 Sep 2022 at 11:22

Sky Sports to remain home of Formula 1 until 2029 after deal extended in all Sky markets

Sky announces multi-year extension of broadcast partnership with Formula 1; Sky Sports will remain exclusive home of F1 in the UK & Ireland until 2029, while Sky Deutschland and Sky Italia will retain rights until 2027 with greater exclusivity

www.skysports.com

As before this is expected to continue the ‘blackout’ of F1TV Pro in the UK and Ireland.

Yaayuh! · 30 Sep 2022 at 11:25

*sigh*

Might stop watching soon if Sky don't do something drastic with pricing.

MissChief · 30 Sep 2022 at 11:38

Yaayuh! said:
*sigh*

Might stop watching soon if Sky don't do something drastic with pricing.

I’m sure they’ll be happy to drastically raise it.

Junglist · 30 Sep 2022 at 11:50

Well, that sucks. Was hoping F1TV would be a thing here or that DAZN would get the rights as they have it in other territories. I literally only have Sky Sports for F1 and the odd boxing card. I'd be a few quid better off each month without Sky.

~Mike~ · 30 Sep 2022 at 13:02

Is it confirmed that the new deal still excludes F1TV?

Greboth · 30 Sep 2022 at 14:20

I can't believe Sky won't have gone for an exclusive deal again.

I mostly watch the 5 minute highlights on Youtube these days but a shame, F1TV seems to be a much better option and pricing.

413x · 30 Sep 2022 at 14:24

I don't mind. Live races are too boring and take too much time over the summer weekends.

As long as highlights are still on c4 in a similar form to now I don't mind.

Really I don't want to sit through 3 hours of TV when only an hour is worth watching. If that.

Valo · 30 Sep 2022 at 16:27

Absolutely gutted! I point blank refuse to pay the price Sky are asking, the NOW TV streaming option is an absolute disgrace as well with HD being a chargeable add-on!
I was at least hoping for access to F1TV Pro on my AppleTV with any extended deal between F1 and Sky, like the deal done between F1 and FoxTel in Australia.

I'll be making do with the highlights on Channel 4 which I actually think is a better produced product.

What happened to customer/fan choice? The UK fans being hung out to dry again!

413x · 30 Sep 2022 at 18:15

Valo said:
Absolutely gutted! I point blank refuse to pay the price Sky are asking, the NOW TV streaming option is an absolute disgrace as well with HD being a chargeable add-on!
I was at least hoping for access to F1TV Pro on my AppleTV with any extended deal between F1 and Sky, like the deal done between F1 and FoxTel in Australia.

I'll be making do with the highlights on Channel 4 which I actually think is a better produced product.

What happened to customer/fan choice? The UK fans being hung out to dry again!

I like the c4 coverage. Its like a comedy show. Much like f1. I'm on board with the light hearted vibe

cuke2u · 30 Sep 2022 at 18:37

Excellent news, Sky have the best coverage of F1 I've experienced and the PQ is sublime..

Kanpai · 1 Oct 2022 at 07:53

UHD HDR is the only good thing about Sky F1

Jono8 · 1 Oct 2022 at 08:58

Silly price that i will never pay.

muon · 1 Oct 2022 at 15:09

Sky Sports is cheap enough on Nowtv. I think i've been paying <£20 a month for years now.

Oyeee · 7 Oct 2022 at 21:54

muon said:
Sky Sports is cheap enough on Nowtv. I think i've been paying <£20 a month for years now.

It's £25 + £5 for HD. Daylight Robbery.

andy_mk3 · 7 Oct 2022 at 23:12

Oyeee said:
It's £25 + £5 for HD. Daylight Robbery.

Paying extra for hd in 2022 is laughable. It should be the norm by now.

I’ll continue to use f1tv, I’m not paying stupid amounts of money for sky or anything else.

muon · 8 Oct 2022 at 08:08

Oyeee said:
It's £25 + £5 for HD. Daylight Robbery.

There are usually guaranteed to be £20 a month offers which come out when the F1 season starts or the football season starts. Also if you keep threatening to cancel boost you always get a good offer. My most recent one was 3 months boost for free.

Freakbro · 8 Oct 2022 at 10:57

I've still managed to hold on to the very old legacy deal that got the F1 channel for paying £10 / month for HD.

Feek · 8 Oct 2022 at 14:28

Freakbro said:
I've still managed to hold on to the very old legacy deal that got the F1 channel for paying £10 / month for HD.

Don’t even start me on that. I used to have it, now I don’t. Sore point.

Yaayuh! · 10 Oct 2022 at 14:08

Freakbro said:
I've still managed to hold on to the very old legacy deal that got the F1 channel for paying £10 / month for HD.

Me too! Still don't like paying for it though

Every time we're up for renewal I have to do the whole "We got F1 HD when it was a single product years ago, I don't need all the sports channels" etc etc rant. But it's worked.

I do however have UHD and all the other (non-sports) channels mind, so they're still getting a pretty penny from me!

V F · 13 Oct 2022 at 12:00

413x said:
I don't mind. Live races are too boring and take too much time over the summer weekends.

As long as highlights are still on c4 in a similar form to now I don't mind.

Really I don't want to sit through 3 hours of TV when only an hour is worth watching. If that.

That's the reason I haven't enjoyed F1 since... Or haven't even watched a full season since at least 2012 or 2013. When it used to be the V6s. When they went turbo my interest really got lost with it and how much the grid has changed since then. Plus the outside politics coming into the sport and all the twitter coverage.

Back in 2009, the Brawn days to 2012/13 I'd be glued to every practice session, even 2007/2008, qualifying, race/build up and after plus post race discussion when it used to be 1 - 2 hours after the race with the Sky crew. Including the weekly F1 show in their studio through the week. I'd have been glued to it.

These years I just cannot find any interest even though I have the F1 package. MotoGP seems to have sparked my interest this year. You don't seem to get circus antics with MotoGP plus it feels more interesting like the way F1 was with ITV/BBC. Crofty just seems to get louder and louder anytime I check it out compared to 2009/10. I'd take Murray Walker over Crofty if it was possible.