Posted in F1 News, McLaren, Media, tagged F1, Hamilton, McLaren on April 3, 2009 | 27 Comments »
Here’s a snapshot of the reaction from some of my international colleagues in the media.
First to Germany, where, true to form, leading tabloid Bild have making mischief with Photoshop again. Last week Hamilton was morphed onto a snail’s body, today he’s got Pinocchio’s nose and is described as the ‘lying world champion’ Ouch!
Next on to [...]
Posted in F1 News, Media, Personalities, tagged Ecclestone, F1 on March 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »
F1’s commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone isn’t here in Australia, he’s back in London doing deals.
One which broke cover this weekend was a deal he’s been working on for ages with Universal Music group, the biggest recorded music outfit in the world. They own dozens of the labels you grew up with like Polydor, Decca [...]
Posted in F1 News, Media, tagged F1, TV on March 19, 2009 | 24 Comments »
There was so much information being given out at the recent FOTA press conference in Geneva that the part about improving the TV coverage was largely overlooked by the media.
As it has subsequently turned out the FIA has not adopted the FOTA proposals on rules and cost savings and instead has very much gone it’s [...]
Posted in Hamilton, McLaren, Media, tagged F1, Lewis Hamilton on March 10, 2009 | 14 Comments »
If you liked that James Bond sequence where he drove the BMW Q had given him using by remote control using his phone, you’ll enjoy this wacky bit of video.
I remember a few years ago F1 engineers were talking about how it was possible for an F1 car to drive itself. Well take a look [...]
Posted in Discussion, Media, tagged BBC TV, F1 on February 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Following the news that Niall Sloane, executive producer of F1, has quit the BBC, I saw on the Guardian media website that the BBC has appointed Ben Gallop as head of F1.
I’ve asked around and apparently he comes from the online side of the media business rather than TV and has no F1 background. [...]
Posted in Media, tagged BBC, F1 on February 27, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I was sad to see in Charlie Sale’s column in the Daily Mail today that Niall Sloane, the executive producer of the BBC’s F1 coverage has quit. Sloane is a football man, a former player in fact, who took charge of the F1 brief when the BBC won back the rights last March. He [...]
Posted in Media, tagged BBC on February 25, 2009 | 10 Comments »
What will the BBC use as their theme tune? Well, in case you have been wondering about the trailer that Ben G was referring to in his earlier comment … Here it is: a YouTube mash-up that uses The Chain as inspiration. There are links to all sorts of would-be BBC [...]
Posted in Media, tagged BBC on February 25, 2009 | 27 Comments »
Interesting response to the BBC package announced yesterday. Quite a few people think “The Chain” is a retrograde step. Andrew Baker in the Telegraph is positively evangelistic about it, reckons it’s the greatest theme music ever in a proud BBC tradition of theme tunes. I quite liked the tune to Horse of the Year show, [...]
Posted in Discussion, Media, tagged F1, TV on January 29, 2009 | 28 Comments »
Yesterday I wrote about some things we will not be seeing on TV, today I’m posting on a couple of things which will be in the show, although I’m not sure about one of them.
Radio conversations between team and driver have been available for a few years, but the team had a button it needed [...]
Comment of the week…and some TV news
Posted in Discussion, Media, tagged Comment of the Week, TV on January 28, 2009 | 18 Comments »
As regulars here will know, I occasionally like to highlight a feedback comment and there’s one here from Rpaco, who clearly has worked in the car/racing industry at some point. His comment in response to my post yesterday about Charlie Whiting’s briefing really made me laugh.
“Well I trust that the new BBC team will keep [...]
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