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Austrian public-service broadcaster ORF has secured a three-season extension to its rights deal for the Formula One championship.

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Motorsport satellite TV schedule

Live Formula1 races coulddisappear complete fromtheBBC after the public broadcaster has announced further cost cuts.

The corporation will set out plans to cut £150 million from the corporation’s budget, including around £30 million a year from its spending on sports rights, and F1, snooker and darts are in the firing line.

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UK Pay-TV broadcaster has made a deal and become the exclusive Formula 1 rights holder in the United Kingdom and Ireland from 2019. The deal will run for six years, through to 2024. 

Formula 1 satellite TV schedule

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Formula 1 (F1) - Free Satellite TV Channels

F1 2019 is just around the corner, but what can we expect from the new season as Lewis Hamilton searches for his sixth world title? Formula One (F1) is the highest class of single-seat auto racing that is sanctioned by (FIA). The FIA Formula One World Championship has been the premier form of racing since the inaugural season in 1950.

Formula 1 had a total global television audience of 490 million people during the course of the 2018 season, what is a global growth of 39% compared to 2017.

Despite a huge move of Formula TV rights on pay-TV, there are a lot of FTA (free-to-air) satellite broadcasters having Formula 1 live TV rights or even highlights.

Vettel vs Hamilton or Verstappen vs Leclerc

Lewis Hamilton will be favourite for the Formula One world title again this season. Despite Ferrari producing much more competitive F1 cars in the past two years, Sebastian Vettel suffered two heavy defeats against Lewis Hamilton in the drivers' championship, while the Scuderia has not succeeded in ending Mercedes' streak of constructors' titles.

Yet Vettel's Ferrari team have emerged from Formula One's winter hibernation boasting the fastest car. Charles Leclerc will partner Vettel at Ferrari this year and is fancied to put the heat on his teammate. Leclerc says he has not set any “particular target” for his race debut with the team at the Australian Grand Prix. The 21-year-old Monegasque has moved to partner Sebastian Vettel in Ferrari’s revised driver line-up for the upcoming campaign after his impressive rookie season with Sauber in 2018. Vettel should be kept on his toes by Leclerc but is expected to restore his reputation while Max Verstappen will have his hands full with Pierre Gasly at Red Bull.

Formula One UK TV rights

Sky Sports F1 have the lion’s share of live coverage in the Formula 1 2019 season after the broadcaster signed an exclusive deal to F1’s live TV rights in the UK. Channel 4 (DVB-T Free in UK, DVB-S FTA on Astra 28.2°E) will showing highlights of all the Qualifying and Formula 1 races this year, along with the British GP at Silverstone in full. NOW TV has just released a special F1 Season Ticket that gives you access to all nine months of the F1 season for a reduced overall price. The F1 Season Ticket for NOW TV will cost you a single £195 payment for the entire season.

F1 remains on free-to-air TV in Germany

German broadcaster RTL will have the exclusive free-to-air rights to cover Formula 1 Grands Prix from 2018 to 2020. The agreement includes the coverage of the three free practice sessions on Fridays and Saturdays, qualifying sessions on Saturday afternoons and races on Sundays.

RTL has covered Formula 1 live in Germany since the middle of the 1991 season. RTL Germany is available via different satellites, but it is only free-to-air via Astra 19.2° satellite position.

After a one-year break, pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland will show the Formula 1 again in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The new agreement covers the 2019 and 2020 seasons across all race weekends. Customers with the Sky Q box can watch all races live in Ultra HD on Sky Sport UHD. The rights package includes the live broadcasting rights via satellite, cable, IPTV, streaming and mobile TV in Germany and Austria as well as the German-language rights in Switzerland.

Formula One free satellite TV broadcasters

Some countries have formula one free on their terrestrial, cable or stream channels. In this table we have provided only satellite FTA (free-to-air) channels with broadcasting details.

• Albania (RTSH Sport - All races)
• Australia (Network Ten – Australian GP only)
• Austria (RTL / ORF – All races)
• Brazil (Globo – All races)
• China (CCTV-5 – All races)
• Germany (RTL - All races)
• Russia (Match TV – All races)
• Slovenia (TV3 Slovenija - All races)
• United Kingdom (Channel 4 – British GP only)
• Venezuela (TVes - All races)

Formula 1 calendar

Australian Grand Prix: Melbourne, 15-17 March

Bahrain Grand Prix: Sakhir, 29-31 March

Chinese Grand Prix: Shanghai, 12-14 April

Azerbaijan Grand Prix: Baku, 26-28 April

Spanish Grand Prix: Barcelona, 10-12 May

Monaco Grand Prix: Monte Carlo, 23, 25-26 May

Canadian Grand Prix: Montreal, 7-9 June

French Grand Prix: Le Castellet, 21-23 June

Austrian Grand Prix: Spielberg, 28-30 June

British Grand Prix: Silverstone, 12-14 July

German Grand Prix: Hockenheim, 26-28 July

Hungarian Grand Prix: Budapest, 2-4 August

Belgian Grand Prix: Spa-Francorchamps, 30 August-1 September

Italian Grand Prix: Monza, 6-8 September

Singapore Grand Prix: Marina Bay, 20-22 September

Russian Grand Prix: Sochi, 27-29 September

Japanese Grand Prix: Suzuka, 11-13 October

Mexican Grand Prix: Mexico City, 25-27 October

United States Grand Prix: Austin, 1-3 November

Brazilian Grand Prix: Sao Paulo, 15-17 November

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Yas Marina, 29 November-1 December

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