But I'm marching at 0900. I'll be wasted by lunchtime.

Where's the coffee?

Are there revival stalls in Sydney along the highway? free teaand coffee haha.

It's ANZAC Day. I'll need more than tea & coffee to revive me after hoovering about 50 beers.

Give Daz a break, maybe he was always that boring, but remember he did have a very bad head injury from a crash, maybe it's my imagination but he always seemed to talk slower after that

Wow.... awesome qualifying covergae by ONE 15 mins late coming on. Missed chunks of qualy one and 2. No press conference. Surely they could have delayed the cricket a few extra minutes?? I mean its friggin after midnight anyway when they finished the f1 coverage. Its hardly primetime. Maybe im pissed about webber, but f'kin hell.

And the IPL match they were going to show was delayed by rain anyway...

I came home from a wedding to see the last 8 mins of Q3 which was great and then they went to a break saying they would be back to wrap things up - then they just never came back - bizarre!! But not surprising

Let's see how many times Rust rattles off the phrase "Australia's Mark Webber" tonight... I'm guessing 7.

I think by now everyone knows he's Australian and that we won't be confusing Mark with all the other Webbers on the grid.

Would make a great drinking game - 'Australia's Mark Webber'... scull!

You'd get pretty pissed I reckon...

and now they say they are going to show the highlights of practice and qualifying.
are they feeling guilty about something.

just give it to Fox Bernie!

after watching Motogp all afternoon and Superbikes a little while ago.

either give it to fox, or lets pay for it. as long as we get it!


jesus, now OneHD are showing highlights of the 1939 tripoli race. who gives a *&^%.

Fox won't get it if Ten doesn't want to share it as long as the anti-siphoning law is still in place.

They only showed that for a few moments. We all know when the start of the race is going to be so if you don't want to watch the pre-race stuff then skip it.

If I have got something better to watch I wouldn't bother tuning in till 10pm.

Wasnt that McGee?

Beattie lost his toes on his left foot....which probably also explains his lack of personality, as most people have more in their little toe.

i had to watch the replay on ten last night as i was working on a uni essay and noticed they just replay the one live broadcast, rather than editing the coverage around the ad breaks so that you see every lap. cheeky!

?

the coverage on normal ten is 'delayed' (not replay) of the one HD coverage. You think there gonna have a whole second editing team there to re-cut their coverage? especially when its only 1 hour delayed?

Found this little article on mediaspy. I've emphasised the F1 coverage-relevant bit at the bottom. Good news indeed!

there you go: nearly a quarter of a million aussies, presumably mostly A-B quintile, watching F1 live. that figure may drop a smidgin now that we're in the european timezone but it still proves that what most of us thought was a blatantly obviously strong business model actually works. that's probably the best news ten has received in quite a while! and it's also terrific that you won't have to shell out for HD on fox to get one: i don't have to p*** the missus off by watching the race on the digital TV in the bedroom!



i'm not sure my initial post was strong enough to warrant the tone of your response ('cheeky' is hardly a grave insult) but let me explain. ten used to pacify us by showing every minute of the race, which included those awkward minutes when the aussie boys would have to cover for the ITV ad breaks. i thought perhaps that now with the BBC coverage and no gap in commentary, ten could continue the practice - but given how much better the overall situation is now, i really don't mind ... and i totally accept your point about the extra editing work.

[pedantic mode] isn't it fair to say that ten 'replays' one's coverage? a 'delayed telecast' suggests it hasn't been shown live elsewhere IMHO [/pedant]

[pedantic mode]I think it should actually be called SDD (Same Day Delayed) coverage[pedantic mode]

Good news on the ONE ratings!

Will that simulcast transmission on Foxtel be carried over for Austar subscribers too?

[pedantic mode]you didn't close off pedantic mode![/pedantic]

dammit!

If any Aussies have broadband and are having difficulties with getting anything they want to watch, apart from the other streaming sites, may I suggest JustinTV.com you should find several channels at the time of the event and will be able to choose the best speed connection to you by just trying them out.

Some of the feeds are really decent quality too. I am in Southern California at the moment and use JustinTV when I can't get it on SpeedTV. I have a 3Mbit connection any it works a treat, I must say though the biggest difference I have noticed with the Internet connections here vs Australia is the backhaul is not a factor so 3Mbit seems fast enough for most anything.

If anyone does use JustinTV on a higher sync speed I would be interested to know their experience with it. Anywhoo just another option and its one I recommend having used most of the others.

