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F1: UK's 2019-24 pay TV deal 'immutable'

– Formula 1 commercial chief Sean Bratches has admitted that the sport will not be shown on free-to-air (FTA) TV in the United Kingdom from 2019 through at least 2025, given Sky's "immutable" deal.Formula 1 was shown on FTA TV in the UK until 2011, when Sky Sports acquired live rights, with the BBC showing half of the Grands Prix live and the remaining half delayed, in highlights form.Channel 4 took over the BBC's half of the contract in 2016, but last year Sky announced that it had secured exclusive rights from 2019 to 2024, with only the British Grand Prix set to be live on FTA.Bratches previously intimated that a "hybrid" of PPV (Pay Per View) and FTA would be...
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