F1 season pass 2021

[joshyf1]

Will this happen? If so I hope it's not going to cost too much more than £200 as I am on a limited budget as it is

[gavs82008 · Accepted solution]

@joshyf1 

Sorry bud Now TV has ditched the annual passes, most likely due to Covid and the hassle they had with extending passes etc.

Any offers will be based on your account. If you go to “my offers” within the passes section, you’ll see a red banner for “offers”

https://www.nowtv.com/gb/account/passes/my-offers
This will change constantly and most times you check this out the offer will change or just disappear, so take screenshots if you see one that you think is worthwhile.

Also the “offers” part of the main site will show what standard offers are available.

https://www.nowtv.com/offers

[joshyf1]

@gavs82008 

Well if that's true then that's a shame, really hope sky will just let you just subscribe at least to one sports channel one day so you don't at least have to pay for all of them - cheers for the response 👍

[NobleGuy]

I can't understand how they can't offer an F1 pass because of Covid. That's just a blanket excuse for everything at the moment. 

You can find it online if you look for it - I'd prefer to subscribe as I'd like to support F1 and IndyCar, but I won't put money into football. I'm not putting my hard-earned into those pockets.

So it's either an F1 pass for a reasonable price or I'll go elsewhere...
There is a £9.98 pass for a day which might be an option - 20ish races for about £200 isn't too bad, but of course you don't get qualifying.

The options offered on NowTV are poor TBH.

[gavs82008]

@NobleGuy 

The thing is, Now TV even stopped doing annual passes for Entertainment and Cinema. So if Now TV decided to reintroduce annual passes then these 2 should be the only ones they should consider. 

As for F1 only channel. This was mooted over to separate the channels into their own passes as a survey. Which happens often, we get surveys and somethings then take up to a year for anything to happen. 

Sports on demand was mentioned in a Survey in 2018 and only just happened sometime last year. 

[Anonymous User]

@gavs82008 

As above I have asked the question because people say they have heard different than that when they have spoke to customer service. The deals are normally around this time too.

[gavs82008]

@Anonymous User 

Its a case of don’t believe everything you get told unless it shows up on your pass offers. 

My guess is that over time when things get back to normal they might reintroduce 6/12 month pass offers for sports.

[starman73]

they might reintroduce 6/12 month pass offers for sports.

I have 3 three month passes in my voucher area (https://www.nowtv.com/gb/account/passes/my-vouchers) which are a bit of a pain as seasons never last 3, 6 or 9 months.  

From my experience month by month is best; last year I put a three month pass on in late February...

Worse still I did similar with GAAGO and I got next to no value with that as the leagues haven’t resumed this year and all the catch up is removed.

[joshyf1]

Now tv is still better than piracy and f1 tv pro (lots of bugs and requires a vpn) 

I'm still going to pay for now tv but it's a real shame things have to be this way.. 238 for the season if i buy 7 month passes to cover it, or 200 for a whole season pass if they do one is fine but I doubt they will, hopefully they run a small offer (like 3 months for 25£) before bahrain 🙂

[Anonymous User]

To be honest, I agree about the offerings of Sky for us F1 fan's, and it's been like that ever since F1 decided to give Sky exclusive rights to screen all the race weekends for their customers.

[gavs82008]

@Anonymous User 

You are duplicating the exact same post on the thread and across other threads. 

[Saint1976]

@gavs82008 the word you're looking for is 'spamming'. The service they're mentioning only launched 2 weeks ago so there's no way they've been saving money! No way I'd be sharing my account with a stranger online!

 

@Simon-J 

[Anonymous User]

Well my £20 one month "membership" (plus £3 for HD) ends on Monday morning, the day after the Austrian GP as planned.

I've seen 4 race weekends live with excellent picture quality and no streaming issues.

(My ISP is NOT Sky or Now)

On a price per race basis, that's £5.75 per race weekend in HD - absolutely fine with that!

£34 per month from here on plus another £5 for HD.

£39 per month when I only want F1 ???  One word - NO !!!

[Anonymous User]

… there is an email offer…

NOW Sports Membership offer, £19.97 a month for 3 months: Offer ends 13/07/2021. ‘Over 40% saving’ is against the price of the NOW Sports Membership at full price (£33.99 a month). Membership auto renews at standard price after 3 months unless cancelled (currently £33.99 a month). You can cancel anytime. Offer not available to customers with a NOW Sports Membership, unless you are in the last 30 days of your offer. Offer lost if you cancel your NOW Sports Membership before the last month of the offer period. One offer code per person and can only be used once. There is no cash alternative to the code, all codes are non-refundable and non-transferable.

[Anonymous User]

Sorry Bud in that case it is too expensive this year to watch every race. The end of the SkyF1 contact can not come soon enough.

[Enapace]

@Anonymous User 

Maybe i am weird but I really think the Sky F1 team has really done a excellent job on commentating and the extra shows etc they produce. I think the Sky F1 deal has been good for F1 fans in U.K. yes we have had to pay but then you have to pay for any Sports Coverage really in the U.K. 

[Anonymous User]

Yeah but not £35 a month good. The race feed comes direct from F1 anyway, it's just commentary and the before and after which is nice but I could live without......Sky and Now quite simply charge too much..... three times the price of Amazon Prime and Netflix is just a joke frankly especially when millions of people are struggling after the past year. 

[Saint1976]

@Anonymous User while I appreciate some people only want to watch the F1, the £33 a month is for 11 channels of sport not one.

As for comparing NowTV with Amazon and Netflix, this comes up all the time.

Netflix don't show live content let alone live sport so no comparison.

Amazon Prime Video has very little in the way of live sport in comparison to NowTv. They also have in excess of 100 million subscribers and with all the other business interests Amazon has, they can afford to offer things at a much lower price. You'll also notice Amazon charges extra for add on channels (they've just purchased the rights to La Liga TV and charge £7 a month extra for it) so you can easily go from £8 a month to £30+ a month.

[Anonymous User]

Good for Sky and it's 10 channels of sport I have no interest in watching. You can defend all you want but Sky/Now have a doomed economic model that is becoming too expensive for hundreds of thousands of previous customers. F1 audiences are massively down.

[starman73]

current offer...

Save over 25%: Compared to standard Sky Sports Month Pass price (£33.99pm). Sky Sports Month Pass £25 a month for 3 months: Offer ends 08/03/2021. When offer period ends, Sky Sports Month Pass auto-renews at £33.99 unless cancelled. You can cancel anytime. Offer not available to customers with an active Sky Sports Month Pass, unless you are in the last 30 days of your current offer. Offer lost if you cancel your Sky Sports Month Pass before the last month of the offer period

i suspect the current multiple pass offering from Now TV is doomed.  Entertainment just about holds it own with Amazon, Netflix and Disney, but due to lack of new movies Cinema is not particularly compelling.  They should be combined.

Sport has a nice monopoly on certain events and enthusiasts like me will pay for the passes even if it’s just to watch a hurling game during the summer.

The good thing for F1 fans is they have a 24/7 channel for their money and don’t have to get any other subscriptions.  I pay for a GAA dedicated channel (GAAGO) but still have to pay for the odd exclusive game on Sky.  Football is worse having three different providers.

[goggleKev]

Look out for offers on the 25th march! a little birdy has told me there will be an offer of £25 pm for 6 months sports pass which they did last year after the F1 pass balls up!!!