Thought I'd just put a post together since Sunday nights coverage sent my phones battery into meltdown with twitter mentions. These comments are observations with a bit of knowledge of the industry, not fact or comment from BT Sport / ESPN UK. That and 140 characters is easily lost in the timeline.
The UK race coverage was due to end at 22:30, NCAA basketball was due to take over at this point. Due to the (very) high number of caution periods early in the race, the race over ran by approximately part of 30 minutes.
At this point, whenever the US went to commercial break, instead of taking the breaks here, ESPN UK cut to the basketball game they were due to cover. These are 'Live Look Ins'. So for the most part, in the last 20 laps we didn't actually miss much that we wouldn't have seen anyway. It wasn't perfect or seamless, but this happens more than you realise if you have the US stream on at the same time, they are late back from UK breaks, it is an unfortunate pitfall of taking international feeds.
The feed ESPN UK take is a direct feed of ABC, so when they go 'side by side', we have to go to adverts as they can't broadcast US commercials over here. Occasionally this slips, you may have seen adverts for pancakes, I think, and the ABC Indy 500 coverage.
As for the post race, it was on network TV in the US so traditionally very little, and the main race had finished, I'd expect that to be cut to go to the next live sporting event.
I would say from my personal opinion, they could have done with a small ticker or on screen graphic saying 'Indycar will return shortly' or something to that effect just to inform viewers that they hadn't abandoned the race, which they haven't done since switching over from Sky Sports in 2013.
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George Day
31/3/2015 12:54:09
During the 2014 Indy 500 they still kept the feed on and it was the cameras not the adverts. I suppose this was a Indy 500 thing and not something that would normally happen. It was during the Motorsports tonight special.
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Adrian
31/3/2015 12:55:30
They had a full production company for the 500, not just someone flicking a switch with the feed.
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Stu
31/3/2015 13:03:58
I watched the race back today on a popular video file sharing web site, which was from a Russian (I think?) channel which carried on showing the action during US ad breaks minus US commentators. I've always been lead to believe this is the international feed.
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Adrian
31/3/2015 13:07:14
I'd love the minus WAGs feed! That probably is the international feed but BT can't just second guess when they cut to the other halfs, would look dreadful. As for the Russian.. We get I best can describe as a stream of the ABC Chanel
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Stu
31/3/2015 13:41:28
What I mean is, why can't we have the international feed? As that is what's it for, I would think?
Malcolm Brierley
31/3/2015 15:18:08
Totally missed the contact between Juan and power. No replays so must have missed some live feed. I will be streaming races in future via unofficial sites to get side by side coverage. It was a college basketball game so very low ranking. Too many memories of rubbish Eurosport coverage came flooiding back. Getting live US feed seems the only way to watch the race as too few replays of stuff that US viewers got to see during the ads
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Adrian
31/3/2015 15:21:51
I always have one up on the laptop just in case. their commentators missed so much too, jpm beating power out of the pits, apparently a kanaan pit stop was more interesting
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Garry
1/4/2015 02:49:18
Sky planner didn't get adjusted to the overrun so last 20 laps didn't record. Useless.
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Adrian
1/4/2015 02:57:54
Im with Virgin so can't account for Sky, but when recording with TiVo you have the option to add 1 hour to live shows, they wont add on automatically, there are repeats every day on ESPN worth looking out for
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