So you believe it would be wrong for me to suggest in the same statement that I both believe smoking cannabis to be OK and assault not?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
And was what I said really 'very outspoken' about phone hacking? I think not.
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So you believe it would be wrong for me to suggest in the same statement that I both believe smoking cannabis to be OK and assault not?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
And was what I said really 'very outspoken' about phone hacking? I think not.
Looks like most of the money they're saving from F1 will have to go on extra staff to moderate the deluge of comments on BBC blogs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dave B
Very dissapointed to hear about this, the BBC is obviously going downhill. but if they cant afford it....
Watch Brundle and Coulthard jump ship to Sky.
BBC will only be showing live races on the bbc website so i guess they will now use the 5 live commentators.
Thoroughly disappointed in this, what is the point of watching half a season? And note the BBC has only confirmed the British, Monaco and "final" GP - I wouldn't be surprised to find out the contract includes such thrillers as Barcelona, Valencia, Singapore...
I cannot afford £600 a year to watch ten races on Sky, that's the best part of two months rent for me, or half the year's council tax, or half the car insurance. I imagine more people are on even tighter budgets than that.
The thing that bothers me most of all is the constant promises about F1 staying on free to air - that promise was comprehensively broken today with this announcement. And what is the BBC going to replace it with? What are they going to find that will draw in six million viewers on a Sunday lunchtime? We pay a licence fee and the BBC should provide what viewers want, and the figures say the public wants F1!
Really bad day for F1 viewers, and could be the start of a very slippery slope for F1 as a whole. Get rid of Ecclestone, now, before the sport is totally torn apart. :down:
My solution is simple. No BBC TV between 0900 and 1300, except in the case of major events. Then off again until the 1800 news. Funding problems solved.Quote:
Originally Posted by tfp
Am too angry to type right now. Just as F1 had found its feet again, Bernie's done a deal that will guarantee a huge drop in viewers and therefore overall interest in one of the sport's most important markets. Congratulations. So, which big-name sponsor/manufacturer will walk first?
Well, well, well...after speaking to Bernie Martin Whitmarsh says early indications about the detail of the deal are encouraging for teams.
Whitmarsh sees positives in Sky deal as more details emerge - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.comQuote:
"Bernie assured me, and I asked him several times, the deferred coverage will not be highlights, it will be a full race."
Meanwhile:https://twitter.com/#!/NobleF1/status/96983570597425152Quote:
Guess who said this back in May?..."Sky is doing an incredible job but if you look at their audience they are nowhere. With these figures it would be almost impossible for teams to find sponsors. That would be suicidal."
That would be Bernie:http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/05/07/b...-their-senses/Quote:
“Murdoch hasn’t got anything really big to drive their TV audiences and Formula One would be good for that. They have been trying to buy the TV rights from us for a long time, but we won’t because they are not free-to-air television broadcasters. They are a subscription service.
“Very recently they wanted to do something in Germany, in the UK and in Italy, where they are, but we couldn’t do it. Sky is doing an incredible job but if you look at their audience they are nowhere. With these figures it would be almost impossible for teams to find sponsors. That would be suicidal.”
Sky should get Jim Rosental to present, James Allen to commentate and Mark "Billy" Blundell to summarise.
I've got SKy TV because pretty well everything I want to watch is on Sky- whether that be sports (tennis, Indy Car, NASCAR) or TV series- ok I could probably download most of it from the web, but I can't be arsed to do thatQuote:
Originally Posted by AndySpeed
so in that sense having F1 on Sky doesn't make a huge difference to me. The only way i can have TV is either through Sky or through Virgin as I don't have a TV aerial. That said I would have Sky anyway- I'm not pro-Murdoch by any means, I long ago accepted that if I wanted to follow the sports I enjoy (and Sky do provide excellent coverage of sport) then I'd have to pay for it.
However I don't think it's a good move for F1 in general- casual viewers will lose interest if only half the races are broadcast- as evidenced by some of the reaction here. I know people who are huge F1 fans but don't have and will not get Sky. I really don't see how this is good for F1- other than Bernie making more money.
Equally clearly the Beeb couldn't afford to continue by itself (although perhaps culling some of the less popular shows might have been the way to go) so what's the alternative- turning it back into the Lewis Hamilton show on ITV again- or Ch4 and Ch5 who have no real track record with these kind of things. The only other alternative I would have thought would have been Eurosport (which I think is on Freeview?)- they already show GP3, GP2, Porsche Supercup- they did a good job with it back in the 90's