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Great, thanks tobacco sponsors, F1TV will no longer provide replays in France (lemmy.blackeco.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to c/formula1@lemmy.world

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Dear Axel,

We are writing to inform you of upcoming changes to F1 TV in France to ensure compliance with anti-tobacco advertising legislation in France and its territories. Live sessions for F1, F2, F3 and F1 Academy will still be available via F1 TV Pro. However, the following programs will no longer be available on F1 TV Pro from July 11, 2024:

Replays, summaries, and pre- and post-race shows for the entire 2024 season.
Archives of races from previous seasons.
All shows and documentaries such as Tech Talks, Jolyon Palmers Analysis and F1 Icons.

Due to these changes, we are offering you two options.

Option 1: Continue your subscription and renew at a reduced price.

As an annual subscriber, we offer you F1 TV free for 6 months, after which your subscription will automatically renew (in accordance with our terms of sale) at the new reduced price of 49.99 EUR. This means that you can continue to use F1 TV without paying any additional fees until your next renewal on May 9, 2025. Please note that this will take effect from your next renewal after July 11, 2024. The price of your annual subscription previous one was 64.99 EUR.

Option 2: Cancel your subscription

If you are subscribed via our website, you can cancel your subscription via this link. You can also contact our customer service here.

Important :

The next time you log in to F1 TV, a window will appear asking you to consent to these changes to maintain your subscription. We understand that this change may cause inconvenience and we apologize for this.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our customer service.

Sincerely, The F1 TV team

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[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a problem with the French government. If the French government never passed the law. Where be no problem. Still sucks.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ads for tobacco have been outlawed for decades (I remember tobacco sponsors being blurred on broadcasts in the early 2000s), but somehow F1TV did not have to comply until now.

[–] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Great, now F1TV has become completely useless to me, as I rarely watch Grand Prix sessions live...

The alternatives are either:

trying to subscribe to and watch F1TV from abroad using a VPN (though I understand there has been a recent crackdown)
subscribe to Canal+, which costs 30€ a month
sail the seven seas?
give up F1 and watch WEC?

[–] flauschke@feddit.de 0 points 4 months ago

I actually drove to another country to subscribe to f1tv because it's not available in Germany and subscribing with a VPN doesn't work anymore.

Uh I mean, I heard that somebody did that

[–] ZeldaFreak@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

We Germans had this a few years ago. Sky Ticket was more expensive than Sky Q and offered less. I went with an IPTV Sky Box in year 2, because Sky Ticket was cheaper in the first year. The IPTV Box does kinda suck though. I get Free TV in HD for free but no ability to record and no 4K and HDR option, though it even got announced a while back.

To be fair, Sky has some exclusive series or at least exclusive for a year or so, so its not a total waste. And you still get ads (I don't speak about the sponsors on track). At least not during a race but right after the race during the inlap.