F1 going to Sky

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Originally Posted by Mark

Can we pretend that the non BBC races don't exist and have a 10 race championship?

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Great idea!

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Originally Posted by Mark

Can we pretend that the non BBC races don't exist and have a 10 race championship?

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:laugh:

Good news IMHO. Gives the WRC a chance of actually getting some viewers and gaining traction....

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Originally Posted by christophulus

Bernard has lost the plot:



Bernie Ecclestone says Sky pay-to-view TV deal will grow F1's audience - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com

Everyone who has Sky already has the BBC, so there is no way the viewing figures are going to grow! It's transmitting to the same size audience for half the races, and just ten million viewers for the other half. And that's ten million with Sky, not necessarily Sky Sports. If I can't watch the race live I'm not interested, I don't want to watch the race later (full re-run or otherwise) once I've found out what the result was.

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Its the bit where he says "it will probably be more exciting than watching the races live half of the time" That gets me...He puts down his own sport, I just dont understand it. And yeah, I wont watch the races unless theyre live either. Not least because I'll probably have already looked up the result on the internet.

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Originally Posted by tfp

Its the bit where he says "it will probably be more exciting than watching the races live half of the time" That gets me...He puts down his own sport, I just dont understand it. And yeah, I wont watch the races unless theyre live either. Not least because I'll probably have already looked up the result on the internet.

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I was wondering how the poison dwarf was going to spin it, but even I didn't think he would stoop so low as to diss his own sport. F**k him!

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Originally Posted by Sonic

I was wondering how the poison dwarf was going to spin it, but even I didn't think he would stoop so low as to diss his own sport. F**k him!

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He doesn't care, why not say it if it makes him more money.

From a personal point of view, I love Football and Cricket and already have sky sports so I will be able to watch F1 still and I am glad there will be no ad breaks.

But despite all this I am pretty outraged that F1 is going to sky.

The viewing will plummit as no casual viewer will ever watch and many of you great and ardent fans won't or cant watch it, so who is F1 going to have watch it on the whole.

About 500 people at times by the sound of it.

Bernie is ruining F1 in many ways and this is just another example of it.

It stinks, I hope we can all still manage to watch the sport we love some how.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Good news IMHO. Gives the WRC a chance of actually getting some viewers and gaining traction....

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Only if NorthOne are clever - and realise there's a gap to be filled........

As for the news, I'm not as mad as I thought I'd be - which shows how much F1 has lost it's hold on me in the last 5-10 years. In fact, F1 can now join the rest of Motorsport as a niche/minority sport....
Regarding the BBC - simply, not fit for purpose: think back to the 80's- mid 90's and the BBC Sport output: every weekend there was sport on the Beeb; Grandstand, Sunday Grandstand, Sport on Friday, Sportsnight, etc In fact, lots of minority/niche sports were covered, which is what the BBC should be covering. Where has it all gone? I thought the BBC was public service provider - which means a wide variety of programmes - and importantly, no chasing ratings. They really are a law unto themselves - £900M on a pointless move to Salford, 200 people the other day covering the 'Olympic 1 year to go' party.
What we can expect now on a Sunday lunchtime is another pointless repeat of Kids cooking pets, or Cash in my underpants.........

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Originally Posted by aki13

He doesn't care, why not say it if it makes him more money.

From a personal point of view, I love Football and Cricket and already have sky sports so I will be able to watch F1 still and I am glad there will be no ad breaks.

But despite all this I am pretty outraged that F1 is going to sky.

The viewing will plummit as no casual viewer will ever watch and many of you great and ardent fans won't or cant watch it, so who is F1 going to have watch it on the whole.

About 500 people at times by the sound of it.

Bernie is ruining F1 in many ways and this is just another example of it.

It stinks, I hope we can all still manage to watch the sport we love some how.

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I think likening the F1 move with cricket is very apt. Cricket's appeal has suffered badly since terrestrial TV got the boot - and I think F1 will suffer the same.

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Originally Posted by Daniel

Good news IMHO. Gives the WRC a chance of actually getting some viewers and gaining traction....

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You wouldn't be saying that to be deliberately contrary, would you?

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Originally Posted by AndyRAC

Only if NorthOne are clever - and realise there's a gap to be filled........

As for the news, I'm not as mad as I thought I'd be - which shows how much F1 has lost it's hold on me in the last 5-10 years. In fact, F1 can now join the rest of Motorsport as a niche/minority sport....
Regarding the BBC - simply, not fit for purpose: think back to the 80's- mid 90's and the BBC Sport output: every weekend there was sport on the Beeb; Grandstand, Sunday Grandstand, Sport on Friday, Sportsnight, etc In fact, lots of minority/niche sports were covered, which is what the BBC should be covering. Where has it all gone? I thought the BBC was public service provider - which means a wide variety of programmes - and importantly, no chasing ratings. They really are a law unto themselves - £900M on a pointless move to Salford, 200 people the other day covering the 'Olympic 1 year to go' party.
What we can expect now on a Sunday lunchtime is another pointless repeat of Kids cooking pets, or Cash in my underpants.........

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It's not all the BBC's fault, to be fair. The loss of sports rights has been down in part to outside commercial influences, and the move to Salford, while utterly pointless and counter-productive, is being made in an effort to placate certain misguided critics. The absurd amount of coverage, which in no sense was news, given to the 'one year to go' thing is less excusable.

I just wish the BBC could cease constantly having to apologise for itself, but as long as the Daily Mail and other forces of conservatism exist this will never be the case.