Have they changed how highlights are provided to channel 4?
The entire race seems to be condensed down to about 30 minutes. Has it always been like that?
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From BBC article ahead of the seasonSky has imposed a series of restrictions on C4 in the contract for the highlights races, which will affect both the race coverage itself, and what happens around it.
For example, only 50% of the total running time of C4's programme can now be taken up by the on-track coverage - down from between 60-70% last year. They are not allowed to do interviews in what is known as the 'pen' - where all the drivers are taken to do a round-robin of broadcasters after qualifying and race - or in the pit lane. Any 'pen' interviews they use will have to come from Sky. The amount of interviews C4 can do in the paddock is restricted. And they have been forbidden from doing a 'grid walk'.
None of these restrictions apply to the live British Grand Prix.
In addition, the highlights programmes can now not start until a minimum of three hours after the race, although this could be a blessing in disguise as it pushes them into evening prime time, when audiences are potentially bigger.
jjn9128 wrote: ↑29 Apr 2019, 22:38The deal is different and more restrictive.
From BBC article ahead of the seasonSky has imposed a series of restrictions on C4 in the contract for the highlights races, which will affect both the race coverage itself, and what happens around it.
For example, only 50% of the total running time of C4's programme can now be taken up by the on-track coverage - down from between 60-70% last year. They are not allowed to do interviews in what is known as the 'pen' - where all the drivers are taken to do a round-robin of broadcasters after qualifying and race - or in the pit lane. Any 'pen' interviews they use will have to come from Sky. The amount of interviews C4 can do in the paddock is restricted. And they have been forbidden from doing a 'grid walk'.
None of these restrictions apply to the live British Grand Prix.
In addition, the highlights programmes can now not start until a minimum of three hours after the race, although this could be a blessing in disguise as it pushes them into evening prime time, when audiences are potentially bigger.
From Sky's point of view it makes sense to restrict the FTA to the absolute limit because the highlights still get the majority of legal viewers in the UK. It's a legacy of Ecclestone's short sighted deals which are hampering everything Liberty are trying to achieve.Maplesoup wrote: ↑30 Apr 2019, 08:52Such a shame that this happened. The channel 4 coverage was always better than they sky coverage. The grid walk on sky is always just terrible. The technical and race coverage isn't much better either. On channel 4 I could watch all 3 days of coverage quite happily, I can't do that with sky because they just regurgitate the same content every day I just turn on for the race now. The commentating is awful as well.
Bring back the Channel 4 coverage and ditch sky!
I agree.Maplesoup wrote: ↑30 Apr 2019, 08:52jjn9128 wrote: ↑29 Apr 2019, 22:38The deal is different and more restrictive.
From BBC article ahead of the seasonSky has imposed a series of restrictions on C4 in the contract for the highlights races, which will affect both the race coverage itself, and what happens around it.
For example, only 50% of the total running time of C4's programme can now be taken up by the on-track coverage - down from between 60-70% last year. They are not allowed to do interviews in what is known as the 'pen' - where all the drivers are taken to do a round-robin of broadcasters after qualifying and race - or in the pit lane. Any 'pen' interviews they use will have to come from Sky. The amount of interviews C4 can do in the paddock is restricted. And they have been forbidden from doing a 'grid walk'.
None of these restrictions apply to the live British Grand Prix.
In addition, the highlights programmes can now not start until a minimum of three hours after the race, although this could be a blessing in disguise as it pushes them into evening prime time, when audiences are potentially bigger.
Such a shame that this happened. The channel 4 coverage was always better than they sky coverage. The grid walk on sky is always just terrible. The technical and race coverage isn't much better either. On channel 4 I could watch all 3 days of coverage quite happily, I can't do that with sky because they just regurgitate the same content every day I just turn on for the race now. The commentating is awful as well.
Bring back the Channel 4 coverage and ditch sky!
By the time Sky's deal is up for renewal, no one in the UK will care about F1 except the few die-hard fans. No more new fans will be introduced to the sport unless they happen to be a child of the diminishing number of people watching it on Sky.
).I've been watching F1 since the 80s when my dad would turn on the race, coverage such as it was back then, and we'd watch it during our Sunday lunch. I still remember Mansell's tyre failure that robbed him of the title in 86, for example, watched as a full race replay.hemichromis wrote: ↑30 Apr 2019, 11:38I considered myself a big fan of F1 but this might be my last year after 8 years.
I expect I won't be alone.
If you can dial into SRF2 (Swiss) or ORF1 (Austria), you can get the broadcast without the millions of ads on RTL.R_Redding wrote: ↑30 Apr 2019, 12:13I used to watch the BBC coverage, until they said they could no longer justify £45 million for 5years. (then gave Somali radio £90 million from the licence fee
Watched C4... Now watch the German RTE satellite coverage while listening to BBC radio . I will never be a sky customer. If RTE loses its coverage,It'll radio or nothing. I would pay for the FIAs online coverage (as buggy as it is),but sky will not allow that option in the UK.
