List of Formula One broadcasters

It attracts one of the largest global TV audiences after the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games , with a total global audience of about 352 million people for the 2017 season. [ 1 ]

Starting with select races in the 2004 Formula One World Championship , the World Feed has been gradually produced by FOM ( Formula One Management ) television production, the in-house media company of Formula One Group (now owned by Liberty Media ), for every round of the F1 World Championship.

Originally, FOM started producing an enhanced digital version of the World Feed from the 1996 season, when the F1 Digital+ service (also known as Bernie Vision ) was launched via satellite on a subscription base. The service offered additional features to the standard, single analogue television feed of the sport, which digital broadcasters had the option of taking up and broadcasting on their own digital interactive television platforms (at a higher price than the standard television feed, whic...

This led to a two-tier system between 1996 through 2002, which was unique in the sports' industry, where F1 races could be watched simultaneously for free via the World Feed produced by the local broadcaster and on pay-per-view or subscription base via the enhanced digital satellite World Feed produced by FOM for F1 Digital+ .

The race coverage shown on regular terrestrial TV was produced by a local broadcaster (the host broadcaster) and provided to all other broadcasters around the world. By comparison, the majority of the coverage shown on the F1 Digital+ service was produced on-site at each Grand Prix venue by Formula One Management. The operation involved transporting around 200 tons of equipment to each race. To transport the equipment required 18 trucks for European rounds or two Boeing 747 jumbo jets for fly-aw...

When the F1 Digital+ pay-per-view service was shut down by Ecclestone at the end of the 2002 season, due to financial failure, FOM gradually started taking over the production of the World Feed in select races where the local broadcaster could not guarantee a consistent production on international level.

In 2011, Sky Sports signed a seven-year deal with the BBC (who had already had broadcasting rights for several years), to show live Formula One on Sky in the United Kingdom for the first time. The deal which ran between 2012 and 2015 saw Sky Sports show live coverage of every session of the season on their own F1 dedicated channel, Sky Sports F1 . [ 5 ] Sky Sports F1 show all races and qualifying sessions live. [ 6 ] In 2016, Sky extended their contract to 2024, and will be the exclusive live ri...

Sky Sports F1 have broadcast every practice, qualifying and race since 2017 in 4K Ultra-HD, exclusively for Sky Q 2TB customers.

BBC. The BBC had shown Formula One until 1996, after which the rights moved to ITV . In 2009 they returned to the BBC after ITV decided to exit Formula One. [ 8 ] The BBC showed all races live for the next three seasons until the commencement of their deal with Sky which saw the BBC broadcast live coverage of half the races and all 20 races had "extended highlights". They also showed live coverage of practice and qualifying sessions from their live races. [ 9 ] The deal set that the British Gran...

For each Grand Prix (even if live) the BBC showed "extended highlights" of the race just a few hours after it had been broadcast. Late afternoon for early hours races and/or early evening. Late evening races were shown on the day and repeated on Monday evening. [ 10 ] The BBC Radio 5 Live coverage was unaffected.

Due to financial pressures, the BBC ended their television contract early after the 2015 season, transferring their rights to Channel 4 until the end of the 2018 season. [ 11 ] Sky Sports F1 remained unaffected and BBC Radio 5 Live and 5 Live Sports Extra 's coverage was extended until 2021. [ 12 ]

On 14 October 2012, NBC Sports signed a four-year deal to broadcast Formula One races in the United States. The majority of its coverage (including most races, and all practice/qualifying sessions) was broadcast by the pay channel NBCSN (with CNBC as an overflow channel), while four races were aired by the free-to-air NBC network per-season. The network also streamed additional camera feeds through its digital platforms. [ 19 ]

On 4 October 2017, ESPN announced that it had acquired rights to Formula One under a multi-year deal beginning in 2018. ESPN had previously broadcast Formula One from 1984 to 1997. The majority of coverage will be carried by ESPN2 , but two races (Monaco, Britain) will be carried on the main ESPN channel, and three races (Canada, United States and Mexico; it would later air the Miami Grand Prix starting in 2023), as well as an afternoon encore of the Monaco Grand Prix (following its Indianapolis...

