Netflix & others to make bids for F1 TV rights in USA

[John S]

We in Britain have to contend with SKY TV F1 pay wall, is the same in the pipeline for our US friends?

https://www.pitpass.com/79497/Netflix-to-buy-F1-TV-rights-for-US

[lkjohnson1950]

I have been quite happy with F1TV. I hope if they sell the rights to a streamer they won't block it here.

[Dare]

I  have Netflix and in January they added something like
185,000 new subscribers and they thanked their current
customers by raising the monthly fee

[Jericoke]

I can't say how it works in the USA, but in Canada to watch F1 you need to pay for TSN (The Sports Network, co owned by ESPN and Bell Canada... yeah the legacy phone company) either through your cable TV subscription as premium channel, or as a streaming service at a higher cost than Netflix.

Since F1 racing is all I watched on TSN (hockey is on another premium cable channel), I pay for F1TV instead.  (Indycar is also on TSN, but I'm going to see if I can watch the Fox broadcasts in Canada)

[cosworth151]

I gave up on IMSA when it went to Peacock. I gave up on WEC when it went to all streaming. Why would I want to pay for reruns of a boatload of junk that I wouldn't watch when it was on free-to-air TV just to get a few races?

Starting this season, NASCAR will be scattered all over the place. 3 broadcast networks (NBC, CW, Fox) plus their streaming platforms, 1 cable outlet (TNT) and Amazon Prime. Goodby NASCAR.

Looks like I may go back to the old days of chasing bootleg feeds on Youtube.

[Dare]

I gave up on IMSA when it went to Peacock. I gave up on WEC when it went to all streaming. Why would I want to pay for reruns of a boatload of junk that I wouldn't watch when it was on free-to-air TV just to get a few races?

Starting this season, NASCAR will be scattered all over the place. 3 broadcast networks (NBC, CW, Fox) plus their streaming platforms, 1 cable outlet (TNT) and Amazon Prime. Goodby NASCAR.

Looks like I may go back to the old days of chasing bootleg feeds on Youtube.

After getting Windows 10 I couldn't find the old free sites we used to use
in chatroom.

I imagine if Netflix shows F1 live they'll have the same problems they
had in the live Mike Tyson fight. The only F1 races I watched last year
were the ones on US  over the air tv

[Andy B]

What about watching F1 on F1.com?
Is that streamed everywhere as we get it in NZ?