Sky Sports Darts in, Sky Sports F1 out. For Christmas, at least. To coincide with the William Hill Darts Championship, Sky Sports Darts will be returning from Monday 14th December. Instead of replacing one of the main five Sky Sports channels, the Darts channel will be replacing the F1 channel from 14th December through to Tuesday 5th January 2016.
It is the first time that the F1 channel has gone off air for multiple weeks since it launched on Friday 9th March 2012. It appears therefore that there will be no new F1 programming over the Christmas period on Sky Sports. A cynic might be tempted to suggest that this could be a move to quietly kill the F1 channel in the off-season – although I doubt that very much and would be incredibly surprised (even if Sky’s press office has refused multiple times to comment on the subject). Sky’s 2016 schedules should be out before Christmas, so we will no doubt see the schedule for Sky Sports F1’s early weeks in 2016 soon.
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That’s be embarassing: F1 deemed less exciting than darts…
How so? No F1 programming over Christmas so thats why its being replaced, No way they would replace with Darts, More viewers for F1.
Actually the darts attracts 14m viewers, a much higher peak than the F1 would otherwise get. Although it’s only over two weeks.
Most likely because its not on all year round, F1 is
Dont know where you got 14m from, Last years darts championship only had 1.4m, F1 gets more then that on each race on BBC anyhow.
Pretty certain that was a typo.
Last year’s darts peaked with 1.4 million and reached 4 million. F1 hasn’t reached too many more on Sky, as I mentioned in the US Grand Prix piece, embarrassingly F1 still hasn’t peaked with over two million viewers on Sky.
Yes F1 is just not at its peak at the moment, Merc dominance not helping either.
i think sky will do this and in new year sky motorsport will arrive off course this wont be on the old hd legacy pack .
Sky said it will remain has Sky Sports F1, They dont show enough Motorsport to warrant a generic Motorsport channel, Not yet at least.