In 2003, Network 10 started broadcasting the Formula One World Championship after the Nine Network dropped the rights in 2002 after 22 years of coverage. Network 10 used the ITV commentary team and then the BBC team, when they got the rights back. After BBC left F1 in 2015, Channel 10 started using Channel 4's coverage.

When FOM took over the broadcast in 2004, the local coverage was reverted to 4:3 – from 2004 to 2006, only the Channel Ten studio, pit lane reporters cameras and support races' onboard cameras were in widescreen. This caused digital tv viewers to get a bright red or yellow border to fill the 16:9 blank space when the FOM cameras were being shown.

During the Channel 10 era, Channel 10 used their own in house commentary to allow the optimisation of ad breaks at the Australian Grand Prix only.

In 2007, all qualifying sessions were shown in full either live or on tape delay.

When One HD was rebranded, the coverage returned to Channel 10.

On February 13, 2015, Network 10 and Fox Sports signed a five-Year Deal starting in 2015 until 2019, Network 10 broadcast 10 races live including Australian Grand Prix and the remaining races shown Highlights, while Fox Sports broadcast all Practices, Qualifying and Races. [ 28 ]

On September 30, 2017, Network 10 dropped its remaining Formula One international live races; it retained the broadcast rights of Formula One Australian Grand Prix live races and rest of the races being highlights, beginning with the Malaysian Grand Prix. Fox Sports live coverage continued unchanged for the next five years, until 2022. [ 28 ]

On March 23, 2022, Fox Sports extended their contract to 2026. [ 29 ]

In 2023, Network 10 quietly dropped the highlights packages due to poor reception (being shown late night Mondays). [ 30 ] [ 31 ] They however were committed to broadcasting live coverage of the Australian Grand Prix only until 2026.

^1 – Rights in Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor Leste. ^2 – Rights in parts of North America (except Mexico), South America (including Argentina for Fox Sports) and the Caribbean. ^3 – Rights in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

Since the 2023 season, all of the races are produced by FOM .

Live broadcasts of Formula One Championship races on ORF are commentated by ORF's sport correspondent Ernst Hausleitner with aid from Alexander Wurz . Occasionally other co-commentators like Adrian Sutil or Christian Klien substituted for Wurz. In 2021, they share the broadcast with ServusTV with different commentators. Andrea Schlager presenting the coverage, while Andreas Gröbl joined by Nico Hülkenberg and Christian Klien in the commentary position. Both broadcasters will each airing 12 races...

For the entire 2015 Formula One season , Pascal Wehrlein was Hausleitner's main co-commentator.

With the beginning of the 2009 Formula One season , Hausleitner took over the Formula 1 commentator position from Heinz Prüller, who is a legend in Austrian television history because of his enthusiasm for the sport and immersion into the races.

Live broadcasts of Formula One Championship races in the Band network are called by Sérgio Maurício [ pt ] . Former IndyCar driver Felipe Giaffone and journalist Reginaldo Leme [ pt ] are serving as race analysts. Pit reports are provided by Mariana Becker .

Ivan Tenchev, Trayan Sarafov, Georgi Ivanov and Momchil Manchev.

Live Formula One broadcasts are provided by Nova Sport, which took the rights from Sport1 and Sport 2 before the 2024 season. Commentary will be provided by Števo Eisele, Josef Král (former GP2 driver) and Pavel Fabry.

Live broadcasts of Formula One Championship qualifications and races are available on Setanta Sports Eurasia .

In the period from 2014 to 2015, Oleg Shibeko was the Formula 1 commentator at Setanta Sports.

Also, since 2015, Artem Balenok began his work on Formula 1 broadcasts, who commentated on races until September 2018. Until the end of the season, Formula 1 was commented by Roman Galimon, who was replaced for the 2019 season by Vladimir Klapan.

Vyacheslav Kobrzhytskyi has taken over as commentator from Volodymyr Klapan for 2020 season. [ 157 ]

Elmir Valeev replaced Vyacheslav Kobrzhytskyi as a commentator from June 2024.

