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[billindenver]

Let me count the ways.

1. Formula One broadcast at 3pm Mountain time..quite a while after the race is finished and I have to avoid this forum like the plague until the day is over...
2. Announcers, who should always be saying Formula One on Speed...forced to say Formula One on Fox...but it's the same guys...WTF?
3. Bob Varsha announcing upcoming baseball games is just wrong...it's wrong I tell you
4. Ok, who is the moron who brought the same voice over guy the movie 300 to do the intro for the Formula One race? It's a race, not a damn World Wrestling event!
5. It's a tradition...Orange Juice and Jamaican Rum for breakfast while I watch F1 on Tivo. Orange Juice and Rum in the afternoon isn't the same thing dammit.
6. When I wake up on Sunday morning of an F1 weekend, I like to see the orange light on my directv letting me know someone is racing at that moment and I'm recording it.
7. HOW THE HELL do you watch an entire race and then not watch the top three climb from their cars? Why not show that?!?
8. HOW THE HELL do you watch the entire race and not watch the entire podium celebration? WHAT is more important? A COMMERCIAL?!?
9. WHO THE F*** doesn't watch the entire interview after the race? WHICH American dips**t decided to only broadcast HALF of the winning driver interview and NONE of the 2nd and 3rd place interviews? For the love of all things holy, someone fire Fox and never let them broadcast another real race again. Let them stick to Nascrap or whatever it is they usually broadcast and keep the the hell away from Formula one. It is insulting to me, as an American, to see such ignorance displayed by a broadcast station in my country. This is F1 for christ's sake...not some damn round track with rednecks wearing cowboy hats declaring they are racing their tractors in a circle. We want to hear from the winners, we want to see them climb out of their cars and celebrate with their teams, we want to see them standing on the podium and we want to hear EVERYTHING they way to Peter Windsor. God DAMMIT!

Sorry for the rant...it really p****s me off having to wait all day for the race to be broadcast only to have it done in such a half baked manner. F*** Fox...I'm moving to England.

[EwanM]

Yeah "come on over to #our place"

[Rivelution]

Welcome to the club Bill. We have been hating on Fox since I can remember being on here, and it really does suck. I'm glad they keep the same commentators though, unlike they do for the US motogo races.

[The-Stig]

Its Fox what the hell do you expect. All Fox does is s*** all over everything.

[digitaleye]

Why do you guys torture yourselves? Just download the race and you'll live happily ever after! BBC gives an hour of pre-race, the race, post-race, press conference and for this race they even had a 45 min post, post race show to get extra interviews due to the nature of the race. Why suffer with crappy coverage?

[bud]

well dont be rash, move to Australia!! our coverage is damn good now with the new channel oneHD showing it live and having an hour preview show! infact because Webber won they are replaying the race tomorrow night!!

[Rivelution]

I would love to move to Australia. If there were no United States, I would be living in Australia.

[EwanM]

Ok maybe in Australia you have the weather and the women and the kangaroos and well everything that appears better than sitting here on this gloomy day.

But in the UK we have the best F1 coverage and it's free (unlike Germany where you have to pay)

[scotty]

well dont be rash, move to Australia!! our coverage is damn good now with the new channel oneHD showing it live and having an hour preview show! infact because Webber won they are replaying the race tomorrow night!!

Do you guys still use the British commentary feed?

[The-Stig]

Ok maybe in Australia you have the weather and the women and the kangaroos and well everything that appears better than sitting here on this gloomy day.

But in the UK we have the best F1 coverage and it's free (unlike Germany where you have to pay)

F1 is free in Australia. The race is live on Ten HD after a 45 min pre-race show. we even get the BBC commentators.

[RA Dunk]

But in the UK we have the best F1 coverage and it's free (unlike Germany where you have to pay)

Really? i didnt know the Germans had to pay for it, it`s only a matter of time before it`s the same here i suppose, mind you we already pay £100 for a TV livense so i suppose thats the same thing

[EwanM]

Yeah, they get it free the Germans but its riddled with tons of Ad breaks and that.
Or you can pay the Premiere channel and get what we get in the UK.

[Amanda]

They cut out the podium Blimey, I thought the adverts on ITV were annoying but if they'd tried to pull that kind of I'd have gone berserk.

[billindenver]

They cut out the podium Blimey, I thought the adverts on ITV were annoying but if they'd tried to pull that kind of I'd have gone berserk.

The loss of the podium is annoying, the loss of the guys climbing from the cars is annoying but when they cut the winner's interview halfway through and don't show any of the other two's interviews....that is beyond ridiculous.

[EwanM]

Still...

Rupert still owns the media's bottom.