WRC Broadcasting in America
 

autosport.com - WRC News: WRC wins TV deal in the US
The World Rally Championship's promoters have struck a deal to screen the category in the United States.

In what's been seen as a vital move to re-establish the sport in one of the world's key car markets, the WRC promoter International Sportsworld Communicators (ISC) has secured a deal with Discovery Communication channel HD Theater, which has a total audience of 633 million.

ISC CEO said: "This is tremendous news for the championship and our fans in the United States. It's a ground-breaking deal which means the WRC has a high-profile broadcast presence in the US. We’re looking forward to taking the WRC to an ever-widening audience in the significant US market."

Long has previously stated that it remains one of ISC's aims to return a World Rally Championship event to America. The series hasn't included a State-side round since Miki Biasion won the Olympus Rally in 1988.

So the first broadcast is at 7pm on October 4th.

This is good news. Anybody one of the 633,000,000?

And can get it into a portable format? Or are the rest of us stuck waiting for Torrents still?

Not going to hold my breath for a U.S. Rally though.

I have HD Theatre, I'm too lazy to sign in...are they airing races on a significant delay? Or same weekend?

"Everything is amazing and nobody is happy"

Is this a online broadcast right? no tv?

No, it is a Discovery owned cable/sat channel.

HD Theater eh? I'll have to see if Charter gives me that.

Ch: 775 if you get their HD Ultra View package.

Yup, it is channel 775, here is the thread I started about it as well : http://seccs.org/forums/showthread.php?t=7932

I am watching channel 775 right now and just saw the commercial for WRC!! it is airing This Sunday at 8pm.. I am excited.


Actually I just checked it and it is actually going to be airing at 5pm (Pacific) and then again at 8pm... Too bad I dont have a DVR. I need to invest in something like this.

This is good, I was also pleasantly surprised to find that charter added several new HD channels yesterday including speedhd and MLB HD.

Yep. I setup F1 to be recorded in HD this weekend. It's too bad it's not actually HD... but it does look better in digital widescreen even if it's just 480p.

Agreed, the basica Speed feed was horrible and the fit was way off...I'm not complaining.

Finally got around to wathcing Rally Ireland last night. In HD. Good Stuff. The broadcasts are exactly what speed used to have, only modernized. I forgot how much I enjoy watching rally, it just sucks that Subaru and Suzuki are gone. On a side note, Chris Atkinson is still good at wrapping cars around poles.

Well, at least he's narrowed the people he crashes into down to just one nationality.

Oh! Polish Humor...Kubica is not impressed.

Not yet... but if he's not careful, Atkinson might impress him into a bumper.

(Thanks for teeing that one up BTW.)

Yeah, I actually enjoyed it and look forward to watching this Sunday as well. It is a bummer that Subaru and Suzuki are no longer but I'd like to see Mikko take the Driver's Championship title.

the rally was fun and the day was full of nothin but rally inspired crashes drivers etc...great to have it back in america

Both 1 hour shows were awesome.

I hate all of you! :)

Back to torrent the Eurosport feed...

aww poor Dean, Sorry man, If I knew how to record them I would for ya. That reminds me to watch today's, I think it's Ireland. Actually at 4pm it's Ireland and at 5P it's Norway..

I saw the last of Norway. That snow driving was impressive.

Hell yeah it was, that battle between Sebastian and Mikko was awesome too all the way to the end..

Bump...wow! Cyprus is still as crazy as I recall from a few years back...this year it was a mixed tarmac/ gravel rally, so watching them push the cars on pavement with gravel tires, brakes and suspension was insane...

I love seeing Petter back in action, although it is weird to see him in a 3 year old hand-me-down Citroen. His own private team looks well prepared though...Loved seeing him grab a podium spot....