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[riano]

anyone know if gp2 is live on UK tv or know of any streams to watch it online?thanks

[D.M.N.]

GP2 is live on Setanta Sports this season.

[riano]

cheers mate unfortunately thats the one sky channel i dont have

[dutra]

But only the european season, right? I don't think that there is a link to follow GP2 Asia live...

[Ross Stonefeld]

GP2 Main series is on Setanta? Because Asia is usually on Eurosport, though currently they're overwhelmed with Snooker, WRC, and WSBK.

[Madras]

Originally posted by D.M.N.
GP2 is live on Setanta Sports this season.

Yeah, and Setanta sucks.

[riano]

its a pity its on setanta, i always enjoyed watching it after the F1 qualifying and the porsche supercup on eurosport on sunday morning was always a good warm up for the grand prix..

[Jackman]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
GP2 Main series is on Setanta? Because Asia is usually on Eurosport, though currently they're overwhelmed with Snooker, WRC, and WSBK.

Yeah, deal is just done.

[D.M.N.]

GP2 Asia = Eurosport
GP2 = Shitanta Sports

[Ross Stonefeld]

(Do people get Setanta? I've never seen it)

[dutra]

EuroSport2 showing GP2 Asia rigth now.

[riano]

eurosport 2 in the uk is showing superbikes

[dutra]

http://pt-br.justin.tv/dimoni

[riano]

thanks very much man!

[fifi]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
(Do people get Setanta? I've never seen it)

virgin give it for free depending on the package your on, i would have it anyway for the scottish footie

[tahadar]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
(Do people get Setanta? I've never seen it)

nope! don't have it either on my Sky. what a waste, putting GP2 on setanta

[Rob29]

Yep-very dissapointing.Never been anything on Setanta that I was interested in since it started.Afraid Euro GP2 will not persuade me to subscribe-already paying Sky £46 per month

[MinT]

Originally posted by riano
cheers mate unfortunately thats the one sky channel i dont have

You and most people

[billm99uk]

Oh crap, I just cancelled my subscription

[stevvy1986]

Shitanta is ****, to all intents and purposes, and by the sounds of it they're screwed financially-sadly for them they seem to get the rights to things that basically no other channel wants (german football, blue square premier, scottish premier league, etc, and though they have some premiership games (going down from 46 games to 23 soon) and the fa cup and england games (fa cup match choice poor, nobody would want to watch boring england games anyway) nobody really wants the channel, its basically a very very cheap poor little brother compared to sky (who show genuinely good quality programmes with good pictures, good presenters for the various sports and are just better in every way)

[Madras]

They try to charge too much for ****, basically.

[FredF1]

Looking at their tv listings, they don't seem to be showing GP2 this year.


I have Setanta Ireland and they make no mention of GP2 at all.

[The July Plot]

They without a doubt have GP2, I was in the pub last night and saw many trailers for it on setanta.....the BBC really are arseholes for selling it onto a subscription channel.

[The July Plot]

Sorry for the double post..but does anyone have a link for the sprint race?

[dutra]

Same link I posted yesterday.

Go Diego!

[D.M.N.]

Sorry, but due to the IPL, GP2 for the first few weekends on Shitanta will not be shown live.

[Ross Stonefeld]

To the internet!

[stevvy1986]

i'm sure shitanta think that having GP2 and DTM will massively increase their subscriber numbers..........they're 1 of the worst channels to show it on (or to show anything on) and when they do, its not even live because of some cricket competition halfway round the world that has a small handful of england players playing

[wewantourdarbyback]

Originally posted by stevvy1986
blue square premier,

Yeah and the majority of us BSP fans with they **** off from ruining our game.

[dank]

Wonder who they'll get to commentate on it?

[D.M.N.]

Originally posted by dank
Wonder who they'll get to commentate on it?

The same guys who commentate on GP2 for Setanta Ireland I imagine: Quigley Kennedy and Garry Anderson

[andy-i]

Originally posted by stevvy1986
i'm sure shitanta think that having GP2 and DTM will massively increase their subscriber numbers..........they're 1 of the worst channels to show it on (or to show anything on) and when they do, its not even live because of some cricket competition halfway round the world that has a small handful of england players playing

I seriously doubt that. Motorsport outside of F1 wont draw subscribers in any numbers.

They are screwed from may 2010, when their EPL games are cut by half. they will probaly go under

[dutra]

In Brazil, this season will be broadcasted live once again by GloboSat channels SPORTV or SPORTV2, depending on the schedule of other events.

[stevvy1986]

sorry yes, what i meant was given some of the junk they have on there that they think will increase subscribers, they're probably stupid enough to think those 2 series will bring in more

[dank]

Originally posted by andy-i



I seriously doubt that. Motorsport outside of F1 wont draw subscribers in any numbers.

They are screwed from may 2010, when their EPL games are cut by half. they will probaly go under

At its height, GP2 on drew in crowds of about 80,000 last season. I can in some respects see why BBC would off load it, but reckon it would have been better off on Dave alongside their WRC coverage. But hey ho, I'll have to go trawling the Interweb to view the races this year.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Is that ITV4 figures? In other countries where it was much more closely snuggled to the F1 coverage it got some freakishly high viewing figures.

[D.M.N.]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
Is that ITV4 figures? In other countries where it was much more closely snuggled to the F1 coverage it got some freakishly high viewing figures.

Yes. To put into comparison, 250cc and 125cc on British Eurosport had higher than it.

[Ross Stonefeld]

So GP2 gets lower viewers on ITV4 than the Renault Clio Cup. That is staggering, but hysterical.

