Any news on NBC Sports plan for F1 coverage?

According to the above article the entire team will be on site for Monaco, Canada, and Austin. More than SPEED ever did. Perhaps with good reaction and fan base growth throughout the year they will travel more in following years.

So far NBC is off to a pretty good start.

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just found out NBC sports channel is a separate package on DISH... I didn't even know I couldn't get their programing... that's how much of interest their programing has been to me...I thought I have a main stream sports package... it allowed me to watch all that was of interest to me... need to look into what's up... 300 channels of programming and no nbc sports... need to see if I can trade 49 foreign language channels, 31 infomercial shopping channels for a channel that carries F1.... at least with SPEED I got to see F1 and don't need to add 34 channels that I won't watch...

 

You didn't watch the Olympics?

 

I have dish tv, what channel is the race on? If I need a special package what is it?

 

Just depends on the tv deal I guess.

Back when I had comcast I would have had to do the same thing to get speed.

 

%##aaargh***!!!!!!!!

If this is an indication of things to come we're all screwed in the US:

Tonight NBC sports had a 30 minutes F1 season preview on the program but because some other sport run long they just cancelled it.

 

Step away from the window


This show is being rerun often enough that canceling one airing may not be indicative.

 

I had to google the info.... DISH showed 2 channels 159 and a 4 digit 9466 (??? )

I guess nbc sports is not main stream enough... Leno has been making jokes about nbc viewership rankings are out ouf the top tiers... this just confirms it

funny, I get all the other major sports cable channels

 

They've run that show a bunch of times so far. Stick it on your DVR schedule and you're golden

 

NBC Sports is the old "Versus" (formerly OLN) channel. The same channel that carries Indycar (other than the ABC races).

NBC Sports finally posted their motorsports TV schedule:
NBC Sports Group F1, IndyCar coverage for 2013 - Motor sports- NBC Sports

This only shows the coverage on NBC Sports.
(On the second page, they omit the Indycar races that air on ABC. You have to get those from Indycar's web page.)

It looks like we only get practice 1 for Melborne. The rest of the season, we just get P2 and qualifying, like Speed had.
I guess the other sessions are via their online streaming (using Silverlight, so Linux people are not invited).
(I tried the open source moonlight, but the web page objected to my browser before even getting to the feed.)


On Dish, there are two channel 159s on the program guide: the HD feed and the SD feed.

So the "recording preference HD/SD" tab on the DVR part is grayed out, as it defaults from which channel 159 you picked from the guide.
I suppose if you manually programmed the timer by entering the channel number, you'd use the "recording preference" to tell it which feed to record.
I usually DVR the SD feed, as the HD feed takes six times the disk space.
(And it all goes to my old svideo fed CRT monitor anyway.)

9466 would be the channel off the alternate satellite (if you have a 3 bird HD dish with the 3 LNB horns).
All current Dish hardware is HD oriented, but with SD capability.

I DVR'd last Thursday's feed, and got 12 minutes of UMASS vs Baylor (who?) BBall and the first 20 min of the preview.

They seem more oriented towards trying to introduce their college audience to "this F1 thang", then trying to introduce themselves to the existing F1 fans.
And, yes, the ads are all "Money!, Sex!, Royalty!, F1"

So: the preview means we're likely to get the same flack the Indycar fans have had: Set your DVRs to run 60-90 minutes over, and keep the re-air times handy.

What we saw on Indycar was that races than ran long got booted off ABC and finished on "ESPN3".
Does any cable system actually carry ESPN3? Dish doesn't.

But that's ABC ("ESPN on ABC"). The network F1 races will be NBC.
But they're going to have schedule priority issues, too.

Bottom line is that F1 is not going to be the top priority for a US network.


I'm just hoping that NBC Sports will use the "side by side" feature that Versus used on Indycar coverage, for F1 broadcasts.
(That feature put the race in a small window to the side during commercials, so you didn't miss any of the KV racing crashes. )

What used to infuriate me about Speed's F1 coverage is that they went to commercial just in time to miss anything significant ... like pit stops.

Indycar coverage put special emphasis on covering pit stops.
But that was when the channel was "Versus", before it became NBC Sports.

 

Channel 220 on direct tv. Took me quite a while to find where the telecast would be seen.
Really a poor job of promoting F-1 and the telecasting location and times.

Will miss Bob Varsha, Speed had a great team and will be sorely missed.

But all said, Lets go racing!!

 

Anyone know if they're going to handle the ads the way they do with Indy races?
(PIP)

 

I have no idea but that's an excellent question. That would be an amazing addition. I always enjoyed that aspect of watching Indy on VS.

 

+1

Doesn't someone here have a contact inside NBCS? Maybe "we" could ask 'em and even start a petition somewhere?

I agree, it certainly makes the interminable breaks a little more palatable.

Cheers,
Ian

 

I had Dish for a few years. DirecTV is 10 times better.

 

For Melbourne I am showing Practice 1 (tape delay) and Practice 2 (LIVE) immediately after. Check your guide again to make sure.

 

After giving it more thought.
IIRC The commercial PIP during the Indy broadcast is "sponsored" by the show's sponsor (Firestone?).
If there isn't a series sponsor for F1 its unlikely to carry over.

 

NBC should sponsor it then.

 

Intriguing business plan you've got there.

 

Thanks.

My utter disappointment wasn't so much about the lost show but the non chalant approach NBC Sports took in cancelling: "Oops, we're out of time, oh well, we just skip the F1 show."

I can see that pattern easily repeated when it comes to qualifying or the races themselves.

I have memories of Speed TV delaying live F1 qualifying because some pickup truck was doing lonely laps at an oval somewhere.

 

Lets hope they see canceling a live broadcast different from cutting a rerun.

Fingers crossed.

 

I guess you don't watch much live sport? Baseball, NFL, NHRA, NBA (particularly), they *all* run "late". Generally the reason the live event is followed by "high school football from BFN!"......

The first time they aired the "season preview" (thanks D ) it started late - NCAAB was live - No big deal. Live shows should always take precedence IMO....

"This is why we watch"

Cheers,
Ian

 

Just to be clear: The live sports broadcast didn't squeeze out the F1 report. It merely delayed it. All subsequent shows got delayed by like half an hour. So any number of shows could have been cancelled, yet they chose the F1 report.

And they didn't even bother announcing that. They just did it and went from one canned show to another.

But I suppose some pawn shop guys peddling a motorcycle at an auction is more relevant to a sports network than a F1 report in the very week the season begins...

 

Have you let them know how you feel?
Sometimes they listen.