As the title says. Awful news. Just hope the live satelitte coverage continues on another channel..
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As the title says. Awful news. Just hope the live satelitte coverage continues on another channel..
Not good news at all, hopefully the coverage could be broadcast in full on one of the other itv channels, such as ITV 2 or 3 instead. (have we got a source on this as well? )
what, what, what, if true this is bad news unless the coverage is going somewhere else accessable? i'm hoping for ITV2/3/4?
There is nothing on their website about this.
Story is in Motorsport News today.
Does it give a reason???
That means us continentals won't be able to see it anymore I suppose :mad:
This is pretty bad, I loved watching the support races live and the touring cars too. It really made for a great Sunday of TV action.
Nooooooooo! :(
Wasn't ITV 4 originally supposed to be their sports channel? Seeing as they already show the main races on ITV1, perhaps they could show all the supports on ITV4.
*crosses fingers and gets down on prayer mat* :p :
that is poor not showing it such good racing to watch.
supose they want to show some other c*** to make up for it.
Probably F1 or some other cr4p.
Wonder wether Eurosport will get it as they broadcast WTCC??? cant beleive it though i got sky purposely to watch the whole Championship live I'm gutted...
Another bit of bad news about 2007.....
Hopefully ITV4 will pick it up or something.
that is bad news, can see the sky subscription getting cancelled when my year is up
I hope ITV do live coverage of it either on ITV2/3/4 or on Men and Motors because I believe they own that.
I would prefer it on freeview though as I don't have sky but I am planning to get a freeview HDD so I could record it all on there.
Alan gow says he is not worried at all by this, so he obviously has other deals on the table.
The exclusive to show all the races from the weekends live will definately get channels queing up!
Before people start slinging mud as they have been doing on the BTCC.Net site, I suggest you read what Alan Gow has posted!
Allow me to put some totally unfounded speculation to rest;
1. The decision not to continue for 2007 was entirely that of MotorsTV. We would have been very happy to continue our relationship with them, on exactly the same basis that has existed from some years.
2. We would not, and did not, charge MotorsTV any form of rights fee (or similar) to show the events...it was entirely free of charge to them, in that respect. As is normal, MotorsTV's financial outlay was for the extra production costs and satellite up-link needed to produce their own program.
3. ITV and ourselves were both fully supportive for the MotorsTV programming to continue, on exactly the same basis as previously.
There was/is absolutely no problem in the relationship between MotorsTV and/or ourselves and/or ITV....they merely decided that they wished to take their programming schedules in a different direction, and we have to respect their decision.
But for some people to speculate that either TOCA and/or ITV had, in some way, made it more difficult and/or more expensive for MotorsTV to continue is most unfair and totally incorrect.
this is a very sad news, I like BTCC and it will be painfull for me not seeing it next year on Motors !!
until the whole itv network switches to digital (because all the analogue transmitters are switched off which is still some years away) there will still be a lot of people who will only be able (or willing) to watch the 5 basic terrestrial channels. moving the whole btcc show to itv 2,3 or4 in the near future therefore seems highly unlikely to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by nicemms
That's a nightmare. That'd be the Sky box out the window if I wasn't hooked on DTM/V8s by this point. Hopefully ITV has (at least) the same coverage as last year.
Someone mentioned on e of the digital ITV channels. Hopefully they might show the first 2 live on ITV4 or something then do the usual on ITV1. Please?
I would go mad if it was only on ITV4 because I only have terrestrial tv but if they showed it on both, then it would be good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doug
To be fair, if you've only got terrestrial then you're not missing out due to Motors' decision.
This is very bad news! I like watching all the support races aswell as the BTCC but I cant see ITV or any other channel showing all of these only the BTCC and ITV'S coverage last year wasn't that good only really showing one race live. It looks like I will have to go to more meetings next year so that I can watch the whole package!
Thats what most true Motor Racing entusiasts do!Quote:
Originally Posted by jodi
It's awful news! This year I followed live about a third of the rounds on Motors TV and I watched the rest of them delayed or on the next day (often full-coverage replay). How am I supposed to know who's hot and who's not next year in BTCC without actually watching the races? Attending the meetings is quite frankly out of the question for me in 2007...
ITV4 is available on freeview - you can pickup freeview boxes for £20.Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain VXR
Personally (for this reasopn) I's be very pleased if wider BTCC / support coverage was available on ITV4 but I dont see it happening. ITV4 is not well known for its sports coverage - possibly because it doesnt normally do much...?
thats all very well for some, i did get to all but 3 rounds (knockhill, Silverstone and Mondello) a couple of years back, and still try to get to a round every year, but then i was single. when living with someone who is not a motorsport fan and having a less than a year old baby it makes it very difficult to afford/get to most meetings and there are a lot of us true motor racing enthusiasts for whom Motors TV coverage was a godsend.Quote:
Originally Posted by PDS
i hope that the slack does get picked up by one of the ITV 2/3/4 chanles, that would seem to make sense
It would be a shame. I don't get to many BTCC meetings, so the Motors TV coverage was great, if a little shabby.
...Apart from WRC, Champions League and UEFA Cup football, and Boxing.Quote:
Originally Posted by thompp
WHAT? (Throws temper tantrum)
The directors of Motors TV really are the biggest load of f***ing c***s ever.
:mad: :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire :mad:
Is Eurosport available on Freeview? The only way I get it is on satellite, and it is in German so it is not excactly easy to hear what the WTCC commentaters are saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by thompp
Eurosport isn't available on freeview but you can get it on Top-up TV. You need to make sure that your freeview box or Digital TV is compatible. (mine isn't)Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain VXR
Is it the whole TOCA events that have been dropped by MOTORS TV or just the BTCC?
If so what are they going to show on Sundays? DTM for 10 hours?
Probably something crap like F1 testing.
So Motors drop the BTCC coverage (which everyone who didn't have access to the channel whinged and moaned about) and now they're the bad guys? :confused:
I expect that a lot of the negative comments here are because of the lack of confirmed entry news actually coming out at the moment....
:( not everyone can get free view, im in east devon and we are still waiting
It is not going to be on ITV3 or ITV4 because both channels only start at 6pm each night.
ITV3 is 24 hours.
ITV4 isn't 24 hours at the moment, but will be extending hours in 2007.
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Originally Posted by tintin
In that case it might be on ITV3 or ITV4 as both channels are 24hours :D
This is crap :mad:
Is it worth starting a petition or something, really should have live coverage!