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F1 on Eurosport!

Started by Ghostrider , Feb 06 2003 14:34

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#1 Ghostrider

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 14:34

Just read this at Eurosport site.
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French terrestrial channel TF1 will broadcast each Grand Prix live, while Eurosport will retransmit each practice, qualifying and warm-up session prior to the Grand Prix, which will incidentally be shown later in the day.
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Isn't this great news!!

Or have I misunderstood something?

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#2 K-One

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 14:38

Sounds good. Eurosport's F1-coverage was far the best with John Watson and Ben Edwards. I wonder who they got now...?

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#3 Ghostrider

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 14:42

It definitely solves my problem with finding a channel who sends friday-saturday practice!! Hope they send it live and not only short summaries in the evening. Good news nevertheless!! :up:

And every round as well, not only European races..excellent!

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#4 K-One

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 14:44

Originally posted by Ghostrider
It definitely solves my problem with finding a channel who sends friday-saturday practice!!

Try finnish MTV3...

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#5 jonpollak

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 14:54

hmmm
I went to each of their sites and NOTHING is mentioned
Here is theirMOTORSPORTS
Link ...

Do YOU have a link to what you read?

Please?

Jp

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#6 Viktor

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 14:55

Lets hope its on all of Eurosport and not just in France. Its strange that the news item is only on the frence section and not the other Eurosport sites. Im pesimistic but I hope its here also

EDIT: Eurosport has 3 divisions, UK, France and International, I suspect this is only for France.

/Viktor

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#7 Ghostrider

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 15:04

Unfortunately I think Viktor is right. :

Why can French Eurosport afford F1, but not English? It is a shame.

It was too good to be true anyway.

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#8 Oho

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 15:19

Originally posted by Ghostrider
Unfortunately I think Viktor is right. :

Why can French Eurosport afford F1, but not English? It is a shame.

It was too good to be true anyway.

Ave !!

In all likelihood its not primarily a matter of being able to afford or not, I'd rather think is exclusivity in the broadcast rights. The UK brodacaster has exclusive rights which it is not willing to relinquish.

- Oho -

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#9 batsnumbereleven

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 15:40

...and are Eurosport the primary or "host" broadcasters in France?

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#10 Viktor

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 15:44

Originally posted by batsnumbereleven
...and are Eurosport the primary or "host" broadcasters in France?

No, but Eurosport is owned by the primary host broadcaster in France

/Viktor

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#11 Clatter

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 15:52

Originally posted by Ghostrider
Just read this at Eurosport site.
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French terrestrial channel TF1 will broadcast each Grand Prix live, while Eurosport will retransmit each practice, qualifying and warm-up session prior to the Grand Prix, which will incidentally be shown later in the day.
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Isn't this great news!!

Or have I misunderstood something?

I would expect that this will only be avialable on analogue sat, and not digital.

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#12 batsnumbereleven

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 15:56

Originally posted by Viktor

No, but Eurosport is owned by the primary host broadcaster in France

/Viktor

I guess that explains how they can get away with it in France but not in the UK. In the UK, ITV are the host broadcaster, and as far as I am aware, they don't have any ownership of Eurosport!

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#13 lukywill

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 17:13

fantastic news :smoking:

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#14 batsnumbereleven

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 17:29

Originally posted by lukywill
fantastic news

.....if you live in France.

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#15 masterhit

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 18:01

Here is the link that confirms this post. It is in French. It is not on Eurosport's site yet.

Courtesy of Babelfish, a very poor translation, but nonetheless:

"TF1 and Eurosport obtained Wednesday the exclusiveness in the rights of diffusion of Formula 1 to the antenna. 'It is a good agreement which will enable us to provide better images than in previous years' the owner of the rights, Bernie Ecclestone, declared.

"TF1 will broadcast the GP live and Eurosport will retransmit the free practice, qualifying rounds and even the warm-up, a few hours before the race. Eurosport will repeat the Grand Prix in the evening. "

" 'Qualifying on Saturday will be broadcast at 14:00 and the remainder of the tests will be on Eurosport (subsidiary company of TF1 on cable and satellite) which will make a broad cover magazine of the weekend of race' confirmed Etienne Mougeotte, vice-president and general manager of TF1"

If somebody will help to translate this better, that would be great.

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#16 lukywill

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 20:15

Originally posted by batsnumbereleven

.....if you live in France.

well i live in lisbon, i hope this broadcast of eurosport is for everyone.
anyway i miss eurosport fine broacast with jonh watson before this bernie tv for one or two pay viewers

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#17 nigel red5

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 20:20

You boffins who sptted the TF1-Eurosport connection are spot-on! I`ve checked the French website, and the report is there. Then i checked the British Eurosport website and nothing.

