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Originally Posted by David
I’m surprised about the ESPN complaints. Lights to checkered flag coverage without commercials! What else do you folks want? This is better coverage than we’ve had in my 40+ years as an f1 fan in the US!
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Agree that the wire to wire is likely the best we have ever had in the US.
However, there is no longer a dedicated post race show that contains interviews and analysis. NBCSN
always had a post race show that lasted between 30 minutes and an hour. I usually have to go online to find out WDC and Constructor's standings. I'm sure Sky shows it but it must occur after ESPN cuts the feed.
With ESPN we only get Sky's post race when the race ends before allotted 2 hours on the broadcast schedule. Ditto for quali. For some reason ESPN believes quali only last 1 hour, so they only allot an hour for it. Post quali we may not even get interviews with the top runners.
Also, ESPN never shows the interviews from the media pen. When was the last time you heard Alonso give an interview? It would have been nice to hear from Leclerc yesterday after storming back thru the field and being named driver of the day.
When ESPN took over broadcasting F1 a few years ago, it was an absolute travesty: Cutting to commercials during on track racing; ending broadcast when the winner crosses the finish line; and the worst being when in the first quali the entire broadcast was a camera showing nothing but an unused area of the track for an entire hour without any racing or commentary.
Thank goodness Mother's has helped out but ESPN has miles to go to do better. They don't seem to understand the audience nor the sport.
Here's another example of their incompetence: today on Day 1 of Wimbledon, they moved an in progress tennis match from ESPN to ESPN 2 because they were switching to the Euros. Novel idea: just show tennis on one channel and football on the other. It ain't that complicated.