http://corporate.eur...detail/?id=4309
Eurosport has added another jewel to its growing portfolio of premium sports properties by securing the exclusive TV and digital rights to the FIA Formula One World Championship™ in Portugal from 2016 to 2018.
Probably about 3 people in this board will care, anyway it's nice to have F1 back to a non-pay channel 10 years later (last time was 2006 with public television channel RTP). Ever since it's been broadcasted by SportTV, at the extremely steep price of over 25€/month IIRC... (now of course, SportTV also broadcasts a lot of other things including the Champions League, the Portuguese football league, La Liga, Bundesliga, NBA, WRC, Indycar, Nascar, etc etc).
It will be interesting to see if the popularity of the sport picks up again as the majority of everyone I know stopped watching, also wonder what does this mean internationally as we were one of the first nations to move to PayTV, ever since this model seems to have spread to more and more places, rather weird that they're backtracking now. Might not mean much as SportTV have been losing content the last few years and might simply not have had the cash to renew, so this could be an isolated case rather than a trend other nations will follow.