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France follows UK and Italy to pay TV model for F1 coverage

Posted on February 14, 2013

[Updated] France has become the latest major European market for Formula 1 to switch to a Pay TV model, as Canal + snapped up the rights starting this season. The 11th hour deal is exclusive, which means that long time free-to-air broadcaster TF1 is out of F1 after many years of association and it is another nail in the coffin for Free to Air broadcasters as purveyors of premium live sports. It also means that three of Europe’s largest markets for F1 coverage are now under the control of Pay TV, following the UK which switched to Sky in 2012 More…

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March 17, Australia
March 24, Malaysia
April 14, China
April 21, Bahrain
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June 9, Canada
June 30, Britain
July 7, Germany
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1
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2
  Kimi Räikkönen
3
  Felipe Massa
4
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5
  Mark Webber
6
  Nico Rosberg
7
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8
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9
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10
  Daniel Ricciardo
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1
  Sebastian Vettel
89
2
  Kimi Räikkönen
85
3
  Fernando Alonso
72
4
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50
5
  Felipe Massa
45
6
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42
7
  Romain Grosjean
26
8
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26
9
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22
10
  Jenson Button
17
11
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12
12
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7
13
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6
14
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5
15
  Jean-Eric Vergne
1
16
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0
17
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0
18
  Pastor Maldonado
0
19
  Jules Bianchi
0
20
  Charles Pic
0
21
  Giedo van der Garde
0
22
  Max Chilton
0
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Red Bull
131
2
Ferrari
117
3
Lotus
111
4
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72
5
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32
6
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29
7
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8
8
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5
9
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0
10
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0
11
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