Television and other media broadcasters all take what is known as the World Feed, the live broadcast of a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Starting with select races in the 2004 Formula One World Championship, the World Feed has been gradually produced by FOM (Formula One Management) television production, the in-house media company of Formula One Group (now owned by Liberty Media), for every round of the F1 World Championship. Since the 2023 season, all of the races are produced by FOM. The World Feed produced by the local broadcaster was often criticized for focusing heavily on local drivers and teams, especially by international viewers and critics during the late 1980s and early 1990s, whilst missing key moments of the race.
Originally, FOM started producing an enhanced digital version of the World Feed from the 1996 season, when the F1 Digital+ service (also known as Bernie Vision) was launched via satellite on a subscription base. This led to a two-tier system between 1996 through 2002, where F1 races could be watched simultaneously for free via the World Feed produced by the local broadcaster and on pay-per-view or subscription base via the enhanced digital satellite World Feed produced by FOM for F1 Digital+. When the F1 Digital+ pay-per-view service was shut down by Ecclestone at the end of the 2002 season, due to financial failure, FOM gradually started taking over the production of the World Feed in select races where the local broadcaster could not guarantee a consistent production on international level. From 2007 season Formula One Management directed the TV coverage of all but three races, and for the 2008 season this number was reduced to two: the Monaco Grand Prix, produced by Télé Monte Carlo, and the Japanese Grand Prix, produced by Fuji Television. The differences between the local broadcaster and the FOM TV production styles could have been observed until the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix, which was the last F1 World Feed to be ever produced by a host broadcaster, Tele Monte Carlo. From 2023 onwards, FOM started producing coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix, thus completing the World Feed production takeover of all F1 races started with select races in 2004.
From 2006, Fuji Television filmed and broadcast the Japanese Grand Prix in high definition for their domestic audience. For the 2011 season, FOM released a high definition feed to broadcasters for the first time, and for 2012, the footage was filmed with 5.1 channel Dolby Digital surround sound audio. From 2017, footage began being broadcast in 4K ultra-high definition. From the 2007 Australian Grand Prix, the World Feed has been produced in 16:9 widescreen. Host Broadcasters trialled widescreen broadcasts for local viewers sporadically prior to the 2007 season – FujiTV and Australia are some of the broadcasters who did.
Alongside the main World Feed, formerly known as Super-Signal Feed during the F1 Digital+ era, FOM also produce a Pit-lane channel, showing shots from the pitlane and alternative camera angles, along with detailed weather and tyre information, and extra team radio. FOM also produce Onboard channels, showing live video from cameras installed on the drivers' cars. FOM also make available a Driver tracker channel, showing live positions of all the cars on the track during a session, as well as a timing screen showing live lap-times and circuit sector information. Furthermore, FOM produce a Data Channel, giving live timing and live data relating to pit-stops, tyres status, weather updates, FIA statements and other information about the session, as well as a Highlights Channel, rolling highlights up to the current point in the race.
In 2018, Formula 1 launched a subscription service called F1 TV with live streams of every F1 session and support series. The service includes many other features including live telemetry, on-demand views of each car and replays of historic F1 races, as well as exclusive shows. As of 2019, F1 TV restricts viewing to the country of residence or the EU, and requires the user to have a valid credit card in that same country. Due to rights restrictions, if outside the EU, it is not possible to watch F1 TV from outside one's home country.
In 2011, Sky Sports signed a seven-year deal with the BBC (who had already had broadcasting rights for several years), to show live Formula One on Sky in the United Kingdom for the first time. The deal which ran between 2012 and 2015 saw Sky Sports show live coverage of every session of the season on their own F1 dedicated channel, Sky Sports F1. In 2016, Sky extended their contract to 2024, and will be the exclusive live rights holders in the UK and Ireland from 2019; the British Grand Prix and highlights of all other races will be shown free-to-air, on a channel which has "90% technical availability". The BBC had shown Formula One until 1996, after which the rights moved to ITV. In 2009 they returned to the BBC after ITV decided to exit Formula One. Due to financial pressures, the BBC ended their television contract early after the 2015 season, transferring their rights to Channel 4 until the end of the 2018 season. Channel 4, like the BBC before them, always shows the British Grand Prix and the final race live. In 2021, Sky Sports F1 partnered with Channel 4 to broadcast the season-concluding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix live and free-to-air. In 2022, Sky recently extended their contract to 2029, and Channel 4 until 2023. In July 2023, Channel 4 extended their contract to 2026. In May 2026, Sky signed a £1bn deal to secure their Formula 1 rights to 2034.
Cable television network ESPN aired Formula One races in the United States between 1984 and 1997. From 1998 to 2000, coverage was split between Speedvision (full live coverage) and Fox Sports Net (usually taped delayed). From 2001 to 2012, Speedvision (later renamed Speed) had full coverage of the championship, with select races also airing on broadcast networks (ABC in early years, CBS in 2005, Fox from 2007 to 2012). On 14 October 2012, NBC Sports signed a four-year deal to broadcast Formula One races in the United States. On 4 October 2017, ESPN announced that it had acquired rights to Formula One under a multi-year deal beginning in 2018. On 22 October 2022, ESPN recently extended their deal until 2025. Ahead of the 2025 United States Grand Prix, Apple TV obtained five-year exclusive streaming rights to the sport from 2026 onward. In February 2026, IMAX and Apple announced that the Miami, Monaco, British, Italian and United States Grands Prix would be broadcast live in IMAX theatres in the United States.
The Nine Network began airing Formula One races in Australia in 1981, initially with delayed race highlights. Nine's coverage continued until 2002. In 2003, Network 10 started broadcasting the Formula One World Championship after the Nine Network dropped the rights in 2002 after 22 years of coverage. On February 13, 2015, Network 10 and Fox Sports signed a five-Year Deal starting in 2015 until 2019. On September 30, 2017, Network 10 dropped its remaining Formula One international live races; it retained the broadcast rights of Formula One Australian Grand Prix live races and rest of the races being highlights, beginning with the Malaysian Grand Prix. On March 23, 2022, Fox Sports extended their contract to 2026. In 2023, Network 10 quietly dropped the highlights packages due to poor reception (being shown late night Mondays). On 3 March 2026, ahead of the season-opening race in Melbourne, Foxtel and Kayo Sports announced their contract extension for the 2027 season and beyond.
In March 2022, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Formula 1 management terminated the contract of Match TV, the Russian broadcasting rights holder, and blocked access to F1 TV broadcasts from Russian and Belarusian territories.
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