If I remember correctly, next year there will be live tracking, a new website and a new app.
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If I remember correctly, next year there will be live tracking, a new website and a new app.
Sounds too good to be true!Quote:
Originally Posted by EightGear
Any news yet on whether the 2014 WRC will be on TV in the UK, and whether the live stage on a Sunday will be screened?
I believe live stage will be streamed for free on WRC.COM failing proper tv?
Meanwhile, according to Italian mag Rally Emotion, WRC will be aired for the first time on FOX Sports in Italy!
They asked Ciesla in Offenbach and he confirmed the deal (which looks a full premium package, with live broadcasts, daily highlights and event reviews)! Not bad at all, imho...
They talked about also free-to-air tv-rights sells, but I think only highlights...
http://www.rallyemotion.it/7942_wrc-cla ... i-tv-2014/
You've got to imagine/hope that with TWO Brits in top drives next season, getting a decent TV deal should be more easy than it has been for nearly 10 years! If Red Bull Media House don't capitalise on this situation in the UK next year, they'll have really missed a golden opportunity. My fear though is that these announcements have come too late for 2014, thus it'll be another year written off for the WRC in the UK, another year of obscurity...Quote:
Originally Posted by RS
(First post here by the way, so hello all. I've been visiting the site since I met Mintexmemory on Rally GB this year (coincidentally, twice) as he told me about this place, so hello again to him as well!)
Welcome, mate - glad you found your way here!
Surely we can have nightly WRC highlights on UK TV again, now that we'll have 2 British full-time drivers in the Championship.
Plus Wales Rally GB was a huge success in 2013 with great social media coverage indicating there is a mass audience out there...
Big UK TV news, BT sport is to show live stages and nightly highlights of the Monte as part of a new deal for the 2014 season. Im guessing highlights are still on ITV4?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112090
BT Sport are building up their sports portfolio, outbidding every other uk tv station for whatever they want. Expect the viewing figures to be below or similar to when wrc was on ESPN though.
Here in CZ the state TV bought rights to broadcast WRC including live coverage. All stuff will be also online on mediasport.cz including some onboards (not live though). It will be probably restricted to Czech IPs. It's definitely good for WRC promotion here.