WRC moves to Motors TV

[Juha_Koo]

What does concern me is them trying to market this through the addition of increased onboard material. To me the one thing the WRC footage doesn't need is more onboards.

W-w-wwhat? Why?

[Josti]

W-w-wwhat? Why?

As Simmi said, they should put more camera's on the stages, rather than inside the car (let alone they tried every onboard angle already there). It's pretty obvious the general excitement of rallying comes from the outside view, not the inside.

About Motors TV, it's sad I don't have it, but to be honest the Eurosport coverage was too short, not that good and not very punctual as many already said. The absolute downfall for me was at the Rally GB coverage, when they decided it was more important to show a Harry Potter movie star, rather than following a rally car coming by. That was embarrising.

[Simmi]

W-w-wwhat? Why?

While I respect your opinion, I personally am tired of the onboards. They aren't even of a good quality these days.

I fear the coverage will be "now lets ride onboard with Seb, looking at the back of his seats".

Or "now lets watch Mikko for the next 2K's, only we will just look at his facial expressions, then cut to his feet."

The more I think about it the more negative I feel. It's hard to look at anything the ISC do with much optimism.

Long added: "There's no way we can put all of the on-board footage into our international programme - a programme with broader appeal for those fans who want a 365-degree perspective on the sport – but Motors will certainly be making use of all the on-boards."

So reading between the lines this is him saying:
"OK we now have an hour to fill. We wont actually do any work to improve our product or add new features. But at least we can now use all those onboard shots we normally leave on the cutting room floor. I'm sure we can probably pad out the time without actually working too hard, or using a single creative braincell."

[hari]

According to this article Eurosport keeps on showing daily highlights.
http://www.rallye-magazin.de/r/wm/d/...wrc/index.html

Sorry, but this article says nothing about the future of Eurosport broadcasting.

[Rallyper]

I´d say that one camera in each of the 5-10 first car live the whole time of every leg would be great. I could pay a few bucks every time just being able to watch live inside Sebs car through out a competition!!

[SubaruNorway]

Looks like nothing on Eurosport

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80179

[General Prim]

What? No one in Spain has any idea about this station or where to find. At least Eurosport is easy to connect even without paying just listening in German.
If anybody in Spain must pay even 0.1 cent ISC will loose one of the TWO spectators yet watching WRC on television (the only one remaining will be Sordo's father), so boring is

ISC want really to promote WRC????. Not in this way. Give me back Montecarlo, Safari and Corsica, PLEASE.

[Simmi]

Has this whole thing actually been confirmed as Europe-wide? Or just UK?

[Rally Power]

Motors TV is a Eurosport owned channel

Where did you get that info?

[Mirek]

Dont panic, Motors TV is a Eurosport owned channel, maybe WRC doesnt get delayed because of some ball sport or running and jumping type sports.

Are You sure?

List of Eurosport Events brands: http://www.eurosportcorporate.com/index.php?target=8