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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
There is no way FOM just lets ESPN broadcast without paying a fee.
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Well, it's free advertising... I'm pretty sure that F1 team sponsors like getting live coverage on ESPN2.
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Originally Posted by Richard Casto
I assume it's not so much that FOM was keeping the rights for free/OTT but rather NBC was probably not willing to pay whatever FOM wanted to allow NBC to keep the exclusive rights for the US market (current NBC deal).
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On the contrary, I think that F1 was not willing to sell full rights to NBC. Liberty Global wants to develop an in-house streaming service.