Live broadcasts of Formula One Championship races were available on Viasat 's pay-TV-channel V Sport + / 1 / 2 , which replaced C More Max in 2022. Current main commentator since 2017 is Niki Juusela . Before him Formula One Championship races commentate Matti Kyllönen (1985–2009), Tomi Tuominen (2001–2003) and Oskari Saari (2004–2016). Nowadays co-commentators are Ossi Oikarinen , Mika Salo , Toni Vilander , Aaro Vainio and Tommi Pärmäkoski.

Since 2021, full live coverage is available on Sky Sport . Coverage led by Peter Hardenacke while commentary is provided by Sascha Roos alongside former F1 drivers Ralf Schumacher and Timo Glock . Sandra Baumgartner handling paddock reports. Coverage also available in Austria.

All races with full coverage is broadcast on ViaPlay who replaces longtime broadcaster Ziggo Sport . ViaPlay coverage is fronted by Amber Brantsen joined with studio analysts Christijan Albers , Giedo van der Garde , Tom Coronel and Ho-Pin Tung . Former Formula 1 drivers Jos Verstappen , Mika Häkkinen and David Coulthard and nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans champion Tom Kristensen will each contribute as international analysts. Commentary is provided by Nelson Valkenburg and Melroy Heemskerk while ...

Since 2023, all races are broadcast by Viaplay , who replaced Eleven Sports . [ 160 ] During pre-season test, sessions are commented by Bartosz Budnik, Bartosz Pokrzywiński, Robert Smoczyński, Maciej Jermakow, Paweł Baran, Aldona Marciniak , Kamila Kotulska and Patryk Sokołowski, ex Scuderia Ferrari and McLaren aerodynamics engineer. Aldona Marciniak is main studio host, with Kamila Kotulska and Patryk Sokołowski as tech analysts. In selected weekends, tech analysis will be provided by Marcin Bu...

In the pay-per-view channel DAZN , which holds the rights of the entire championship exclusively in Spain from the 2021 season replacing Movistar F1 , the main commentator is journalist Antonio Lobato. Co-commentators for the qualifying and the race are former Arrows , Jaguar , McLaren , Sauber and HRT driver Pedro de la Rosa and F1 engineer Toni Cuquerella , who worked for Williams , Ferrari , and HRT . Cuquerella is also the co-commentator for Free Practice 3 while journalists Jacobo Vega and ...

In Teledeporte , the sports channel of the Spanish national public TV, which offers a 60-minutes time highlights of every race (except the Spanish Grand Prix, which is shown live in the TVE main channel La 1 ), journalist Marc Martí is the main commentator, with 2021 and 2023 IndyCar Series Champion Alex Palou as co-commentator. In the live broadcast of the Spanish Grand Prix, they were joined by FIA World Endurance Championship and former Manor Marussia F1 driver Roberto Merhi and journalist Ju...

Live broadcasts of Formula One Championship races on Mediapro -owned Canal F1 Latin America are called by lap-by-lap announcer Christian González Rouco, son of Argentine motorsports journalist Eduardo Gocuntlez Rouco, and grandson and grandnephew, respectively, of Isidro González Longhi and Andrés Rouco, with Colombian motorsports journalist Diego Mejía as race analyst. Pit reports are provided by Spanish sports journalist Nira Juanco, who previously worked on Antena 3 's F1 broadcasts, and has ...

In Mexico and Latin America, The races are called by Argentine motorsports journalist Fernando Tornello , with Mexican motorsports journalist Luis Manuel "Chacho" López as analysts and Juan Fossaroli handling the pit reports and pre-race interviews. This coverage is airing on Fox Sports Latin America (Mexico only), ESPN Latin America , Fox Sports Chile , STAR Premium Latin America , and also available on ESPN Deportes in the US. All broadcasters have the rights until 2022.

Televisa broadcasts in Mexico a one-hour almost complete race show hosted by Mexican sports journalists Rafael Bolaños and Carlos Jalife, sometimes accompanied by a third commentator which has been Ignacio Alva, Giselle Zarur or Sam Reyes in the past. The show edits the races to about 50 minutes from start to the checkered flag and is broadcast around midnight on race days on free air TV, channels 4 or 9 in Mexico. They also broadcast live the Mexican Grand Prix from Practice 1 to the Race from ...

