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Looks like Apple is trying to ride on the success of the film. If Apple gets the rights, wonder whether it will be available for free to all TV+ subscribers or whether it will be an add on subscription. Think it will be the latter.
Yeah, if what they did for MLS was any indication, it will most certainly be an add-on
 
Interesting. In the UK F1 is broadcast by Sky Sports unlike MLS, which I believe Apple own the sole rights to. It can’t be to long before Apple bid for Premier League soccer in the US.
I’ve always thought that tying MLS to the EPL was the move for MLS even if they don’t get as much money upfront for it. Having (for example) Rebecca and the lads on their EPL shoulder programming promoting soccer on tv the very same day as the EPL games can’t help but draw viewers in, IMO. Schedule an early MLS game and you could go all day:

730am (Eastern)

10am

1230pm

3pm (some eastern MLS game)

5:30pm

8pm

10:30 (some western MLS game)

Just bludgeon people with MLS until they cave. :p
 
i like it.

ESPN sucks because they air some on ESPN , some on ESPN+, and even some on ESPNU/News. All different subs/sub tiers.
 
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This would be great, assuming I don't have to add it on to my existing Apple TV+ subscription. But, even then it might be cheaper than paying for Hulu Live 🤔
 
I’m an old open cart car fan from the late 1990s 2000s. I know it’s different than F1. But I still enjoy this style of racing. Japan. F1 is popular. I’m happy to see this sport growing globally and if Apple can help promote it better than Disney And I have no issues about Apple own broadcasting rights. This is a good thing for the sport.
 
I subscribed to F1TV for this season because it supports 4K HDR on Apple TV and it looks really good.
I stopped subscribing to the American F1TV when my credit card information was stolen and yet I had only used it for F1TV at that point. Plus I wasn’t a fan of it being processed as a UK purchase which can trigger foreign transaction fees.
 
I saw some wild concepts (i dont know if they are actually implemented in the AVP) of Basketball, Racing and even Golf..(the most borning sport on the planet...watching and playing golf to me is like watching paint dry) though an Apple Vision Pro...with where the ball is, the various stats, etc...that be kinda cool, enough for me to want to try it out.
This is exactly the killer app that would’ve made the AVP a winner. And I believe any new model will struggle to gain meaningful traction until this milestone is reached.
 
It really doesn't, though. Street circuits are awful to watch at all levels of racing... drive a bit, 90 degree turn, drive a bit, hairpin, drive a bit, 90 degree turn, drive a bit, hairpin... and as a spectator, you're lucky to see 100 yards of track because of all the buildings in the way.

Baku is a good track and usually a good race. Monaco is horrible now though and frankly, Vegas and the Saudi GP isn't great either.
 
This is seriously fantastic. Apple has already shown F1 what they can do for the sport via technology. If you've watched F1, you've had your mind blown by the onboard cameras on the cars.

I hadn't watched Formula 1 for years and when I went back after watching F1, I was disappointed at the boring camera angles. They don't show the speed and intensity of a race. Build the whole broadcast around on-board cameras, switching between a POV from the driver and facing the driver, and include their on-board audio plus driver radios and you've got an exciting sport!
The tech can make it exciting, but unless you have a setup with some serious force feedback of some kind, and surround sound, I don't know how far that can go. I'd also suggest wide shots, and familiarity with the track coupled with really decent play by play. Let them guide viewer through a replay of a turn/event/pass, and give option to replay from any car you wish.

And... beware the loathed MLB situation. Most baseball fans cannot stand broadcasts taken away from their regular group in the booth. The best graphics and visuals, and worst of everything else.
 
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F1 is not owned by liberty media ! Liberty media owns the commercial rights …. The sport is covered by the FIA which covers many branches of motorsport ! You can’t buy the governing body the FIA. 😂
Commercial rights is all Apple - or anyone else - would need. When people write the short version, they say Liberty Media “owns” Formula One, just as Bernie Eccelstone did before them. Don’t be that pedantic guy.
 
i like it.

ESPN sucks because they air some on ESPN , some on ESPN+, and even some on ESPNU/News. All different subs/sub tiers.
And sometimes on ABC. That doesn’t bother me as much as the fact that ESPN really doesn’t ”get” F1 or auto racing in general. It’s clear they can’t wait to get out of the Sky coverage as quickly as they can and get back to stick-and-ball sports, even if it’s a lacrosse match recorded six months ago.
 
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Have you ever watched a Formula 1 race in your life? In fact, have you ever watched sport?
Yes, I have.
Can be entertaining, I still find pro sports a mostly disgusting phenomenon.
Your comment is exactly the absolutely empty "sports is fun because it's fun" kind of objection I expect from fans of sports.
 
Eh, there is a budget cap that means there isn't a "richer" team, and with the recent length increases driver height isn't an issue. Its something you could say in the 90s but now is just ignorant.

My favorite F1 was th era from the 60's and 70's; it was a very different sport back then; it's still fun to watch but very different. Interestingly, Cadillac is fielding a team next year.
 
Been an F1 fan for ~ 50 years now.. as an American back in th 70’s and 80’s it was nearly impossible to find/watch races, and with only VCR’s for some portion of that (which mostly flashed 12:00 on the clock!) it was nearly impossible to be a fan and not set the alarm at crazy hours to watch races.

FF to the 90’s when i was living in Germany and had. DF1 Box, which allowed me to choose from ~ 30 different cameras on cars and track and select one to I think six which I could have on the TV screen at the same time..it was great. Think NFL Sunday Ticket (another Sat provider who could offer more feature rich programming that traditional linear cable providers) but for F1.

Today, we get ONE channel (and that channel often moves without warning to ANOTHER useless channel like ESPU, ESPNDesportes, etc. at the last minute, without warning, often to a channel that a user doesn’t even RECEIVE and often after the main event but before the actual END of the event.. ESPN has been a crap provider IMHO.

If apple could bring it ALL together, offer some of the available enhanced functionality like being able to create an individuals interest in camera angles, match ups to watch, possibly some curated summary content and possibly some additional non racing content, I think that could be a win.

While larger than years past in the USA, It’s a small audience for sure..about 800k-1M viewers per race weekend (not sure if that is RACE only or cumulative across all events, practice, qualifying, race) so 150M, apple would be paying $150 to “acquire” viewers, and I think they would be hard pressed to getting enough users to migrate to ATV+ just for this.. they’d have to really think they could GROW viewership quite a bit to make the maths work out
 
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