U.S. GP - FOX televison coverage

**schmenke** · 18th June 2007, 17:04

I was pleasantly surprised to see that the Speed T.V. gang (Varsha, Hobbs & Matchett) were providing commentary although that Derrick Daily fellow should keep his mouth shut to avoid further embarassement

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I was also disappointed at the number of commercials

What did everyone else in NA think about the television coverage?

**JasonD** · 18th June 2007, 17:16

It wasnt to bad, once I found it that is. I didnt expect FOX to be broadcasting it so I kept skipping that channel in the program guide.

Daily is a cast off from ChampCar, he isnt to bad generally and I did like him though I dont think he added much value to the broadcast. At one point he was going on about Hamilton swerving and blocking Alonso, the rest of the crew kinda went "huh?". I dont think he'll be back.

**tacksharp** · 18th June 2007, 17:21

Or rather, the local Fox affiliate sucks big time.

In the SF Bay Area the race was on TAPE DELAY, those bast@rds.

The main Fox affiliate Channel 2 wanted to show the Giants game because of what's his name's chase for some record, so initially the race was going to be shown live on another local Fox affiliate, Channel 36.

Then a day or two before the race the online guides showed that the race was back on Channel 2 at 2:00 pm local time, FOUR HOURS after the race really started.

Amazing that the USGP is the only F1 race I can't watch live on TV.

**schmenke** · 18th June 2007, 17:33

Originally Posted by JasonD

It wasnt to bad, once I found it that is. I didnt expect FOX to be broadcasting it so I kept skipping that channel in the program guide....

I was caught off guard too. The t.v. guide in my local newspaper indicated that Speed T.V. was airing the race live but when I turned the telly on they were showing a repeat of some NASCAR race

. I then flipped to our local sports channel, TSN, which usually carries the ITV feed but they were airing coverage of the US Open (nothing really wrong with that mind you

). So I missed the first few laps of the race by the time I realised that FOX was airing it

**Duralumin** · 18th June 2007, 18:01

Was I the only one that LOVED the fact that this is the first time in 12 years I've seen an F1 race in widescreen? Not true HD, but it was FAR FAR better than the usual 4:3 on Speed. THANK YOU FOX!!!

**Easy Drifter** · 18th June 2007, 19:06

Not sure if Fox was carrying it so taped hrs. of junk on TSN. Got TV guide in Sun. paper. Oh good, TSN are showing it at 12 30 am. Tune in at 12 20. TSN started coverage at 12 am. mutter mutter.
Watched it. At least Speed are doing a replay on Wed. and I will tape that. I do not like the TSN coverage with James Allen and Brundle. Yeah, owning your own business and working 7 days a week is great fun.

**luvracin** · 18th June 2007, 19:21

In Detroit, for the second race in a row the race was officially delayed until 4:30 pm due to the Tigers baseball game. But even then it didn't actually start until 45 minutes AFTER that because the game ran long. So even though the commentary team talked about the LIVE telecast, it was actually 5 hours delayed.

As this same thing happened to the Canadian GP telecast I'm a little frustrated.

Coverage itself was good seeing as it was the Speed Channel guys, Derek Daly is a waste of space - Blocking??? WTF??.

As someone else said, it's the local affiliates messing it up.

**tinchote** · 18th June 2007, 19:28

Originally Posted by JasonD

It wasnt to bad, once I found it that is. I didnt expect FOX to be broadcasting it so I kept skipping that channel in the program guide.

Daily is a cast off from ChampCar, he isnt to bad generally and I did like him though I dont think he added much value to the broadcast. At one point he was going on about Hamilton swerving and blocking Alonso, the rest of the crew kinda went "huh?". I dont think he'll be back.

This is the same guy who admires Senna, and who flew over most of the pack at St. Devote in 1980. You would have expected him to be more knowledgeable.

**trumperZ06** · 18th June 2007, 20:26

: Fox Sucked... way too many commercials, and that idiot Derrick Daly's interviews with the drivers his and comments added nothing to the broadcast. Didn't like him at ABC or CBS... now I remember why !!!

Thankfully, we had the Speed TV commentators covering the actual race.

**Wilderness** · 18th June 2007, 20:34

I did enjoy the post race conference, something we did not get for Canada.

I loved it when Varsha, Hobbs and Matchett shut blabber mouth Derek Daly up after he commented about Lewis' 'blatant' blocking of Alonso. Priceless.

Didn't get to see any of the commercials as I got to watch it later in the day. Did I get this right, did Speed offer the "Onboard Pass" free of charge half way through the race? It sure sounded that way (not that it would work for me, my satellite reception is like 5 plus seconds delayed).