Complain To FOX Sports About F1 Broadcast

In Los Angeles:
310.369.1000
310.369.6000

Lou D'Ermilio
SrVP Media Relations
212.556.2573
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FOX Sports
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Bldg 101
Los Angeles, Ca 90032

 

At least it was better than CBS or whoever those clowns were last year.

 

HAHAHAH, Like a dozen emails is going to change their ****ty programming! Fox has had piss poor programming for years, as long as it isn't Nascar, it will suck ball sack juice. lol

 

Classy.

 

You said it new best friend!

 

What exactly was wrong w/ it? It was the Speed team we all know and love.

Granted, the announcers did dumb it down a bit for newbies, but I saw no major problems with the broadcast..

Greg

 

Greg, there was no prerace discussion, and there was no post race interviews. I didn't mind the explanations for the new viewer, but I did mind the constant little commercials in the lower left screen. It was a bad broadcast.

 

All I can say is without live timing on f1.com I would have missed at least half of what's going on during the race.

As bad as the usual announcers may appear to be, every time they have gone to other announcers, it has been worse. uch worse.

Regardless, live timing is essential IMHO.

 

The commericals are there to get the small amount of viewers . Fox knows that not to many people watch F1 so the were trying to max. their commerical. After all its about money.

 

They only had 2 hours to fit everything in. I understood that going in.

I too was disappointed that they didn't have the pre-race Peter Windsor grid walk, and the other pre-race discussion. Also, no post-race interviews.

FOX is not a motorsports channel, so I wasn't shocked at any of this.

Actually, I think the FOX airing is a more positive thing than negative experience. It hopefully reached a larger audience, and with Hamilton winning, this history-making race made found a larger than usual USA viewing audience.

Greg

 

Hey, it's not all bad, I didn't hear the phrase "He just went purple" once! Adjusting for the newbies isn't all bad!

 

It was not that bad at all, cbs was horrible. do a mass email to all your buddy's and get the ratings up by a few million people and you will have better coverage. MUCH better then cbs, not as good as Speed - better then nothing.

Andrew

 

+1. Well put.

 

Speed coverage 1st
Fox a VERY distant 2nd
CBS DNF


AND PLEASE BROADCAST F1 IN HD!!!

NASCAR, NHRA, IRL, etc., etc., and many other forms of racing do. F1 is behind the times.

 

+1

+1 - It was actually listed as being in HD on my (Directv) guide - I was stoked - But it wasn't. [Same thing with that BS golf tourney that followed btw]

Not getting the post-race interviews *sucked*, but other than that I thought they did an OK job - Tried to "explain" for the newb's without getting "stupid" and even David Hobbs was on his best behavior......

I also thought they announced that Derek Daly would be on the team during Fri practice but he never showed up, which is no great loss of course

Cheers,
Ian

 

I'm here, at FOX Network News... Woodlands, Texas....

What is it you want me to tell them????? LOLOL!

 

I thought coverage in France was bad. But i really miss it now..

They really need to cut down on commercials.

 

I would of liked a little pre and post-race coverage, but it was the commercials every four laps that drove me nuts. At least go side-by-side like ESPN does with IRL so we can still see what's happening!

 

you forgot ITV. better than all listed.

 

The English broadcasts are really good too, ITV and EuroSport do a bang up job.

 

didnt they just skip the race during that tire fiasco 2 years ago and air some dumb **** program

 

fox will do a side by side thing for indi

 

To me, not covering the post race interviews was inexcusable especially given the historic aspect of Hamilton's win.

Jack

 

Anyone know how to get ITV coverage in the US?

 

I did write to Lou D'Ermilio to tell him how bad the Fox coverage was. His response is:



"Thanks for your note.

FOX's coverage was produced by SPEED Channel."