Mar.9 (YF1) Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) has purchased exclusive rights to broadcast the FIA Formula 1 World Championship in the MENA region from this year (2010) to 2012 according to a report in The National newspaper.
Abu Dhabi Sports 2 to host F1 live
The deal highlights Abu Dhabi’s ties to F1, after hosting the season’s final race at Yas Marina Circuit last November and again at the end of 2010. Already the UAE capital has F1 involvement through: Mubadala, Etihad Airways, Aabar and Aldar.
Mohammed Najeeb, the head of Abu Dhabi Al Riyadiya Channels, the sports broadcasting department at ADMC, is quoted in The National “Abu Dhabi is aiming to be the international capital of sport so the media has to follow this growth. Formula One is a very important sport. A lot of people love to watch it and after building Yas Marina Circuit, definitely we have to follow the growth of this sport.”
Bahrain TV, the state broadcaster of the first country in the region to host an F1 race, held the regional rights last year. Before that they were held by Al Jazeera.
ADMC will broadcast the races in Arabic on its free-to-air channel, Abu Dhabi Al Riyadiya 2 also known as Abu Dhabi Sports 2.
FIA restrictions prevent the company from putting the English feed on free-to-air satellite, hence English broadcasts of the races will be screened on E-Vision’s pay channel.
The new deal means that fans will get unprecedented TV coverage of Formula 1 race, including:
• Trackside coverage by a team of reporters and commentators;
• Pre-race and post race analysis live from the Abu Dhabi Al Riyadiya (Abu Dhabi Sports 2) team;
• Commentary available in Arabic on free to air;
• Commentary in English on E-Vision package;
• Broadcasts to start 1 hour before each of the 19 Grand Prix races;
• Abu Dhabi Al Riyadiya 2 (Abu Dhabi Sports 2) is available on Nilesat frequency 11977 vertical, symbol rate 27500, FEC 56/
• Website here: www.adtv.ae/formula1
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Hey people…….there is no way this abu dhabi commentator bunch is gonna improve whatsoever. I have waited on them for 4 months & they seem to go from bad to worse!! And what’s with the guy who gets sent to the paddock each race………waste of time & money…..pretends he is giving us updates with his funny accent ‘Red Boool’!! Ladies for other channels do a better job than him!! Take my advice…….do what I do though it may be complicated but at least you will enjoy it. I record the race & watch the replay while listening to the BBC iplayer (on radio 5) which has excellent commentary from David Croft, Anthony Davidson & Holly Samos.
PLEASE can you offer optional English commentary when available via the audio options? I appreciate and respect that Arabic is the home language in the Middle East, it would however be a great advantage to both Abudadhbi SP and visitors like myself to be able to enjoy and share in the F1 experience…! Many thnaks
please who ever is responsible on monitoring the commentators to make sure that Ayman And Firas not talk about what they are not 100% sure off, and when schumacher makes a fast lap they don’t have to say that because his car is low on fuel. guys this is formula 1, that means strategy, don’t throw words, he has his fans pals. Keep that in mind. talk everthing that pleases the audience…..
Could your studio commentators not talk while the post qualifying and post race interviews are on? It is the only time we can hear the drivers comments in english.This habit started during the last two races and is irritating to say the least.We just ask for a few minutes of silence.
please there´s no sound in abudhabi tv
Absolutely dreadful commentary. Please give us all the English comm instead.
Malaysian Race will be replayed at 18:30 (UAE time).
Message to Feras Nimri: Be kind to the F1 audience and resign. Obviously you have no idea what is going on during the race, before the race or afterwards. We want commentary on the race, not just blaber. No need to state the obvious, listen to the foreign commentators and learn the trade.
what time is the race replayed on abu dhabi Sport 2?
is there any other channel that broadcast the race or the replay in english / arabic that you recomand. i’m having the Du contract.
please we need to know when the race will be replayed?
You can’t get Etisalat’s E-Vision service where I live in Dubai – we only get Du. So that rules out English commentary. And Bahrain Sports 2 aren’t broadcasting it at all like last year (with BBC’s commentary). Madness.
when will the race be replayed? please reply asap!!!
How do you get access to E-Vision’s pay channel if you dont live in UAE ?
can someone tell me how i can watch the F1 live on my PC
Jazeera had good coverage, i dont know why they gave it up. Last year i folowed F1 on the French TF1 channel
so far BBC is the best, TF1 comes second.
the most important thing however will be about who will handle the commenting for Abu Dhabi? if they bring some looser shmooser that is a schumi fan and knows no team but ferrari, then good luck…
What I don’t understand also is how do these tv channels only announce the deals days before the first race. what if people want to appy for the job of commentator. Shouldn’t the station do surveys to see if they need them in the first place, if the ones on the other station were good enough.,,, what do fans want? what are the requirements etc.
F1 coverage in the M.ENA region has always been second rate…
I hope the coverage is better than last year where Bahrain TV somehow managed to screw it up big time. WTF were they doing last year? I felt so annoyed with 2009 coverage.
cose the last year the brodcast was suck….
i hope that you will be beter than the bahrain tv…thank you
Bless you for this P..gonna play hookie from work for Sunday..Ha!
“FIA restrictions prevent the company from putting the English feed on free-to-air satellite, hence English broadcasts of the races will be screened on E-Vision’s pay channel.”
Can someone explain that ?
FOM/CVC control the commercial rights not the FIA.
i have abudhabi sport 1
this channel will broadcast f1 ???