06-05-2024, 03:23 AM
I don’t think Australia’s ever had their own commentary, and they presumably wouldn’t see it as a ‘foreign sport’.
I think the point is if ESPN put together a team, it would be full of British voices and most of the leading voices are already working for Sky or Channel 4. So they’d be offering a worse version of the same thing that wouldn’t be very much more American apart from the branding. Let’s face it all the American broadcasters that show British football/European football (EPL + CL etc) are still using all British talent but that’s harder to replicate with F1 because the talent pool is much smaller.
I guess once F1 themselves offer world feed programming that’s on a par with Sky, they could then at least get something that’s not branded with a foreign broadcaster and presumably they could produce bits just for ESPN.
I think the point is if ESPN put together a team, it would be full of British voices and most of the leading voices are already working for Sky or Channel 4. So they’d be offering a worse version of the same thing that wouldn’t be very much more American apart from the branding. Let’s face it all the American broadcasters that show British football/European football (EPL + CL etc) are still using all British talent but that’s harder to replicate with F1 because the talent pool is much smaller.
I guess once F1 themselves offer world feed programming that’s on a par with Sky, they could then at least get something that’s not branded with a foreign broadcaster and presumably they could produce bits just for ESPN.