{"id":972482,"date":"2026-05-20T04:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/972482\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:09:23","slug":"liberty-media-ceo-praises-apples-f1-plans-possibility-of-more-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/972482\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Media CEO Praises Apple’s F1 Plans, Possibility Of More Deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs Apple<\/a> TV begins airing Formula One races in the U.S., Liberty Media CEO Derek Chang says he believes there could be a broader partnership down the line.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tApple reached a five-year deal<\/a> last fall for the U.S. broadcast rights to F1<\/a>, taking over the rights from ESPN. Apple TV began showing races in 2026, but has also since struck a deal with Netflix to simulcast the F1 Canadian Grand Prix. As part of the deal, Apple TV and Netflix also both have streaming rights to season eight of Drive to Survive.<\/p>\n

\n\tChang, who leads Formula One parent company Liberty Media, said he believes deal with Apple TV has been a benefit to all parties, which could lead to some further dealmaking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe haven\u2019t done any other deals with Apple yet, but clearly they\u2019ve been invigorated by sort of the success that they\u2019ve had with us in the U.S. thus far, you know, it goes without saying that Eddy Cue is a huge F1 fan, and whether or not we can maybe do business with Apple in other locations around the world remains to be seen, and I think we\u2019ll have those discussions,\u201d Chang said at an investor conference Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOne initial worry was whether the fans would follow the sport from ESPN to Apple TV, but Chang said he believes \u201cthe fans have followed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe fans have been there, and I think now what you\u2019re seeing is less, certainly from an investor standpoint, \u2018Is this going to work? To, \u2018What does this unleash, and what is the potential of a deal with Apple?,\u201d he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll of a sudden, you\u2019re on a tech platform, which has many more capabilities and flexibility they can do, and so things like the multi-view application, the amount of data that\u2019s coming forth through the product is pretty amazing, and I think that the fans are gravitating towards it. Fans are noticing what they have and what Apple is actually bringing to them, and it\u2019s all been in my mind very, very positive,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tChang also praised Apple\u2019s willingness to work with share F1 rights with other platforms like Netflix and others and broadcast races in Imax theaters, which also opens up more possibilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThey\u2019ve got other deals with Tubi and other ways of distributing the product that, in the old world, you never would have thought of, because you would have said, \u2018You\u2019re giving content to a competitor.\u2019 And what we see now is really an innovation and a way to innovate where it\u2019s not really a competitive concept, but more of a promotional concept, and I think it\u2019s working, and I think you know that\u2019s again one of the elements that Apple brings to the table,\u201d Chang said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Apple TV begins airing Formula One races in the U.S., Liberty Media CEO Derek Chang says he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":972483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[1662,748,393,4199,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":["post-972482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-britain","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-apple","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-f1","tag-great-britain","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116604945649605263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}