Hello All, This is my first thread and i only posted it because i couldn't find any info on who has the rights for next year. I've heard that Ten May have them but can't find any sources to confirm or deny these rumours.
Any info would be much appreciated.
Australian F1 TV Rights
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2_TON_TONY
, Nov 04 2002 00:48
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 00:51
TEN will get them, there's no doubt...
I reckon if you keep watching RPM you'll get an announcement soon.
Then again, RPM must soon be due for its summer break?
I reckon if you keep watching RPM you'll get an announcement soon.
Then again, RPM must soon be due for its summer break?
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 00:58
I'm hoping ten will get them, and lately i think they've been dropping hints with a lot more f1 news and interviews on RPM Sports Tonight and even on the evening news sports report.
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:09
Unless 10 show qualifying - I think we may be just as unhappy with 10's coverage as we were with Ch9's. Just a hunch.
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:16
The longer this drags on, the more likely I think channel 9 are of holding on to the rights. My hunch is with nine.
good to see you back Gerry!
good to see you back Gerry!
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 01:17
Qualifying will probably feature in Sports Tonight, I would think...
Or maybe as an addendum to this program?
Whichever way it goes, I believe they will show more than Channel 9 did, possibly with replays on the following Saturday as they have been doing with CART races. RPM will no doubt feature qualifying too...
Or maybe as an addendum to this program?
Whichever way it goes, I believe they will show more than Channel 9 did, possibly with replays on the following Saturday as they have been doing with CART races. RPM will no doubt feature qualifying too...
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 03:20
Where does this leave towns that dont get ch10? 
We have a ch9 affiliate station and a channel 7 station..
No f1?? oh no..
We have a ch9 affiliate station and a channel 7 station..
No f1?? oh no..
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 03:25
Originally posted by boost
Where does this leave towns that dont get ch10?
We have a ch9 affiliate station and a channel 7 station..
No f1?? oh no..
Where are you?
Can you get Impaja?
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 04:12
I don't think Nine will have the rights. All I have read plus that little tribute thing they had at the end of the Japanese GP proves it for me. IMO Ten will have the rights and hopefully they can do a deal with Fox Sports so they can show live races 
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 04:21
You can bet they won't come live... except Japan, perhaps, and the American events.
Sunday night movies will always take precedence, and I'd say that their late news and Sports Tonight will get priority too.
I'd doubt that they'd give Fox the rights to screen a race just two or three hours before they do...
Sunday night movies will always take precedence, and I'd say that their late news and Sports Tonight will get priority too.
I'd doubt that they'd give Fox the rights to screen a race just two or three hours before they do...
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 04:23
Originally posted by Ray Bell
You can bet they won't come live... except Japan, perhaps, and the American events.
Sunday night movies will always take precedence, and I'd say that their late news and Sports Tonight will get priority too.
I'd doubt that they'd give Fox the rights to screen a race just two or three hours before they do...
No doubt about that. Thats why we need Fox Sports to do a deal with TEN as they do with MotoGP and SBK
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 06:31
No word yet, but it is pretty much expected that Network 10 will secure the rights.
When word comes to hand, you can find out on www.f1fansvschannel9.com
regards,
doohanOK.
When word comes to hand, you can find out on www.f1fansvschannel9.com
regards,
doohanOK.
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 07:14
I dont understand why so many people want to see qualifying.
Theres no racing in the races, let alone the times sessions....
Theres no racing in the races, let alone the times sessions....
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 09:54
With the way quals are going to work next year i think they will be just as good if not better than most of the races we saw this year . So i for one would like to at least see more than the thirty seconds of quals we have been seeing for the last 12 or so years .More is better than less .It would just be nice to have the option , don't you agree ?Originally posted by Flying Panda
I dont understand why so many people want to see qualifying.
Theres no racing in the races, let alone the times sessions....
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 10:05
hmmmm, granted.
not like theres even anything good on free to air TV now anyways....
not like theres even anything good on free to air TV now anyways....