[dank]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
So GP2 gets lower viewers on ITV4 than the Renault Clio Cup. That is staggering, but hysterical.

And that was after ITV put some hefty advertisement into it as well. I blame Charlie Webster. Maybe.

[vmk]

somewhat off-topic but I did want to start a new gp2 thread just for this :

How come gp2 doesn't post the sporting/tech regulations on it's website like FIA does on their series? is it a secret?

[D.M.N.]

Originally posted by Ross Stonefeld
So GP2 gets lower viewers on ITV4 than the Renault Clio Cup. That is staggering, but hysterical.

Well:

2008 - ITV4 - GP2 Ratings
Race - Feature Rating - Sprint Rating - Combined Rating
Spain - 46,000 (0.6%) and 72,000 (1.15%) --> Total: 118,000 combined for each race
Turkey - 67,000 (1.22%) and 82,000 (1.58%) --> 149,000
Monaco - 87,000 (1.64%) and 138,000 (1.97%) --> 225,000
France - 117,000 (1.27%) and 64,000 (1.1%) --> 181,000
Britain - 72,000 (0.55%) and 93,000 (1.59%) --> 165,000
Germany - 140,000 (1.25%) and 126,000 (2.28%) --> 266,000
Hungary - 178,000 (2.45%) and 114,000 (2.08%) --> 292,000
Europe - 85,000 (1.02%) and 85,000 (1.2%) --> 170,000
Belgium - 93,000 (1.04%) and 79,000 (1.24%) --> 172,000
Italy - 104,000 (1.37%) and 79,000 (1.35%) --> 183,000
AVERAGE - 99,100 (1.24%) and 93,200 (1.55%)

2008 - ITV4 - BTCC Ratings
Round 1 - Brands Hatch - 230,000 (2.43%)
Round 2 - Rockingham - 162,000 (1.53%)
Round 3 - Donington Park - 142,000 (1.48%)
Round 4 - Thruxton - 128,000 (1.62%)
Round 5 - Croft - 182,000 (1.9%)
Round 6 - Snetterton - 112,000 (1.74%) and 135,000 (1.34%)
Round 7 - Oulton Park - 195,000 (3.48%) and 261,000 (2.75%)
Round 8 - Knockhill - 146,000 (1.36%)
Round 9 - Silverstone - 183,000 (1.79%)
Round 10 - Brands Hatch - 109,000 (1.37%)

[Ross Stonefeld]

Ahh I think I'm confusing my Live ITV4 numbers with my Highlighted ITV1 stuff.

[D.M.N.]

Just in case we need more confirmation:

MOTORING: GP2
On: Setanta Sports 2 (424)
Date: Saturday 9th May 2009 (starting in 8 days)
Time: 19:30 to 21:00 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

Series Racing.
Action from the main race of the GP2 Series opening round in Barcelona. Portuguese driver Alvaro Parente claimed victory here in 2008.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigigu...m/?p=1&r=129013

Copyright © GipsyMedia Limited.

MOTORING: GP2
On: Setanta Sports 1 (423)
Date: Sunday 10th May 2009 (starting in 8 days)
Time: 09:25 to 10:30 (1 hour and 5 minutes long)

Series Racing.
Live coverage of the sprint race of the GP2 Series opening round in Barcelona. Japan's Kamui Kobayashi took the honours in last year's race.
(Live)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigigu...m/?p=1&r=129013

Copyright © GipsyMedia Limited.

[stevvy1986]

Just in case we need more confirmation:

so hardly anyone will be able to watch it then-no doubt most races won't even be live anyway!there'd better be highlights on a channel that more than a few people can watch

[midgrid]

I haven't been able to watch any GP2 races since the series was moved off the terrestrial channels as I don't get good enough digital signal in my house - I hope that DVD season reviews will be released at some point, although I think it's unlikely to happen.

[Rob29]

And that was after ITV put some hefty advertisement into it as well. I blame Charlie Webster. Maybe.

Strange,I don't remember GP2 being on ITV.My record shows I watched it in Eurosport.Am thinking how to resolve this problem as S**anta also seem to have DTM which was on Motors TV last year.Will either be on international Eurosport? If so might be cheaper to get my analogue satellite fixed and maybe watch it in german.Othewise may have to cancel Skymovies and sign uo to setanta.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Strange,I don't remember GP2 being on ITV.My record shows I watched it in Eurosport.Am thinking how to resolve this problem as S**anta also seem to have DTM which was on Motors TV last year.Will either be on international Eurosport? If so might be cheaper to get my analogue satellite fixed and maybe watch it in german.Othewise may have to cancel Skymovies and sign uo to setanta.

GP2 was on ITV4 last year, only the Asian series has been on Eurosport since.

[dank]

At this rate, it's unlikely anyone will be able to even watch GP2 on Setanta, which according to reports today has a month to sort itself out.

http://www.guardian....ts-broadcasting

[brabhamBT19]

I beleive eurosport will be broadcasting

Do any of you know will eurosport also be broadcasting F2?

also why isnt LMS on MotorsTV any more?

Who will boradcast LeMans?

[vicksplum]

Sorry, but due to the IPL, GP2 for the first few weekends on Shitanta will not be shown live.

# 08:00 GP2 Series Racing
Action from the main race of the GP2 Series opening round in Barcelona. Portuguese driver Alvaro Parente claimed victory here in 2008
# 09:25 Live: GP2 Series Racing
Live coverage of the sprint race of the GP2 Series opening round in Barcelona. Japan's Kamui Kobayashi took the honours in last year's race

It is being shown live...

...might be the only one if the Guardian reports are true. Gutted because I love GP2 (and DTM) and from the looks of it I might have to miss both series.