‘Looking for the Red Flags in Apple’s Formula 1 TV Deal’

‘Looking for the Red Flags in Apple’s Formula 1 TV Deal’

Jason Snell, at Six Colors: The entire point of a streaming-only product is that once you're off traditional TV, you can go beyond the single stream and provide interactive options. The whole point of streaming TV, especially sports, should be that you can leave the flat video stream behind and build something cool using software. That is, by the way, what F1 TV Pro is: A sophisticated bit of software that merges track data with multiple cameras…

Looking for the red flags in Apple’s Formula 1 TV deal

Apple’s been working closely with international racing circuit Formula 1 for a few years now, bringing “F1: The Movie” to the big screen and, on December 12, to Apple TV. Formula 1’s TV rights in the United States are currently up for bid, and Apple is reportedly working to extend and deepen its F1 relationship. John Ourand, the excellent sports business reporter now at Puck, reported last week that Apple got a deal to broadcast Formula 1 in the…