Future Rally Media Coverage

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Originally Posted by rallyfiend

There's an interesting article in The Times of London today saying that the Manufacturers, the Teams and associated stakeholders are vehemently opposed the any deal with Eurosport. This they feel will permanently relegate it to subscription TV across most of the world. The loss of a potential ITV4 deal being an example I gues of what will likely happen across many territories in the World.
Why would any terrestrial broadcaster buy something that is already on Eurosport that also covers their territory.

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Didn't you just ask and answer the question?

I really don't see a problem here. If we take a country where Eurosport is free-to-air, then it is free. If Eurosport is on pay tv, then a free to air broadcaster may still be interested.

This still has to be progress over what we had last year. Even the Rally GB powerstage got significantly less viewers in the UK than the Cyprus live Eurosport coverage last year.

People asking about WRC.COM, this site was owned and run by the previous rightsholders who had their contract terminated, therefore it is pretty unlikely you will see anything new on there. But there is no reason to panic, live times will be available online, rally radio will hopefully still be there...

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Originally Posted by Langdale Forest

Why had wrc.com stopped updating news?

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Because the company that ran it went bust.

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Originally Posted by Langdale Forest

The WRC is in a crisis now, with no TV coverage on the main channels in the UK, and there is no new updates on wrc.com.

It is going to be very hard to find results.

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Results maybe like in the old days, after the weekend in a newspaper. :D

There will be media people who directly interact with their website via all the modern features.

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Originally Posted by RS

Didn't you just ask and answer the question?

I really don't see a problem here. If we take a country where Eurosport is free-to-air, then it is free. If Eurosport is on pay tv, then a free to air broadcaster may still be interested.

This still has to be progress over what we had last year. Even the Rally GB powerstage got significantly less viewers in the UK than the Cyprus live Eurosport coverage last year.

People asking about WRC.COM, this site was owned and run by the previous rightsholders who had their contract terminated, therefore it is pretty unlikely you will see anything new on there. But there is no reason to panic, live times will be available online, rally radio will hopefully still be there...

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Yes, but is it a good thing for our sport for it to be broadcast solely on a sports channel (a pan-European one) rather than on individual channels in each territory?
Or more precisely, to go backwards to that position.
It can quickly become the sort of sport whereby you can find it if you know where it is, but are unlikely to stumble on it and find new fans.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Because the company that ran it went bust.

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could we assume the same for GPweek also?

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Originally Posted by Francis44

Last night I saw Eurosport advertising their Monte Carlo coverage, begins Wednesday at 23.00.

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Originally Posted by Motorsportfun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv-eVhHQlUg

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:D

was the advert on Eurosport UK? I can't find it in the schedule yet.

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Originally Posted by whereschris

was the advert on Eurosport UK? I can't find it in the schedule yet.

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It is there, I programmed it into my Sky Box this morning. Starting 10pm Wednesday.

That was yesterday on Eurosport International... sry for the vid, it's done with my camera :D

Full Eurosport International list (British Eurosport same according to Digiguide)

Times in GMT

Wednesday 22.00
Thursday 23.00
Friday 22.00
Saturday 23.00
Sunday 23.00

All 30 minutes.