without eurosport - how will the coverage change in your country?

mse · Nov 5, 2008

In Germany DSF holds the rights for the next 3 years

most likely we will see all trainings action live, but the european races from the 125er and 250er class will be most likely taped and aired after MotoGP Race .
This all just because of a horrible Football-Talk on Sunday from 11am to 1pm
and this Football-Talk is the most popular show on DSF, so they want cancell it because of 125er or 250er class.

rumours are saying Alex Hoffmann will the grid-guy for DSF!

how will the coverage change in your country?

babelfish · Nov 5, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AlexdeAngelis-Fan @ Nov 5 2008, 12:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>In Germany DSF holds the rights for the next 3 years

most likely we will see all trainings action live, but the european races from the 125er and 250er class will be most likely taped and aired after MotoGP Race .
This all just because of a horrible Football-Talk on Sunday from 11am to 1pm
and this Football-Talk is the most popular show on DSF, so they want cancell it because of 125er or 250er class.

rumours are saying Alex Hoffmann will the grid-guy for DSF!

how will the coverage change in your country?

In scandinavia Viasat captured the contract. That means only visasat customers with Viasats proprietary recivers, with propriatray scrambling and with their most expencive channel package will be able to view MotoGp. As they will send on a separate Motor sport channel most will be available, but the price will be steep. The anoying part is thing duopoly between Viasat and CanalDigital where they use different hardware as part of their marketing policy. I must change provider while still under contract, i.e. double up, and by new equipment and loose the ability to record this through my HTPC. I probably have to by a PVR reciver to get any recordings.

Double the price, less availability and more boxes around the TV. Thank god I just upgraded the HTPC

Wander · Nov 5, 2008

In Finland, we have a coverage with no qualifyings, but with live airs of all classes...

BEN · Nov 5, 2008

In Britain - we have the BBC - so that means we get a half assed show.

We get Charlie "I use the third armpit joke way too much" Cox

Steve "I used to race bikes, but really I'm pretty boring" Parrish

Suzy "I used to be fair fit, but now I'm getting on a bit and I love Colin & James lots n loads" Perry

And some dude who goes in the pits.

Anyone know how much effort is involved in setting up an online pirate broadcast?

Pigeon · Nov 5, 2008

as talked about on here in the UK the BBC got the contract for MOTOGP and F1 for 2009
most of the motogp stuff will be on the RED button Digital Tv
which you can access on a freeview box if you can get a signal £15 or so or you will get it on a ex sky digi box if you got one not sure what you can get on cable for free the main MOTOGP race is usually on main stream Tv BBC2

PS you got to pay the BBC £140 a year for a Tv license.been fined a few times for not having one
dont agree with it.but the fines have been a lot less than what i would have paid over the years for the license so ive saved money

SackWack · Nov 5, 2008

Coverage couldn't get any worse here in America. But I watched the live broadcasts on Eurosport from Justin tv so I will miss that.

gsfan · Nov 5, 2008

Zero coverage. SPEEDTV is available but I canceled the satellite because the channels have even more commercials than free tv and it is generally overpriced crap. So its streaming from Motogp.com if I want to watch live which I do. I won't be buying the winter package though. Too little testing and lousy reporting. 2 minute video clips...come on. I can get that on youtube.

Bikergirl · Nov 5, 2008

As far as I know coverage on Italia 1 remains unchanged for next year. It's free to air and they also have a great website on which races are available straight after the race (but only if you're actually in Italy). The crew travel around with the Motogp circus and set up a proper studio in the paddock at each track. All 3 races are aired (as well as Quali on Saturdays and a practice summary on late Friday night) and post race there is a discussion in the paddock studio with Italian riders turning up to chat and comment on their own race (Simoncelli was a regualr this year). Also Pasini, Graziano Rossi, Agostini, Carlo Pernat and a few others are regular guests in there. They tend to stay on air for about 1hr after the end of the Motogp race with their man on the ground catching up with the Motogp riders especially the Italian ones for their comments. Can't complain.

frosty58 · Nov 5, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Bikergirl @ Nov 5 2008, 03:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>As far as I know coverage on Italia 1 remains unchanged for next year. It's free to air and they also have a great website on which races are available straight after the race (but only if you're actually in Italy). The crew travel around with the Motogp circus and set up a proper studio in the paddock at each track. All 3 races are aired (as well as Quali on Saturdays and a practice summary on late Friday night) and post race there is a discussion in the paddock studio with Italian riders turning up to chat and comment on their own race (Simoncelli was a regualr this year). Also Pasini, Graziano Rossi, Agostini, Carlo Pernat and a few others are regular guests in there. They tend to stay on air for about 1hr after the end of the Motogp race with their man on the ground catching up with the Motogp riders especially the Italian ones for their comments. Can't complain.

