33 replies to this topic

[Norm]

Hi all,

 

Is there any other English coverage of F1 besides Sky and BBC?

 

Thanks in adavance.

[pacificquay]

Why? Do you want to steal it?

[micktosin]

In before the lock  . Asking for illegal stream is against the rule of Autosport. Anyway, wait for my PM telling you off about how naughty you've been .  

[Norm]

I wasn't asking for an illegal link.

 

What I asked is, are there other f1 broadcasters in English other than Sky or BBC? Or do they own the English rights?

[pacificquay]

They own the UK rights

[dweller23]

Various broadcasters throughout the world that have English language use either Sky or BBC feed. Ireland, New Zealand, Canada as far as I know. Possibly South Africa too.

 

There's obviously NBC with their coverage in English, but I think that's about it.

[Laura23]

Short answer is no. The only way to watch F1 in the UK is either Sky or the BBC.

[The Passenger]

It appears Norm is in Canada.

 

If Wikipedia is correct, TSN are the only channel that broadcast F1 there.

 

http://en.wikipedia....ne_broadcasters

 

Don't have time to search whether they use BBC, Sky or their own commentators.

Edited by The Passenger, 13 March 2015 - 08:26.

[stewie]

A feed off a FTA european channel on satellite with Radio 5 live on in the background?

[Norm]

Yes, I am Canadian and TSN picks up the sky feed.  I will have a look at the NBC coverage.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

[jonpollak]

[Norm]

 

I'll pass, JP.

[tifosiMac]

I wasn't asking for an illegal link.

 

What I asked is, are there other f1 broadcasters in English other than Sky or BBC? Or do they own the English rights?

There are plenty of illegal streams out there mate with British coverage, not that I would recommend any here because its against the rules. Just ignore the people who get on their high horse about it lol. To answer your question though, no I do not know of any other British alternatives.

Edited by tifosiMac, 13 March 2015 - 11:38.

[as65p]

There are plenty of illegal streams out there mate with British coverage, not that I would recommend any here because its against the rules. Just ignore the people who get on their high horse about it lol. To answer your question though, no I do not know of any other British alternatives.

 

Those who paid Sky are usually quick to shout "burn the witch!" It just doesn't feel right for humans to see others get for free what they themselves had to pay for.

[superden]

Sadly, there isn't one.

Unless you count the BBC.












*chuckle*

[RV_Canada]

Yes, I am Canadian and TSN picks up the sky feed.  I will have a look at the NBC coverage.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

 

Actually TSN uses the BBC feed

[F1EC]

You can watch Sky via NowTV. A sports pass on NowTV costs £10.99 a week or £6.99 a day, but you'd need to do it over a VPN from Canada (which is also naughty, I guess). NowTV lags the live action by anything up to 2 minutes. 

 

If you watch NBC this weekend can you let us know what it's like? I'll be travelling in the USA during one of the GPs this year and I'm having nightmares about ad breaks. Hopefully it's not as bad as I'm expecting.  

[pdac]

You can watch Sky via NowTV. A sports pass on NowTV costs £10.99 a week or £6.99 a day, but you'd need to do it over a VPN from Canada (which is also naughty, I guess). NowTV lags the live action by anything up to 2 minutes. 

 

If you watch NBC this weekend can you let us know what it's like? I'll be travelling in the USA during one of the GPs this year and I'm having nightmares about ad breaks. Hopefully it's not as bad as I'm expecting.  

 

NowTV is Sky, though.

 

If you don't want to pay for a full Sky subscription, this is an option.

 

If you have problems with Sky, the company, NowTV is just another brand from that same company.

[Risil]

Listen to Radio 5 and we can try really hard to describe the pictures in the live forum

[jonpollak]

. Hopefully it's not as bad as I'm expecting.  

 

I am afraid it's even worse than what you expect.

It's a festival of adverts broken up by a few minutes of racing while listening to people shouting at you.

Jp

[F1EC]

I am afraid it's even worse than what you expect.

It's a festival of adverts broken up by a few minutes of racing while listening to people shouting at you.

Jp

 

Argh. Serves me right for travelling over a GP weekend. 

[Tsarwash]

A feed off a FTA european channel on satellite with Radio 5 live on in the background?

The ten second delay on video buggers that up. You hear about incidents long before you see them. 

[Risil]

The ten second delay on video buggers that up. You hear about incidents long before you see them. 

 

Gives you time to look at the screen.

[PlatenGlass]

I watched a race in a pub last year and I think it was NBC. Was that illegal?

[jonpollak]

Where were you?

[crooky369]

The ten second delay on video buggers that up. You hear about incidents long before you see them. 

 

There are programs you can play the radio feed through then set a delay on so you get matching sound and picture. I've done it a few times before for sportscar racing having Radio Le Mans for the sound instead of the US TV commentators. 

[Risil]

Can you give us the name of these programmes please? 

[F1McLarenFan]

1- Buy a starsports.com F1 pass for 500rupees ($8 for the whole season) https://www.tappp.com/user/index

2- Get an Indian VPN.

3 - Enjoy.

Edited by F1McLarenFan, 14 March 2015 - 10:46.

[crooky369]

Can you give us the name of these programmes please? 

I was hoping you wouldn't ask...!

 

Looks like I never reinstalled it when I started afresh on my laptop around a year ago. Sorry feel a bit of a berk for being unhelpful but basically you need a program that lets you put in the URL of the radio feed and also has a pause function. I'm sure if you have a look around you'll find something.

[PlatenGlass]

Where were you?

Sorry - UK (London)

[jonpollak]

If you were in Sorry-UK (London) It wasn't NBC

Jp

[PlatenGlass]

If you were in Sorry-UK (London) It wasn't NBC
Jp

Well it wasn't Sky or BBC. It was some American coverage, and I seem to remember it being NBC.

[August]

No British alternatives. Only Nigerian.

[RacingMonk]

Nigerian F1....mmmmmm.  That might give Bernie some ideas.