FIA Formula 1 2022: Mexico F1 GP Practice 1 - Broadcast 1
In 2011, Sky Sports signed a seven-year deal with the BBC (who had already had broadcasting rights for several years), to show live Formula One on Sky in the United Kingdom for the first time. The deal which ran between 2012 and 2015 saw Sky Sports show live coverage of every session of the season on their own F1 dedicated channel, Sky Sports F1.[3] Sky Sports F1 show all races and qualifying sessions live without the interruption of adverts.[4] In 2016, Sky extended their contract to 2024, and will be the exclusive live rights holders in the UK and Ireland from 2019; the British Grand Prix and highlights of all other races will be shown free-to-air, on a channel which has "90% technical availability".[5] At the same time it was announced that Sky will broadcast all events in ultra-high-definition (UHD) from 2017. Sky Sports F1 have broadcast every practice, qualifying and race since 2017 in 4K Ultra-HD, exclusively for Sky Q 2TB customers.
FIA Formula 1 2022: Mexico F1 GP Practice 1 - Broadcast 1
BBC. Following the commencement of their deal with Sky, the BBC continued to broadcast live coverage of half the races and all 20 races had "extended highlights". In 2012, they broadcast live coverage from China, Spain, Monaco, Europe (Valencia), Britain, Belgium, Singapore, Korea, Abu Dhabi and Brazil.[6] They also showed live coverage of practice and qualifying sessions from those races.[7] The deal set that the British Grand Prix and the final race had to be shown live on the BBC.
On 14 October 2012, NBC Sports signed a four-year deal to broadcast Formula One races in the United States. The majority of its coverage (including most races, and all practice/qualifying sessions) was broadcast by the pay channel NBCSN (with CNBC as an overflow channel), while four races were aired by the free-to-air NBC network per-season. The network also streamed additional camera feeds through its digital platforms.
In Hungary, the commentator is Zoltán Szujó, who had been previously pit reporter between 2002 and 2012. The colour commentator is the former Seat Leon Eurocup Champion and the former chief-editor of F1 Racing Hungary, Gábor Wéber. The studio analysts are the two-time FIA European Truck Racing Championship champion, Norbert Kiss, the two-time WTCC Yokohama Driver's Trophy winner and WTCR champion, Norbert Michelisz, and the current TCR Europe, former WTCC driver, Dániel Nagy. The pit reporters are (in changing each other) Róbert Bobák, Máté Ujvári and Ádám Szeleczki. The translator of the after-quali and after-race interviews is Lőrinc Pattantyűs-Ábrahám. The presenter is Andrea Petrovics-Mérei. From 2019 Spanish Grand Prix, Szujó left/was fired from M4 Sport channel, he was replaced on the race by Máté Ujvári. From the Monaco Grand Prix, Wéber taking the role of main commentator, Norbert Kiss and Norbert Michelisz, and Dániel Nagy are the colour commentators (in charge). The pit reporters also will taking part in broadcasting of the practices. The first Hungarian commentators were Sándor Dávid and Jenő Knézy. At one time Andrew Frankl also participated in the broadcasts. The most famous Hungarian commentator was László Palik, who commented the races between 1990 (French Grand Prix) and 2010 (British Grand Prix), who had a unique commenting style with emotions in exciting situations, also with funny moments, mistakes, but also teased his colleague, Gyula Czollner. Their couple was the most famous and notorious in the history of F1 broadcasting in Hungary.
Since 2015 Formula One in Russia is broadcast on Match TV and Match! Arena including free practices. Vladimir Bashmakov comments on free practices and Alexey Popov along with Natalya Fabrichnova comment on qualifying sessions and races. Their contracts were terminated ahead of the 2022 season as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Sky Sports F1 is the primary English-language broadcaster within the UK. David Croft commentates with Martin Brundle with various pundits occasionally filling in for Brundle. Depending on the race, one of Ted Kravitz or Karun Chandhok contributes from the pit lane. For practice sessions, Croft is often joined by Anthony Davidson, Damon Hill or Chandhok with Brundle providing trackside analysis. For Free Practice 1 Rachel Brookes takes over as lead commentator. Simon Lazenby hosts the coverage with Hill, Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button, along with Brundle, Davidson and Chandhok are the analysts, with Natalie Pinkham, Rachel Brookes and Craig Slater, as relief presenters and reporters who conduct interviews on the broadcast. As of 2023 Johnny Herbert and Paul di Resta no longer work for Sky Sports F1.
American fans subscribing to ESPN will be able to watch every F1 race weekend live. The practice and qualifying sessions will be available on ESPN2. The Grand Prix race will be beamed on the ESPN channel. ABC has chosen to broadcast the American and Mexican Grands Prix free of cost on its channel. Those outside the US can watch F1 using VPN. 041b061a72