BBC vs Sky - The Story so Far

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Originally Posted by henners88

We did have a decade or so of the coverage being on ITV so we had adverts every 15 to 20 minutes throughout the race then. Obviously this was fazed out with the BBC and thankfully now we don't have to put up with adverts during the build up and post race either. How long before Sky sneak an advert in during the race? They don't tend to do it with football but F1 doesn't have a break after 45 minutes either. I think in the coming years when they feel they can get away with it, they will. At the start a lot of effort was put into tempting viewers across and this clearly hasn't worked as well as they'd hoped. Now they can relax and merge the channel in with other sports and advertising comes hand in hand with that.

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I can't see your problem with adverts on Sky - there aren't any during the race and I'm not aware of any plans to have them.

Besides which - given the options you have for viewing ie 6 in-cars and timing screens - even if they did put adverts in the main race coverage, and I'm pretty confident it won't happen, then just switch to an in-car for two minutes.

There's loads and loads of rubbish on BBC that I have absolutely no interest in but have to pay my licence fee, whereas a lot of people who like West-benders, Splank, and Dancing on Factor 10 or whatever it is probably resented having F1 clogging up their soaps and game shows for hours on Sunday. At least we now have a choice.

If I wasn't forced to by law I'd probably stop paying for the BBC and just stick to Sky for the sports

WT

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Originally Posted by steveaki13

This was always the worry with Sky getting F1.

They tried (and failed) to make us believe they wouldn't do this and wow after one year they have. Next season you will have ads in race and the year after have to pay extra on top of your sports package.

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There's no way Sky would be able to charge extra above the Sports package for F1 - just look at the viewing figures, they would be even lower as not that many people would take it up. Sky Sports is basically centred around Premiership Football. Everything else, cricket, golf etc is just filling in the time between the football matches.

F1 on Sky was pretty unplanned, I don't think they bid for it the last time the contract was up for tender it was just the BBC suddenly wanting to cut a big chunk of their expenditure.

I see that Jake Humphrey is going to get £750k pa for fronting BT's Football next season and that allows him to stay at home with his family rather than lots of time away - makes you wonder what the Beeb were paying him for F1....

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Originally Posted by Wasted Talent

I can't see your problem with adverts on Sky - there aren't any during the race and I'm not aware of any plans to have them.

Besides which - given the options you have for viewing ie 6 in-cars and timing screens - even if they did put adverts in the main race coverage, and I'm pretty confident it won't happen, then just switch to an in-car for two minutes.

There's loads and loads of rubbish on BBC that I have absolutely no interest in but have to pay my licence fee, whereas a lot of people who like West-benders, Splank, and Dancing on Factor 10 or whatever it is probably resented having F1 clogging up their soaps and game shows for hours on Sunday. At least we now have a choice.

If I wasn't forced to by law I'd probably stop paying for the BBC and just stick to Sky for the sports

WT

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I didn't say they had adverts during the races now, I speculated about them coming in in future in relation to them going back on an earlier promise not to have the F1 channel as part of their sports package. The bottom line is if you are paying £30 or so a month for a channel, they really shouldn't be interrupted by adverts even if you could switch to an onboard camera for two minutes. That is unacceptable in the extreme, and for the sake of those of you who have bought Sky I hope it doesn't happen. I'm not bothered really just being polite. There is loads of crap on the BBC but I watch very little TV in any case, so what I do watch is being affected. I'm not really getting a return on my money and I'm considering not paying my license fee when I eventually move in to my new house as prosecution is almost impossible. I can't really agree on the 'at least we get a choice' line because I simply don't. My only choice is the BBC and its reduced coverage for half the season, with the alternative simply not being worth the price they charge. Its a no win situation for some of us.

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Originally Posted by henners88

I'm considering not paying my license fee when I eventually move in to my new house as prosecution is almost impossible.

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But Henners there are eyes and ears everywhere. :uhoh:

My brother will tell you they will knock on your door and threaten legal action, but if they can't prove you own a TV its a little difficult. After 21 years of trying he has still not gone to court, but I'm generally more honest than him :)

Jake wouldn't have been getting anywhere near £750k I wouldn't have thought.

The Beeb were paying Chris Moyles more but it depends when the contract was negotiated.

Rumours spreading on the web that Georgie Thompson is being dumped from Sky.

Did a decent job for the F1 Show but won't be missed on weekends unless you're desperate to slap the salami post-race.

She never seemed like she knew what she was talking about nor cared. Could be replaced by anyone.

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Originally Posted by wedge

Did a decent job for the F1 Show but won't be missed on weekends unless you're desperate to slap the salami post-race.

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Oh yer that reminds me. Erm how do you spell her name again. ;)