Broadcast Schedule for Upcoming Podcasts
As we mentioned on last week’s show, we’re creating so much F1 content these days that we’re struggling to keep track of it all. To help us out, we’ve put together a page detailing our upcoming schedule and expected release dates.
As you can probably see, during the course of a race weekend we’re planning to bring you a total of 5 audio podcasts, which is a heck of a lot of work, but we really want to provide the best Formula 1 coverage we possibly can.
Here’s a rough breakdown of how it all fits together and which bits you might be interested in.
Formula 1 TV
First up, for this season we’re producing Formula 1 videos on a weekly basis. Prior to a race weekend we’ll bring you our GP preview Inside Track and on alternate weeks F1 Rewind will take a look back at all of the recent F1 paddock gossip.
Basically it’s the same sort of things we did last year, but more of them.
Formula 1 Radio
Our audio output is increasing dramatically this year. We’re planning to create four new shows around race weekends, starting later today with a detailed look at the season opener. This will swiftly be followed up by all the free practice news tomorrow, qualifying on Saturday and a full race rundown on Sunday.
These shows will be commentary based, and are designed primarily for anyone who’s missed some or all of the weekends action. If you weren’t a fan of our lap-by-lap coverage last year these may not be for you, however if coverage in your country is a touch sporadic, then make sure you check these out.
On top of those four, we’ll still have the weekly opinion show on Sunday evenings. That format doesn’t change at all and we’ll catch up with all of your feedback and insights as we always do.
Still With Us?
We spent a very long time figuring out what to do this year, taking on board all of your compliments and criticisms, and we think we’ve come up with a pretty good schedule of content.
There will be more feeds / subscription options coming online soon that will allow you to select only the things you’re interested in, and to help you filter out the noise you’re not bothered about.
We’ve had a quick scout around, and at the moment it doesn’t appear that anyone else is doing anything like this amount of multimedia F1 coverage, and if we’ve got it right others will surely try something similar.
In the meantime please let us know if all of the above makes sense, if you’re looking forward to any of it, if you’d rather we did something else or if we’ve missed anything along the way.
Your feedback on this is really important to us. As always let us know via the usual routes.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:24 amAlenyaa said:
5 podcasts? 5?
I’m not complaining though, cheering out loud actually, but I do hope you know what you’re getting yourselves into.
This is going to take up a lot of your free time, for which I can only be grateful to you.
If there’s any feedback I can give you after the weekend I will. In the meantime, good luck. I think you’ll need a bit of that. (Just a tad ;))
March 13th, 2008 at 11:27 amme said:
in theory it should be a similar amount of work as last year, except we’re splitting shows up to be more frequent.
so instead of waiting until sunday night / monday morning to find out who qualified where, it’ll be more immediate.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:28 amme said:
forgot to mention that christine’s still doing F1 Minute each and every weekday. plus at weekends when a race is on.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:48 amChristine said:
We’ve a had a few comments like this. But I think you should spend your free time doing something fun, and I love, love, love Sidepodcast.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pmScott Dryden said:
The new schedule looks great. I’m really looking forward to listening to your output this year - it all sounds very comprehensive. You’ll turn Sidepodcast into the one-stop shop for Formula 1 fans.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:26 pmCraig said:
Can you please find the money somewhere to take over ITV’s official F1 contract when it runs out - you already put their coverage to shame!
March 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pmSteven Roy said:
I am thinking of giving Christine control of my Outlook calendar and I will fit my life round all the podcasts, video shows and columns that she is involved in. I struggle to find time to read, watch and listen to all at times I have no idea how you get time to do it all.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pmme said:
our coverage is probably closer to radio five live than itv - in that it’s regular audio. i heard the beeb’s contract is exceptionally cheap (bernie must’ve been having an off day). it must be due for renewal soon too.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:20 pmArun said:
Your coverage is just fantastic! Wish I knew this website from the day it started. I also think the long winter has made everyone longing to hear live engine screams very high.
March 13th, 2008 at 3:21 pmdoctorvee said:
It makes sense that the radio contract would be cheap… The Beeb has practically no competition, so there is no-one for them to bid against!
Looking forward to all of these podcasts. I don’t know how I’ll have the time to listen to everything!
March 13th, 2008 at 4:06 pmChristine said:
There’s a donate button at the bottom of the right nav bar
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