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 10:37
You're just hard to please...
But I think qualifying is a bit of a dead duck issue too. The drivers rarely make a mistake, the laps run off like clockwork, all is so precise... the only thing to watch for is the precision itself... and, of course, the clock at the bottom of the screen.
But I think qualifying is a bit of a dead duck issue too. The drivers rarely make a mistake, the laps run off like clockwork, all is so precise... the only thing to watch for is the precision itself... and, of course, the clock at the bottom of the screen.
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 11:15
qualifying is very important to the overall coverage of the weekend. I am one of the lucky few australians who can watch qualifying semi-regularly. Those who do not see it just wouldn't understand how different it is to watch (on the tv) the cars go around in circles on the absolute knife edge, compared to just prancing around lap after lap 1-3 seconds a lap slower than the cars can actually go. Sure you get to watch the Aus GP qualifying sessions, but one session a year isn't enough to drill it into your system that those guys are going as fast as they can in the most sophisticated automobiles that have been seen to date.
We all complain that the cars don't move around enough to satisfy the naked eye, yet in qualifying, the cars move so much that it's scary. And that's just the TV, imagine how good it would be to witness it first hand.
Sure, it's all about the race result, but it is a pleasure to watch the cars go around in circles on the absolute edge. We are car racing nuts afterall?
anyway, i'm resigned to the fact that we will never have live coverage of F1 GP's in this country because Foxtel, the only realistic cable sports channel capable of covering the races, is not willing to pay Bernie's exorbitant fee. And i don't blame them.
In the sport's current climate, bernie will find it very hard to renew TV broadcasting deals. We will be lucky to recieve any coverage at all.
If it's going to be Ten showing the races 4 days after their completion, well, if not for a certain pub in the city of melbourne, my interest would revert to nil. I'm a product of the television medium, race reports can't satisfy me as they would had i been born 20 or 30 years earlier than i was.
We all complain that the cars don't move around enough to satisfy the naked eye, yet in qualifying, the cars move so much that it's scary. And that's just the TV, imagine how good it would be to witness it first hand.
Sure, it's all about the race result, but it is a pleasure to watch the cars go around in circles on the absolute edge. We are car racing nuts afterall?
anyway, i'm resigned to the fact that we will never have live coverage of F1 GP's in this country because Foxtel, the only realistic cable sports channel capable of covering the races, is not willing to pay Bernie's exorbitant fee. And i don't blame them.
In the sport's current climate, bernie will find it very hard to renew TV broadcasting deals. We will be lucky to recieve any coverage at all.
If it's going to be Ten showing the races 4 days after their completion, well, if not for a certain pub in the city of melbourne, my interest would revert to nil. I'm a product of the television medium, race reports can't satisfy me as they would had i been born 20 or 30 years earlier than i was.
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Posted 04 November 2002 - 12:19
I don't think it's likely to be four days after the race at all... four hours at the most, I'd say.
Yeah, more Bernie problems rear their ugly heads.
Yeah, more Bernie problems rear their ugly heads.
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Posted 05 November 2002 - 01:31
im still slightly worried if 10 gets it that for tassie viewers and maybe NT viewers (do they have that wierd c7 & 10 hybrid thing aswell?) well get shafted just as bad, if not worse.
esp if ANYTHING has to do with 'sports tonight' which tas has never had......
esp if ANYTHING has to do with 'sports tonight' which tas has never had......
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Posted 05 November 2002 - 02:39
Originally posted by Nasty McBastard
im still slightly worried if 10 gets it that for tassie viewers and maybe NT viewers (do they have that wierd c7 & 10 hybrid thing aswell?) well get shafted just as bad, if not worse.
I think Alice Springs has Imparja and Darwin has merged Ch9/10 channel.
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Posted 05 November 2002 - 06:11
Ray,
I assume Witt is talking about this week's ridiculous placement of the broadcast of the CART race from Fontana (held early Monday morning Oz time) on late Thursday night/early Friday morning.
