Formula One Management
FOM leaves money on table in latest German deals
Formula One’s broadcast rights value in Germany will fall by about seven per cent when the latest renewals, agreed last week, kick in from 2016.
Bernie secures latest fee increase with free/pay rights split
Formula One Management earned a significant increase in the value of its rights in Australia last month by allowing a pay-television broadcaster to acquire rights to the championship for the first time in the country.
Australian F1 rights to adopt new model – reports
Pay-television operator Fox Sports is set to assume exclusive live rights to all races from the Formula One motor racing series in Australia from 2016, according to reports.
Watching Brief (Vol.92) Special Focus: Motor Racing – Formula One
Mike Kiernan, analyst for SportBusiness Intelligence, reviews television audiences across the big five markets for the recently concluded Formula One World Championship
F1’s social media platforms won’t show race action
Formula One Management (FOM), which operates the motor-racing series, will launch official channels on video-sharing service YouTube and social media website Facebook in the near future, but neither platform will show clips of races.
Fox Sports adds a zero to change Mediapro’s agenda
Spanish agency Mediapro will dilute the exclusivity of its new Formula One channel in Latin America with a sublicensing deal because it felt the offer from Fox Sports was too good to refuse.
Fox and Mediapro strike F1 rights deal in Latin America
Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports has agreed a sublicencing deal with Spanish agency Mediapro for the rights to the Formula One motor racing championship in Latin America.
Fox forced to double its fee in Asia to renew F1
Strong interest in Formula One rights across Asia from individual markets and on a pan-regional basis forced Fox International Channels to double its fee to hang on to its rights.
Fox Sports challenging Sport1 for Dutch F1 rights
Pay-television broadcaster Fox Sports is competing with rival operator Sport1, the current rights-holder to Formula One in the Netherlands, for the motor-racing series’ next cycle of media rights, according to De Telegraaf.
MTG pays small increase for ‘magnificent’ F1
Modern Times Group said this week that the emergence of Nordic drivers in Formula One was transforming the championship into a “magnificent” media rights property.
Constantin vows to pursue damages in F1 case
Media company Constantin Medien has confirmed it is pursuing a claim for damages against Bernie Ecclestone, despite having had its initial case against the Formula One Group chief executive rejected in the UK High Court earlier this year.
F1 taps into Canadian competition
Formula One has earned a significant increase in its rights value in Canada thanks to intense competition between pay-television broadcasters.
Formula One extends Canadian rights deal
Canadian pay-television sports broadcaster TSN and French-language sister network RDS have agreed a multi-year extension through to 2019 for their exclusive rights to the Formula One motor-racing championship.
ARD/ZDF eyeing up Formula One
New F1 bidders emerge in Germany
Latin America deal confirms trend of big increases with Asia set to follow
Formula One enjoys big rights fee increase in Latin America deal with Mediapro
Mediapro explains why F1 deal reflects the company’s DNA
Rights blitz gives Prisa a dilemma
Telefónica piles more pressure on Prisa with exclusive deals for Formula One and MotoGP in Spain
Gerard Romy, managing director, Mediapro
Interview with Gerard Romy, managing director of Mediapro, following the company’s Formula One rights deal in Central and South America, and the Caribbean
Why it’s good to lose 30m viewers in one season
Why it was OK for Formula One to lose 30m viewers in China