*** The SKY F1 2012 Coverage Thread ***

Skeeter said:
Sky are planning on spending hundreds of millions of pounds on their F1 coverage! I assume that's over the 7 years, but still, that's a huge budget for F1 programming! Wow. And to think, people are suggesting Sky aren't fully committed, or that someone else would be able to buy them out of the contract :p
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I should think Murdoch will be putting that down to investment as he'll be looking to buy F1 from CVC in the next 5 years or so when Bernie gives up the reigns.
 
That schedule actually looks really poor to me considering all the hype over this 'dedicated channel'.

Just looking at the Aussie GP. You've got no support races and, most importantly, no full re-run meaning that you've only got one opportunity to catch the full race and that's at daft-o-clock. With all that air time to fill you'd expect the schedule to be full of re-runs and support races.
 
kaiowas said:
That schedule actually looks really poor to me considering all the hype over this 'dedicated channel'.

Just looking at the Aussie GP. You've got no support races and, most importantly, no full re-run meaning that you've only got one opportunity to catch the full race and that's at daft-o-clock. With all that air time to fill you'd expect the schedule to be full of re-runs and support races.
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Given that the schedule is only a rumour, and there's a massive ten-hour block without anything to show, I'd say you're probably jumping the gun there slightly.
 
The F1 channel is only showing the support races owned by Bernie, so GP2 and GP3, and neither of them are running at the Australian GP. The support races for Australia are V8 Supercars and some Australian single seater racing I think, which have their own TV rights.

The familiar support races will come when we get to Europe. GP2 and GP3 will be on the F1 channel, while the Porsche Supercup is shown elsewhere (Eurosport I think?).

With Formula E being new it doesn't have any existing TV rights elsewhere, so the chances of SSF1 getting it are probably quite high.

Oh, and why would they bother with a full race re-run when everyone will have a + box anyway?
 
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Just checked, the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup will have highlights shown on Motors TV this year.

Other than GP2, GP3 and the Porkers, all the other support races will be minor formula's or regional series' that we either wont get or have their own TV coverage.

I'm more interested in where they are going to show the rest of the Indycar races.
 
Wahoo EPG is up on digiguide.
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