In fact, Witt's words are almost as if they came out of my mouth - Foxtel could possibly but won't (and I don't blame them) take up live broadcast rights, and that would only be the case if someone picks up the rights to show F1 to begin with - which to be honest, I am not 100% convinced will happen...
And this week's CART (and MotoGP) coverage should be a warning to anyone who think #10 is F1's saviour... thanks to daylight saving, for the sake of an hour or so the MotoGP broadcast was held over for a complete day...
I assume Witt is talking about this week's ridiculous placement of the broadcast of the CART race from Fontana (held early Monday morning Oz time) on late Thursday night/early Friday morning.
In fact, Witt's words are almost as if they came out of my mouth - Foxtel could possibly but won't (and I don't blame them) take up live broadcast rights, and that would only be the case if someone picks up the rights to show F1 to begin with - which to be honest, I am not 100% convinced will happen...
And this week's CART (and MotoGP) coverage should be a warning to anyone who think #10 is F1's saviour... thanks to daylight saving, for the sake of an hour or so the MotoGP broadcast was held over for a complete day...
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Posted 05 November 2002 - 10:07
Originally posted by Witt
If it's going to be Ten showing the races 4 days after their completion, well, if not for a certain pub in the city of melbourne, my interest would revert to nil. I'm a product of the television medium, race reports can't satisfy me as they would had i been born 20 or 30 years earlier than i was. [/B]
Which pub, Witt? Most pubs with Sky Channel seem to show dogs and horses. Is there one pub in particular that shows the F1 coverage?
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Posted 05 November 2002 - 10:48
Originally posted by Orac
Which pub, Witt? Most pubs with Sky Channel seem to show dogs and horses. Is there one pub in particular that shows the F1 coverage?
Charles Dicken's Tavern
290 Collins St, Melbourne
(near the corner of Collins and Elizabeth St)
It is not Sky but Star Sports via Hong Kong. And no, it is not available anywhere else in australia. (that anyone knows of).
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Posted 06 November 2002 - 00:39
melbourne is a bloody long way to go to see a gp on tv
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Posted 06 November 2002 - 01:46
Nasty,
It's ok to do that if you're watching the TV from the Fangio stand.
It's ok to do that if you're watching the TV from the Fangio stand.
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Posted 06 November 2002 - 03:41
Yep Nasty McBastard, Southern Cross what a fine channel 
. At least the hybrid cuts half the **** even if somethings get delayed due to overlaps.
(i.e the Saturday Indy 300 coverge on 10 was delayed till the evening so 7 could show the spring carnival)
But since 7 dumped the football we've been able to get RPM and the V8's on a Sunday afternoon as 10 only does Saturday football.
CART always gets run on a Tuesday night (except the Surfers race and Fontana), heres hoping that Southern Cross sees sense and runs the F1's at the same time as the rest of Aus.
. At least the hybrid cuts half the **** even if somethings get delayed due to overlaps. (i.e the Saturday Indy 300 coverge on 10 was delayed till the evening so 7 could show the spring carnival)
But since 7 dumped the football we've been able to get RPM and the V8's on a Sunday afternoon as 10 only does Saturday football.
CART always gets run on a Tuesday night (except the Surfers race and Fontana), heres hoping that Southern Cross sees sense and runs the F1's at the same time as the rest of Aus.
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Posted 06 November 2002 - 05:26
Originally posted by Orac
Which pub, Witt? Most pubs with Sky Channel seem to show dogs and horses. Is there one pub in particular that shows the F1 coverage?
Clubs seem to be okay...
I was working in Wagga the weekend of the AGP... went to one of the clubs there and had the room virtually to myself to watch the race on the big screen.
Weekend of the Japan GP was also Bathurst weekend, I was working in Orange, finished work about 3pm Sunday and went to a club, there was a screen on one side of a pillar showing Bathurst, on the other side was Japan... wandered backwards and forwards and watched them both...
But I do appreciate the fact that usually they are fixated on the grub sports...