IF anyone would like dedicated access to the BBC broadcast - please PM me. This weekend is already "fully subscribed", unfortunately. But access can be provided for the rest of the season.

I thought ESPN were showing the Indy 500? I am checking the guys now and i thought it would be on ESPN and ONEHD, it was on both last year wasnt it? I cant see it on any channels Pay TV or FTA at the moment. Am i going crazy?

I believe it was on Ch10 last year yes. Although my memory is a bit fuzzy.

No, for several reasons.

1) its only foxtel cable customers at this stage. Foxtel satellite customers will have to wait until a new satellite is launched at the end of the year
2) Its foxtel, not austar
3) austar have absolutely no interest in giving their customers anything decent, like One, so I'd expect hell to freeze over and pigs to fly before austar gets one.

I think that was a highlights package shown a few weeks after the fact. Ten will probably show a last minute replay if Briscoe or Power wins.

Those turkeys finally figure out that a sport that attracted over 150,000 attendences for a single event annually in Melbourne would actually get some decent viewership if they show it live, rather than 11:30pm on Sunday night?

ok, false alarm... Infy 500 is being shown on ESPN. 3am to 6:30am.

Still surprised that none of the FTA stations arent showing it as well.

Yeah it's totally absurd that no FTA network is showing Indy this year. Particularly Ten/One. Ten persisted showing the Indy 500 all those years, with NO Aussie drivers competing. Now with a DEDICATED SPORTS CHANNEL, not to mention TWO Aussie drivers racing this year, BOTH DRIVING FOR THE BEST TEAM IN THE HISTORY OF INDY, logically you would think Ten/One would be all over this event.

Sorry about all the shouting, but to me this is just wreaks of indecision gone mad. At least we will be spared from Rusty constantly updating us on the progress of "Australia's" drivers...

has anyone got any other streaming links for fp2.
the usual one conked out for fp1.
send to

kathelaptop2@bigpond.com

am on another screen for tonite.

no, it wreaks of Foxtel not letting anyone else touch it this time around!

How's internet coverage for IRL in general? Live timing/commentary etc? I assume there'll be a link to watch on justintv somewhere. If the other info is available I might just get up and watch it on the net. No Canadian GP this year so I can use one of my annual 3am wake up calls for Indy!

No-one seems to have mentioned it, but I just noticed that Monaco qualifying looks like it will be live on One HD. Telecast scheduled to start 8:55pm Sat evening until 11:15pm, and with qualifying on from 10-11, then looks like we've got it!!

Just checked ten website. not on melbourne until 11. only sydney birsbane live. Ten are trying to look after Ivo! 

ahem. So it seems ONEHD are doing something right for a change? LIVE qualifying from Monaco, 9.55pm - 11.15pm. Looks as though we will get the post quali press conference too, and then the normal cam and rusty garbage no one listens to anyway. But FINALLY we are getting a quali session LIVE that isn't the aus gp. YIEW!

Bloody Aussie Rules....

i just checked my iq 2 and it says the coverage is starting at 8.55? this must be incorrect, or that means there's a full hour pre qualifying show on aswell as qualifying, highly doubt that would be happening?

They broadcast NBA basketball in Sydney and Brisbane, but Netball in all the other cities. Which runs longer. And delays the F1.

What the ****.

http://ten.com.au/tvguide_search.html

im still confused at the foxtel thing, it stioll says 8.55

well, a disappointing result but a wonderful experience in getting quali live! with this weather, they'll probably get good ratings too...

Edit.

Both proxies are now full.
Apologies to those who missed out - I'll add you to the waiting list for the British GP onwards.

one hd has turkey quali starting at 8.55 and race coverage at 9.50 (AEST)

Good news for you guys in capital cities - looks like coverage has improved greatly.
Us poor country folk just need SC10 to pull their finger out...some time prior to Bahrain would be nice.

Once again it's only for Brisbane/Sydney. Melbourne through Perth has 2 hour delays ...

Melbourne delayed?...it had the highest viewership for Monaco!!!! AFL?

I repeat...

AFL I can understand because there is a potentially big audience for it and One as a sports channel has to eventually pay for itself to be viable.

Stuff like squeezing Quali in in between IPL is freaking ridiculous.

Anyway Q is being shown at 10:30pm in Melbourne - half an hour behind live. Race is still live of course.

I understand why AFL gets preference, I just don't like it...

and I'm away this weekend so won't be able to watch it live anyway...

F1 - bumped by a sport where the most intelligent thing on the field is the valve that keeps the air in the ball.

Tragic.