Eje Elgh was also one of those who commentated F1 for many years together with Janne Blomqvist but retired before the modern F1 car era.

Rickard Rydell is an F1 commentator since 2014, he usually was a race car driver and competed in multiple ways such as Formula race cars from 1986 to 1993, BTCC from 1994 to 2000, he later moved on to ETCC from 2002 to 2004 which later became WTCC from 2005 to 2009. He was temporarily an expert commentator at Viasat Motor in the year 2010. But he returned the year after to race again for 3 years before he moved on to be an F1 expert commentator in the future.

Suzanne Sjögren is the host of the 1 hour pre-shows before an F1 race starts. She started working at Viaplay in 2018.

Björn Wirdheim was, like Rickard, a race car driver, who competed in many sports as well such as, International F3000, F1, Champ car, Formula Nippon, Super GT, WEC, Euro Le Mans and STCC. He started as an F1 commentator at the same time as Suzanne Sjögren in 2018.

( Cine5 ) Emre Tilev and Aytaç Kot interpreted the 1995-1996-1997 seasons.

( NTV ) Fuat akdağ-Erkan Arseven & Okay Karacan-Serra Yılmaz duo commented on the 7 seasons between 1998 and 2004, respectively.

( CNN Türk ) Cem Yılmaz-Serhan Acar duo interpreted the 2005–2008 seasons.

( TRT 2009-2010-2011) (Sporsmart, 2012-2013-2014-2016) (Tivibuspor and Ligtv 2015) ( S Sport 2017-) Broadcast Channels.

Serhan Acar interpreted all the races from 2007 to the present.

Sky Sports F1 is primary broadcaster of Formula One in the United Kingdom, providing comprehensive live coverage of all sessions during race weekends—including practice, qualifying, and races—along with expert analysis and special features. The broadcast is primarily hosted by Simon Lazenby , with Natalie Pinkham stepping in as lead presenter when Lazenby is unavailable. Commentary is led by David Croft , alongside Martin Brundle , with Harry Benjamin occasionally filling in. Rachel Brookes serv...

Coverage of the British Grand Prix is also covered live by Channel 4 . They also produce extended highlights shows for the other races in the season. As of 2023, Channel 4's commentary team consists of lead commentator Alex Jacques and former Formula One drivers David Coulthard and Jolyon Palmer . Ariana Bravo and Lee McKenzie serve as the main relief presenters and reporters. Steve Jones hosts the coverage with Coulthard, Mark Webber , Billy Monger and Alice Powell providing analysis. Starting ...

The official English-language radio coverage of Formula One is produced in the United Kingdom by BBC Radio 5 Live and simulcast in North America via SiriusXM . Live coverage of practice sessions, qualifying, and races is available on Radio 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra, and the BBC Sport website. Jennie Gow and Rosanna Tennant handle presenting and pit-lane reporting duties, with Tennant standing in for Gow during her recovery from a serious stroke in late 2022 [ 165 ] . The commentary team is led by H...

In Canada, TSN airs the Sky Sports broadcasts, albeit with additional opt-outs during the race for commercial breaks . TSN's lead F1 reporter is Tim Hauraney. In the province of Quebec, RDS broadcasts the race with Pierre Houde, Patrick Carpentier and Bertrand Houle as lead commentators.

Both the Sky Sports and Channel 4 TV broadcasts are also available in the Republic of Ireland.

Beginning with the 2018 season, Netflix has produced a docudrama that gives viewers an in-depth look at the intricacies of race days and the lives of the drivers and other team officials. Formula 1: Drive to Survive comprises 5 seasons as of January 2024 with the sixth season covering the 2023 Formula One World Championship expected sometime in early 2024. [ 167 ]

Univision Deportes served as the official F1 broadcaster for the Spanish community in the United States, with Sergio Rodriguez handling lap-by-lap commentary, Gustavo Roche handling race analysis and Christina Romero handling pit reports.

Since 2018, the broadcast is covered live by ESPN Deportes , using same crew as ESPN Latin America coverage.