TEN CEO revs up at Formula One
New TEN CEO Hamish McLennan visited TEN's broadcast of the Grand Prix yesterday, just a day before starting work in his new role.
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New TEN CEO Hamish McLennan (pictured left) visited TEN’s broadcast of the Formula One Australian Grand Prix yesterday, just a day before starting work in his new role.
McLennan joined with interim CEO Russel Howcroft, TEN execs, sponsors and personalities at Albert Park yesterday.
 
Across the weekend plenty of TEN stars were in attendance including Charlie Pickering, Carrie Bickmore, Dr. Chris Brown, Amanda Keller, Lisa McCune, Hamish Macdonald, Magdalena Roze, ‘Lehmo’, Natarsha Belling ,Steve Quartermain, Matt Le Nevez, Richard Davies, Angela Bishop, Mike Larkan, Brad McEwan, Barry DuBois and even  Seven’s Kerri-Anne Kennerley.
One of the hits of TEN’s broadcast was the first Grand Prix Breakfast hosted by Steve Quartermain and Natarsha Belling at Crown.
The three hour broadcast featured a plethora of F1 drivers including Jenson Button and celebrities including Magdalena Roze, Anna Meares, Chris Hoy with performances by Jimmy Barnes, Ricki Lee and Cirque De Soleil.
The idea for the event came from Dave Barham in TEN Sport and the AGPC. It went down so well with drivers that there is already talk of  rolling them out at each GP this year, potentially starting with Malaysia in 2 weeks time.
 
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8 Responses
@Ed
Agreed as they didn’t do much commercials then what 7 does with the V8s or focus on like CL or JW that much at all that I saw over the weekend
While at times the coverage may be a bit too focused on celebrities and the like, in general Ten do a great job covering the Australian GP weekend.
TEN was superb at broadcasting V8s as it truly stuffs Channel 7 up but I think it’s V8 Supercars that do V8s, F1 is produced by FOM as SS pointed out and rest were done by TEN which it truly didn’t focus on like CL and JW but I think they should be the “Home of Motorsport”
@laurie – the race, qualy, practice, and some of the pit lane footage was from the world feed produced by FOM. The rest was Network Ten.
TEN did a lot in terms of its on-site hosting, I had a first-hand look. But it’s common to take general feed for international sports.
Not sure Ten did the broadcast like V8 does for Seven they just get the picture from F1 stand to be corrected 😉
A couple of things. The Malaysian GP starts this week (first two practice sessions on friday). I very much doubt they will have something similar given the amount of work required to organise such an event. Although something like the GP breakfast would probably go down well at the canadian GP or the Austin GP. I’m pretty sure Lachlan Murdoch was also there (although mainly for skysports if any business was to be done)
And it was actually in very good HD on ONE.
But I wonder how many people watched that. I for one just don’t expect to see any decent HD on FTA TV.