It`ll be interesting to see if they will cover the Friday 2 hrs testing session :eek:

- i hope so certainly as it won`t need too much work for me to get French eurosport. :up:

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#18 BrundleBud

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Posted 06 February 2003 - 20:31

Originally posted by lukywill

well i live in lisbon, i hope this broadcast of eurosport is for everyone.

Originally posted by Viktor

Its strange that the news item is only on the frence section and not the other Eurosport sites. Im pesimistic but I hope its here also

Good luck

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#19 19krpm

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Posted 07 February 2003 - 10:10

If you have a stellite dish, try DSF. Last year they covered the friday practice sessions. Hopefully they will continue this year.

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#20 Ghostrider

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Posted 07 February 2003 - 10:17

Originally posted by 19krpm
If you have a stellite dish, try DSF. Last year they covered the friday practice sessions. Hopefully they will continue this year.

ZDF is pretty good as well. Or was at least last year.

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#21 19krpm

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Posted 07 February 2003 - 10:36

Originally posted by Ghostrider

ZDF is pretty good as well. Or was at least last year.

Don't know about ZDF, I think I watched the Monaco GP some years ago, but thats all.

From sport1.de

Die DSF-Sendezeiten der Formel-1-Saison 2003:

Freitag:
Freitags um 16.30 Uhr und um 20.00 Uhr zeigt das DSF das 1. Freie Training komplett.

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#22 Gambino

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Posted 07 February 2003 - 21:57

This is on the DSF website:

Die DSF-Sendezeiten der Formel-1-Saison 2003:

Freitag:
Freitags um 16.30 Uhr und um 20.00 Uhr zeigt das DSF das 1. Freie Training komplett.

Samstag:
Von 17.00 bis 18.00 Uhr: die Highlights des entscheidenden Qualifikationstrainings.

Sonntag:
Von 20.15 bis 21.15 Uhr: alle wichtigen Szenen des Rennens in der ausführlichen Zusammenfassung.

Dienstag:
Der Rennrückblick mit allen Höhepunkten, aktuellen Analysen und den kompletten Infos zum zurückliegenden GP-Wochenende.

My German is not so strong so I'm not going to translate this. But hopefully this is useful to somebody.

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#23 Gambino

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Posted 07 February 2003 - 22:04

Well heck, I give it a try.

Friday practice is shown complete on Friday afternoons at 16:30 and 20:00 CET.
On Saturdays between 17:00 and 18:00 CET there are highlights from qualifying.
Sundays from 20:15-21:15 CET race highlights will be shown.
Tuesdays: Race highlights and analyzes.

Please don't hesitate correcting any errors.

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#24 schuy

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Posted 08 February 2003 - 12:44

Ben Edwards is still in Eurosport.
Let's hope they allocate him to the F1 slot.

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#25 nigel red5

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Posted 08 February 2003 - 16:23

Does the report say whether French eurosport will broadcast the early Friday morning 2 hrs testing session? - it would make sense as Renault will be in the line-up....

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#26 Lipp

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Posted 08 February 2003 - 17:12

i just called the people of anal* the other day and they denied that F1 would be dropped in the Netherlands that is...

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#27 Viktor

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Posted 10 February 2003 - 16:54

Originally posted by nigel red5
Does the report say whether French eurosport will broadcast the early Friday morning 2 hrs testing session? - it would make sense as Renault will be in the line-up....

The tv schedule is up on Eurosports site now, F1 all the way for the lucky frog eating bastards ;);)
Eurosport TV Scedule

/Viktor

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#28 nigel red5

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Posted 10 February 2003 - 18:22

Thanks for that Viktor...

Hmm.....good and bad. So the first of the big 5 F1 tv companies (RTL, RTL5, P-world, FR Eurosport, ORF) have rolled out their launch schedule. Technically P-world in Germany released theirs a while ago, but because they "were" a bernievision channel then we won`t truly believe that one until it happens!.

French Eurosport have not got the Friday early morning 2 hrs testing session :down:

Damn, i was really hoping on them for that one, esp. with Renault in the line-up.

Friday morning 1 hr session for all teams, Friday 1 hr qual both live :up:

Sat morning (2 x 45mins) live and in the 30 mins gap they`ll show h-lights of Fri qual session :up:

Now, here`s the other bone of contention..... I`ve just heard this afternoon that there will definitely be a 15 mins "extra" session about 30 mins before the scheduled start of the Saturday qualifying session.......that is also missing from the Fr. Eurosport line-up, but that`s hardly surprising as that session has`nt even (to my knowledge) been officially announced yet! Probably they`ll show it.

Sat qual......is`nt so important as many other channels will show that anyway.

Sun warm-up 15 mins session to be shown live on Fr. Eurosport, again :up:

Race to be covered by everyone, so no problem there.

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#29 Gemini

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Posted 10 February 2003 - 18:24

Originally posted by Wolbo
F@ck

I just read that Canal+ will not be broadcasting F1 this year. There goes the Friday practise and a commercial free race.

I can only quote you... :mad: