» Sky, BBC confirm F1 2015 broadcasts

Britain’s principal Formula 1 broadcasters, the SKY F1 and the BBC, have announced how they will share out live coverage of the 2015 Formula 1 season. Headlining this is an increase in the BBC‘s live broadcast offering, which increases to ten races for the forthcoming season.

As part of a shared services deal agreed at the start of 2012 when the BBC sold off its exclusive British broadcasting rights to the SKY pay-TV group, SKY will broadcast all Grand Prix sessions live, with half of the season being exclusively live. The BBC gets to broadcast live for half of the season, and deliver a one-hour highlights package later in the day.

For the 2015 season, SKY will have exclusive broadcasting rights to the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, the blue-ribband Monaco Grand Prix and Formula 1’s return to Mexico later in the year.

For Australian fans, Ten Sports will continue to hold exclusive live broadcasting of qualifying and each race. Commentary feed will be pulled from SKY.

2015 F1 British Broadcasting Breakdown:

Date	Event	Who’s broadcasting live?
15 March	Australian Grand Prix	SKY
29 March	Malaysian Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
12 April	Chinese Grand Prix	SKY
19 April	Bahrain Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
10 May	Spanish Grand Prix	SKY
24 May	Monaco Grand Prix	SKY
07 June	Canadian Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
21 June	Austrian Grand Prix	SKY
05 July	British Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
19 July	German Grand Prix	SKY
26 July	Hungarian Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
23 August	Belgian Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
06 September	Italian Grand Prix	SKY
20 September	Singapore Grand Prix	SKY
27 September	Japanese Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
11 October	Russian Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
25 October	United States Grand Prix	SKY
01 November	Mexican Grand Prix	SKY
15 November	Brazilian Grand Prix	SKY / BBC
29 November	Abu Dhabi Grand Prix	SKY / BBC