MotoGP broadcast changes!!!!! LOOK!!!

[fastwin]

Heads up all you TIVO mutants out there!!!! SpeedTV WILL NOT be broadcasting all the MotoGPs this season! Here's the poop!


CBS will broadcast the following: Sachsenring, Germany July 13th @ 1-2pm ET, Laguna Seca July 20th @ 5-6pm ET and Brno, Czech Aug. 17th @ 2-3pm ET


NBC has the Indy MotoGP on Sept. 14th @ 3-4pm ET


As they say, times are subject to change... but I doubt it. Laguna has been on CBS for awhile but the rest is new. Hope they do a decent job. But it is nice that some suit somewhere said "hey, this stuff is good and it's got a worldwide audience!". It's about time. OK, back to your regularly scheduled programing.

[oaf]

Formula 1 started this a few years back with the Indy GP. Fox uses the Speed broadcast team. Sometimes they even screw up and say Speed instead of Fox. I'm not sure about MotoGP, since Speed seems to use the European English broadcast without their own people. At least it will be available in HD.

[never2loud]

THe totally cool thing about having races broadcast NOT on Speed Channel is that most of the major networks have an HD channel floating around so the races can be TIVO'd in hi-def    Caught the last F1 race that way - a bazillion times better than non-HD... 

Now all we need is theater surround sound (the neighbors only thought my bikes were loud  ).

[svoloch]

so, my only worry here is that it will mirror the world cup coverage that I had to mute to keep from vomiting, "now, bob, in soccer, which( for our viewers at home is DIFFERENT than football, even though those pesky eurpeans call it football ), there are not a lot of goals usually, and...  Ooh! That one guy did something cool...  What's it called when you kick it in from the corner?  Don't they usually throw those?"

[never2loud]

Forgot to TIVO the Germany/Spain game Sunday - sounds like I didn't miss much   

[♣ McKraut ♣]

i just love how make the beast with two backsing pumped they get about everything that happens...and the banter is awesome.

i am of course speaking of nascar commentators.

[Jester]

I don't like speed channel... but I do like the men on the microphone during the race.  To me, the Laguna race last year, broadcast by Americans was about the same as watching a Euro soccer match broadcast by Americans.  They seem lost and ignorant, going by stat sheets of paper, and commentating on something they don't really watch.  Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the impression they gave me.

[Desmostro]

I don't like speed channel... but I do like the men on the microphone during the race.  To me, the Laguna race last year, broadcast by Americans was about the same as watching a Euro soccer match broadcast by Americans.  They seem lost and ignorant, going by stat sheets of paper, and commentating on something they don't really watch.  Maybe I'm wrong, but that is the impression they gave me.

+ 11tyb    It's like they got flunky golf announcers:

"Boy look at them go. They look like they're trying real hard...[20 second silent pause] ok so the RED guy looks like he's going to pass the yellow - NOW TO COMMERCIAL -
"Ok, we're back. Wow everyone switched places while we were at commercial."

The best is when Hayden comes in 12th but he's the only one they interview after the race in the parking lot.

[2-Wheelin Hooligan]

Wow thankfully that was the one I didn't watch on TV.  I was there commenting to myself  .  But I don't understand why they change the announcers for the American GP's when they keep the same announcers in all the other races.  Is that America's decision or the MotoGP's?

[AndreRA3]

that would be the decision of the broadcasting channel, I think.