Sally · Nov 6, 2008

Assuming it will be the same next year Cloggie telly RTL7 will give us live MotoGP quali (if it doesn't clash with F1 in which case F1 wins) and MotoGP race. Summaries of the 125 and 250 races will be shown as part of the 1hr preview show.

BTW MotoGP and F1 races haven't clashed once in the last two years as the FIA and FOM discuss their calendars with each other before finalising. Just so that you know people

. RTL 7 does a mixed pre-show if the MotoGP and F1 race are planned after each other (like this year's Sepang/Shanghai). Also most cloggies have access to BBC 1-2 (and often 3-4 on digital telly) but don't have access to the red button.

I will be signing up with motogp.com though (f-in .......s!) as I want to keep my coverage of the lower classes. I am just hoping they will sign up Jules and Toby as commentators to really make it worth my money.

125/250 race will sometimes clash which is a shame as those are usu the best of the day

Bikergirl · Nov 7, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sally @ Nov 6 2008, 05:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I will be signing up with motogp.com though (f-in .......s!) as I want to keep my coverage of the lower classes. I am just hoping they will sign up Jules and Toby as commentators to really make it worth my money.
Meh. Be warned it's probably going to be a waste of your money. And they have their own commentators

Sally · Nov 7, 2008

I would have been very hesistant but a number of peeps I know had to sign up for one reason or another in the past year and all said it wasn't nearly as problematic as it used to be. HD live feeds seem to work pretty much all the time and even LT was behaving.
I know they have their own commentators but Nick Harris is not annoying me on BBC and app. is not that bad as a com. Also heard that the 125/250 quali sessions are without commentating so that is not even such bad thing either.

Combine that with freaking fast internet on my part, a willingness to lose a weekend watching that whole video archive and I am willing to risk it.

Haga2 · Nov 7, 2008

I'm not putting up with the twats on BBC and their dire coverage. I'm probably going to order the motogp.com package.

Symon10 · Nov 9, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Wander @ Nov 5 2008, 07:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>In Finland, we have a coverage with no qualifyings, but with live airs of all classes...

It's not clear to me what is going to happen in Finland for 2009.

Viasat is available here, as babelfish stated using viasat boxes with expensive subscription and so on. Coverage of 2008 was on channel 4. As Wander mentions all races live.

The motogp press release did not mention Finland although it is part of scandinavia.

Lets see what happens, to me it looks like Dorna actually got rid of Eurosport, not to increase coverage of FTA channels, but infact to get more money! In Finland I'm sure both FTA channels 4 and Urheilukanava would love to show MotoGP in 2009. (Urheilukanava show Superbikes)

Funnily enough I for one may switch to Viasat if motogp is only available on Viasat as I am unhappy with the deception of the current satellite provider I use Canal Digital who are screwing their long time subscribers by switching to chipset pairing technology similar to the way Viasat restrict their customers. However at least they were honest from the start and not going to force current subscribers to buy a box when they have no need for one.

rmanda · Nov 10, 2008

I believe I'll have NOTHING

Is there some place where I can check which TV stations bought the rights?

Anders · Nov 10, 2008

I just found out,almost the only way for me in Sweden,northern europe is to watch it by the internet/broadband.Costs me about 13$ a month extra which isn't too bad but i hope the picturequality is OK.That's a bigger concern.
I live in an apartment with a bunch of senior citicens and fotball(soccer freaks)and we all get the same channels.So pretty soon i'll have to buy into something to watch WSBK and WSS too.But it's doable so...
There are others beeing worse off.

babelfish · Nov 11, 2008

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pirkkalan GP @ Nov 9 2008, 10:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Funnily enough I for one may switch to Viasat if motogp is only available on Viasat as I am unhappy with the deception of the current satellite provider I use Canal Digital who are screwing their long time subscribers by switching to chipset pairing technology similar to the way Viasat restrict their customers. However at least they were honest from the start and not going to force current subscribers to buy a box when they have no need for one.

CD and Viasat have pissed me off for years. Support, availability, program selection, prices, their duopol... everything about these companies piss me off, and now, with Dornas dirty trick it had finally made me searach up cardsharing possibilities and it looks like I can get a cheap "comercial" supplier or a free supplier out there and feed my HTPC with code keys for both CD and Viasat. That means full access to all their channels and recording possibilities with digital quality. So instead of paying 100's of € to the two companies each month I'll invest in a DVB card or two in addition to the one I have to supply the whole house with enough streams for anyone to watch or record what they want.

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