F1 2015 TV Coverage

~Mike~ · 7 Jan 2015 at 12:19

Sky and BBC reveal 2015 Formula 1 coverage plan

Formula 1's British television broadcasters Sky and BBC have revealed how they will share out live coverage of races this year.

As part of a share deal agreed for the start of 2012, the two broadcasters divide the races between them - with half being shown exclusively live on Sky.

This season, Sky is getting exclusive live rights to 10 grands prix. This includes the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the blue-ribband event in Monaco and the returning event in Mexico.

The BBC will be showing the British GP live, and will broadcast four of the last six races as they happen.

The races that the BBC does not show live will be broadcast as edited highlights later in the day.

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[B]Who is showing what live in 2015[/B]

March 15     Australian GP    Sky
March 29     Malaysian GP     Sky/BBC
April 12     Chinese GP       Sky
April 19     Bahrain GP       Sky/BBC
May 10       Spanish GP       Sky
May 24       Monaco GP        Sky
June 7       Canadian GP      Sky/BBC
June 21      Austrian GP      Sky
July 5       British GP       Sky/BBC
July 19      German GP        Sky
July 26      Hungarian GP     Sky/BBC
August 23    Belgian GP       Sky/BBC
September 6  Italian GP       Sky
September 20 Singapore GP     Sky
September 27 Japanese GP      Sky/BBC
October 11   Russian GP       Sky/BBC
October 25   USA GP           Sky
November 1   Mexican GP       Sky
November 15  Brazilian GP     Sky/BBC
November 29  Abu Dhabi GP     Sky/BBC

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117295

JRS · 7 Jan 2015 at 12:53

Any chance of the BBC actually providing decent coverage this year, or are they still going to be giving us crap commentary paired with crap analysis all done with crap presenters?

Flibster · 7 Jan 2015 at 15:46

JRS said:
Any chance of the BBC actually providing decent coverage this year, or are they still going to be giving us crap commentary paired with crap analysis all done with crap presenters?

BBC don't care anymore, and it shows.

You'll get the cheapest possible broadcasts they can get away with, with the cheapest possible hosts.

Hence... EJ.

this_is_gav · 7 Jan 2015 at 16:07

Flibster said:
BBC don't care anymore, and it shows.

You'll get the cheapest possible broadcasts they can get away with, with the cheapest possible hosts.

Hence... EJ.

BBC's pre and post-race analysis is poor now, but I think Sky's coverage has been poor of late too. Presenters just standing in the paddock chatting among themselves with very little in the way of features, incite or even detectable passion. Both channels just going through the motions at the moment, doing what's necessary and little more.

Ted Kravitz (and his notebook in particular) is the only thing that separates the two channels for me.

~Mike~ · 7 Jan 2015 at 16:30

Neither side is perfect. Even Croft/Brundle make mistakes now in commentary and I still can't stand Lazenby.

As for Eddie he's mostly annoying but has his moments and Edwards commentary is still **** poor.

Ted and Natalie are the ones worth watching.

Skeeter · 7 Jan 2015 at 16:38

The wrap around on both channels is pretty worthless.

Sky's race coverage and Ted justify the Sky subscription alone though.

smr · 7 Jan 2015 at 17:28

Bbc was great until the sky takeover. But i really love skys coverage now. I cant really fault it either. The post race show goes on for ages with the extended paddock coverage.

I love the f1 show, the testing reports with ted, hour and a half build up to the race etc. Love brundle and crofty as a commentary team as well even if they do get things wrong from time to time, but given the amount of stuff happening at the start of races i think its understandable.

Nismo · 7 Jan 2015 at 18:58

smr said:
Bbc was great until the sky takeover.

Sky coming in didn't really have any bearing, did it? BBC simply couldn't afford to keep doing every race live regardless, and I dare say they would have lost out on the presenters who went anyway to save on salaries even if they did have the funds for live broadcasts.

I don't mind the Sky pundits at all, but I rarely watch the pre/post race show stuff any more unless it's the Notebook.

MissChief · 7 Jan 2015 at 19:40

Have to say I watch every race on Sky but rarely watch anything pre-race. I very rarely watch post race as well.

timmeh · 7 Jan 2015 at 20:57

Crofty is getting a bit annoying now. He just randomly starts yelling random names at you when there's even the slightest bit of action, regardless of whether anyone else is talking. 9/10 times he gets the driver name wrong and I'm pretty sure he's managed it even when there's only one driver left in the race for that team.

No idea who I'd replace him with, another Brundle would be nice or a Ted.

Twirlywoos · 7 Jan 2015 at 23:29

I quite like BBCs red button show after the race but pre race and race day Sky wins hands down because of Ted's notebook and Analysis from Ant and co. Bruno Senna and Johnny Herbert offer **** all insight so they can get the chop and I wouldn't miss them one bit.

