MotoGP: Since 2014 the world championship exclusively on Sky
From 2014 Sky will broadcast all 18 races exclusively, the first year 8 free-to-air
Sky has announced that it has acquired the rights to the MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 classes starting from 2014. Subscribers will therefore be able to see all eighteen Grands Prix, but to "entice" non-subscribers, eight Grands Prix will be broadcast free-to-air . Here is the press release.
Another extraordinary exclusive enriches Sky's already inimitable offering of great live sports: the pay TV has in fact acquired the television rights to the FIM MotoGP World Championship starting from the 2014 season for all technologies and methods of offering, including free-to-air TV, pay TV, internet, mobile and Sky Go.
Thanks to an agreement with Dorna Sports, the championship's organizing company, starting from the 2014 season Sky will broadcast all 18 races of the three classes (MotoGP™, Moto2™, Moto3™) of the MotoGP™ World Championship.
The MotoGP World Championship, and in particular in the last decade the MotoGP races, represents one of the sporting events by far most followed by the Italian television audience, passionate about the exploits of dynasties of champions, from Giacomo Agostini to Valentino Rossi, to the very young Romano Fenati and to the winning tradition of Italian teams such as Ducati and Aprilia.
Now Sky is preparing to decisively enrich the narration of this sport, already extraordinarily popular in Italy, by telling it in High Definition, offering its subscribers the possibility of personalizing their vision and emotions thanks to interactivity and of following the own champions in action thanks to the Sky Go service.
To all this will be added the completeness of Sky's typical coverage, an unprecedented viewing experience, as has already happened in many other major events covered by pay-TV and as will happen in a few weeks on the occasion of the London 2012 Olympic Games, of which Sky is the official TV for Italy.
“We are happy to have reached this agreement. It represents a new, decisive signal of great importance for season ticket holders, who will be able to count on one of the sporting events most rooted in the passions of Italians in the years to come – he said Andrea Zappia, Chief Executive Officer of Sky Italia – It is confirmation that Sky continues its line of major investments to guarantee an unparalleled offer, constantly enriching it. We thank Dorna – said Zappia – for the trust placed in us. This is a partner that guarantees an organization at the highest international level and with which I am sure we will be able to build a path of further valorisation of this great sport. From today our goal will be to work every day so that MotoGP and the entire World Championship continue to grow in the collective imagination of Italians, who already have a great passion for a sport that sees our compatriots constantly at the top."
“We are satisfied because this agreement with Sky will allow MotoGP to continue its growth. It is a partner known for offering sport with the best quality and the best possibilities and which has already demonstrated, and still demonstrates, the ability to develop content for new platforms – he added Carmelo Ezpeleta, Dorna Sports CEO – In a country with a great and consolidated motorcycling tradition like Italy, where the present is called Valentino Rossi and where the development of new riders for which Romano Fenati is now the reference is fundamental, the inimitable sports programming of the Sky world will certainly give new impetus to the MotoGP World Championship thanks above all to the use of new digital technologies.”
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NO to Guido Meda as SUPERBIKE saddle commentator!!
and with this the moto gp is also over... imagine if I pay to see the trains. But it's sad that without paying you can't have anything, not even half an hour on Sunday at 14pm to enjoy a race... how sad! Money isn't enough of the fee... and then nice that they even talk about it as if it were a cool thing!!! let's at least hope that they don't take away the sbk too...
As long as no one subscribes and no one watches it, the sponsors, due to lack of ratings, will push to bring it back to where people watch it, i.e. in free-to-air since I don't think they should pay good money to show "nobody" their brand. that it is of interest and healthy for the company, which then we already pay in part every time we purchase something that is sponsored on the motorbike or on the rider ergo we would pay it twice if we went to subscribe.
As far as I'm concerned and on principle I don't subscribe to Sky!
damn B******I!!!!
you and your pitiful business games will all go up in the air!!!
I live in Switzerland and I can see motorbikes on three Swiss channels (Italian, French and German). I feel enormously sorry for you who live in Italy. And to think that motorcycling could also be considered part of the heritage of Italian sport. You see how many titles we have won. Not even a measly hour of riding every second week and for only half a year. This story sucks. And indeed, the motorbikes should be broadcast by the public channel, that is RAI, which takes a lot of money, and which however spends it on many rubbish programmes, too many to list here. But where have we arrived in Italy.
Conclusion: Dear Italians, you shouldn't even pay the fee, they'll take you for that place anyway :-(
How I envy you that you live in Switzerland (I live 24 km from the Bizzarone/Mendrisio border) but not because you will be able to see the races, well for that too, but above all for other much more important things.
When I come to you on my motorbike, most of the trips I do are in Switzerland, just after the border it seems like another world, altogether.
Lucky you, bye.
It is likely that Sky will also take on F1 after MotoGP so as to encourage motoring enthusiasts to subscribe.
It seems ridiculous to me, also given the license fee we pay, that MotoGP, F1 and Superbike are not broadcast by Rai... anyway they also advertise on the public service and if an F1 GP attracts 8 million spectators I don't see where the problem is to cover the costs however high.
If that RAI shit rises up, F1 will be a popular uprising too, don't worry, I'm in the lead.
I believe (and sincerely hope) that it is impossible, because Ferrari is neither Ducati nor V. Rossi, Ferrari is part of the social fabric of this shitty country.
Thank God.
At least don't take that away from us.
Sky will never have the money.
FUCK*****I.
I won't have a Sky subscription. I prefer SBK
Hello lads…. I'm a Sky subscriber, but it sucks that we have to pay for everything. then let's not talk about RAI spending money (as WR says) on rubbish programs and we give 2 million euros to someone as rudeness for half an hour of rubbish programmes.
it is doomed to failure, remember SBK which was no longer followed when it was taken away from TMC? same fate….