UK pay-television channel Sky Sports News will broadcast up to six days of coverage from each Formula One grand prix in 2012, the first year of parent company BSkyB’s first rights deal for the motor-racing championship. Sky Sports News is Sky’s 24-hour sports news channel.
Two reporters at each grand prix will provide on-site reports beginning each Tuesday and running through the week to post-race reaction. The channel will also report from the launches of the 2012 cars and driver line-ups throughout February.
Sky Sports News’s coverage will complement coverage on Sky Sports F1, the pay-television channel being launched by Sky in March specifically for the championship. It is Sky’s first channel dedicated to a single sport. The channel will show every race, qualifying session and practice session live.
Sky acquired the UK rights to Formula One from 2012 to 2018 in a joint deal with public-service broadcaster the BBC, which had previously held the exclusive rights.