Skeeter · 8 Jan 2015 at 07:09

If Bruno Senna drove as quickly as he talks he'd still be in F1.

JeditOjanen · 8 Jan 2015 at 12:48

Nismo said:
Sky coming in didn't really have any bearing, did it? BBC simply couldn't afford to keep doing every race live regardless, and I dare say they would have lost out on the presenters who went anyway to save on salaries even if they did have the funds for live broadcasts.

The BBC still produce full coverage of every race and sell it internationally, so this is complete nonsense. The British are literally the only people who get BBC coverage and can't watch every race live on the BBC.

Nismo · 8 Jan 2015 at 12:53

JeditOjanen said:
The BBC still produce full coverage of every race and sell it internationally, so this is complete nonsense. The British are literally the only people who get BBC coverage and can't watch every race live on the BBC.

Full coverage as in "Lights to Flag" commentary, or full coverage as in also a full (i.e. 2-3 hours) pre/post race show?

I think the backroom time and resources for full pre/post race is where they had to cut money. Doing all of them live for a longer duration each race is different to doing +/- 30 minutes of build up and analysis for a highlights show.

Do the other markets get Suzi Perry et al talking for a substantial about of time, plus pre-produced features at every race that the British viewers don't see?

~Mike~ · 8 Jan 2015 at 13:03

Skeeter said:
If Bruno Senna drove as quickly as he talks he'd still be in F1.

Lol

mattyg · 8 Jan 2015 at 13:08

I watch the whole sky show. Pre, during and post.

I like sky's coverage but they also have to cater for the casual follower

Duke · 9 Jan 2015 at 09:42

Watch 30 mins either side of race on Sky, qually just turn on usually when Q1 starts and watch some of practice depending on the time it's on - repeats are useful on F1 channel to catch up on that. Do tend to try and watch all of P3.

Skeeter · 9 Jan 2015 at 10:50

Nismo said:
Full coverage as in "Lights to Flag" commentary, or full coverage as in also a full (i.e. 2-3 hours) pre/post race show?

I think the backroom time and resources for full pre/post race is where they had to cut money. Doing all of them live for a longer duration each race is different to doing +/- 30 minutes of build up and analysis for a highlights show.

Do the other markets get Suzi Perry et al talking for a substantial about of time, plus pre-produced features at every race that the British viewers don't see?

BBC produce a full lights to flag cometary for every race. Basically the chunk of the show over the FOM World Feed (from the F1 logo at the start of the race through until the end of the podium). This is just an audio track as the video feed is the standard FOM one everyone gets. This is sold across the globe to TV broadcasters who cant/dont provide their own cometary. This is edited down for the UK highlights show.

The Susie Perry et all wrap around shows are only filmed in full for the races shown in full in the UK. There is no additional pre and post race show content produced that is then not shown in the UK.

So in summary, all the UK "miss out on" from what the BBC produce is the bits of Ben Edwards waffle they cut out of the race to make the highlights.

mattyg said:
I watch the whole sky show. Pre, during and post.

I like sky's coverage but they also have to cater for the casual follower

I've not watched build ups for years. Probably from back in the ITV days. My standard practice is to turn on for Brundles grid walk, and turn off as soon as the cringe worthy podium interviews start.

kaiowas · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:26

Skeeter said:
BBC produce a full lights to flag cometary for every race. Basically the chunk of the show over the FOM World Feed (from the F1 logo at the start of the race through until the end of the podium). This is just an audio track as the video feed is the standard FOM one everyone gets. This is sold across the globe to TV broadcasters who cant/dont provide their own cometary. This is edited down for the UK highlights show.

The most frustrating thing about the BBC coverage of the non-live races is that we have no option to watch the race in full at any time. I can deal with not watching races live (I'm often busy in the day time and watch races of an evening anyway) I don't care about the pre and post race rubbish, I'm not that fussed about the commentators (I'm so used to them spouting nonsense that I usually tune out most of what they're saying anyway) but I would like to watch the race unfold in full in real time.

They've got enough channels, all they need to do is show the highlights show as normal and then a full re-run on BBC 4 at 3am or something that I can record and watch whenever.

Skeeter · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:38

kaiowas said:
The most frustrating thing about the BBC coverage of the non-live races is that we have no option to watch the race in full at any time. I can deal with not watching races live (I'm often busy in the day time and watch races of an evening anyway) I don't care about the pre and post race rubbish, I'm not that fussed about the commentators (I'm so used to them spouting nonsense that I usually tune out most of what they're saying anyway) but I would like to watch the race unfold in full in real time.

They've got enough channels, all they need to do is show the highlights show as normal and then a full re-run on BBC 4 at 3am or something that I can record and watch whenever.

Its not that simple. BBC have a contract to show half the races in full, and half as delayed extended highlights. This is the FOMs footage, so any contract to show more of it will be more expensive.

BBC have not paid to be able to broadcast full coverage of all races anywhere.