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TEN relents on Formula One for Adelaide & Perth

TEN has buckled to pressure from Formula One fans and will now screen coverage on ONE in Adelaide and Perth.

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TEN has buckled to pressure from Formula One fans and will now screen coverage on ONE in Adelaide and Perth when it airs on TEN on the East Coast.

It follows a backlash from fans angry that the motorsports has been delayed in those cities since it switched from ONE to TEN.

The network will continue to screen Formula One on TEN in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane at 9:30pm on Sundays. In Adelaide and Perth an NCIS repeat will play on TEN.

Fans have also criticised TEN over the loss of HD coverage.

In a statement TEN said, “Network Ten is committed to bringing Formula One and MotoGP to more viewers and building motorsport’s television presence in Australia.

“This was achieved successfully on Sunday night (April 22), when running Round 4 – Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix on TEN produced a 46% increase in viewers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane compared with the same round last year.

“As a result, Network Ten’s broadcast of Formula One and MotoGP will remain live on TEN in the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane markets.

“But we recognise that viewers in Adelaide and Perth want live sport. We acknowledge the concerns expressed by some viewers in those cities about the delayed telecast of Sunday night’s race.

“Network Ten has, therefore, decided to broadcast Formula One and MotoGP in Adelaide and Perth live on ONE. Viewers in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will continue to receive the broadcast live on TEN.”

“In addition, we will live stream the broadcast on www.tensport.com.au in all markets.”

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  1. Ten are indeed showing Moto GP and Formula One on Delay in its usual Timeslot for Perth and Adelaide viewers at 11pm as they have replaced the Sunday Night Movie with Moto GP on Sunday

  3. People power has spoken. Still it doesn’t change the fact that they stuffed up a good thing. The network needs to realise that there is no point in just putting it on the main channel because the analogue signal will be switched of in cities at the end of 2013. This was just a pointless excersise. They are wasting ONE. it is just used to sell at space and they are not making that much money from it anyway because the content on ONE is crap. It was an absolute disgrace that last nights NBL grand final game three wasnt Live to all centres instead perth luckily got it live everyone else suffered. One thing i would like to know does Sky sport in NZ offer live streaming because if they do i will just watch Live NBL on there sight most likely for free.

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