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Originally Posted by BDunnell
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Agreed. Personally I think it's a load of bull poo poo'sQuote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
in an earlier post i mentioned costs. on bbc teletext a LABOUR mp, andrew mackinlay, has questioned the costs and said editors should have probed senior managers for details. he also said the announcement was too celebratory and that the money should have been spent on REAL sports.
didn't bernie give the labour party a large sum of money?
A long time ago, and he got the money back, albeit in return for the ban on tobacco advertising being delayed. I don't think this has anything to do with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by acorn
I like the idea of combining Top Gear and F1, but maybe as an extra feature. It would bring a new audience to F1. However, they obviously shouldn't let the F1 coverage turn into a Top Gear joke.
As for commentators, Cox and Brundle would be better than what we have now. Hopefully they don't get Ben Edwards, not because he's bad (he's good), but because I want him for the BTCC.
Will They Show All Of Live Qualifying?
someone start a petiton to stop Richard Hammond becoming the presenter, cant stand the little squirt.
BBC will be showing live qualifying.
Extra recorded and Live action will be available via the red button(uk people know what that means)
Every single grandprix will be availbable to see again via the BBCIplayer for 7 days after the race.
More To The Point Will They Capitalise Every Word!Quote:
Originally Posted by FIA
A large consensus for Charlie Cox. For some reason I think he's better suited to Touring cars.
What I do like about JA is the geeky insights he picks up on and which Martin Brundle can't help agreeing these days, but then again some people think F1 is far too technical sport for most people to enjoy.
The geeky insights that JA picks up on are usually things that he stole from Martin Brundle in the last race.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
No, it's usually over the course of the weekend. JA has a good eye for detail. I enjoy reading his stuff, such as this every Friday:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=42072
There isn't much in that link that any other F1 fan in Malaysia couldn't tell you. He just seems like JA states the obvious all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
James Allen's prediction - 'Ferrari will bounce back here because they have to, but Hamilton will again be very hard to beat.'
You don't say! :rolleyes:
Do most fans know what is going on during the practice sessions or do they go on the quickest lap times set? Do most fans have access to team members to acquire additional information from, to analyse and interpret from?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
To say he states the obvious, well isn't it obvious not much has changed in 12 months and we the same pattern emerging between Ferrari and McLaren?
To the haters who say James Allen has no clue and states the obvious is harsh attacking a man who worked for Autosport, ESPN, ITV, written biographies on Mansell and Schumacher. Apart from charismatic voice, what else is missing in his CV. Driving the damn thing? Oh wait, we've got Brundle for that one.
The BBC only started covering every qualifying session live in its last two years when they moved from two sessions to one hour long session. Even then they did not always show the whole thing live . quite often the would only join about 20 minutes in. It was particularly infuriating as they were not covering other live sport... just reading out results from others.
Used to be in the early 90s there was no race build up. you joined during the formation lap. There were certainly no on camera presenters and no grid walk and there was no detailed analysis after the race.
That started at overseas GPs in 1994, at Imola. This proved to be a blessing as it meant the BBC was able to cut back to Steve Rider in the pits after Senna's accident, otherwise everyone would have had to have watched the rather intrusive scenes of the crash scene that the main feed was showing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I'm really surprised to see praise for Charlie Cox, he (& Steve Parrish) get so much flak for their Moto GP commentary.
I don't like the sound of that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Really? I haven't actually watched the CBBC or Cbeebies channels, so I have a good excuse for my ignorance :p : But maybe the BBC will show it on CBBC, it could be part of the BBC's plan to bring in new viewers, catch them while they're young :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Somebody
As much as I love Top Gear I'm hoping any rumours of Clarkson, Hammond and May doing anything with the F1 show are just an early April Fools joke.
Glad to hear its going back to the Beeb interms of getting rid of irritating ad breaks... I hope they hang on to Martin though, and Louise too in terms of the team. I won't be sad to see James Alan go though...
It would be awful. What ITV have is decent, so I hope the BBC don't mess it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Charlie Cox is too cocky.
Make Brundle the main commentator now.
Hamster as a presenter? No.
That's about as annoying as Paul King in the WRC.
I cannot stand that patronizing voice.
ITV line-up is great
Ah, that must be the nostalgia cake.Quote:
Originally Posted by THE_LIBERATOR
Because there is no way in the world they should let him back near a microphone.
I mean Murray's a legend and all but can we PLEASE leave him in peace and drop this topic??
He was pretty much past it even in the 1990's. At the '06 and '07 OzGP's he was making three times the number of mistakes that Allen would be absolutely crucified for, despite not even being the main commentator.
Did Hamilton got the ratings up or not? Or is this due to many races not broadcasting on prime time?
ITV decided to let go in the middle of a 5 year contract.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daika
No-one knows why ITV did this and how much the BBC pay to buy out the contract.
The Brazilian GP got the highest UK ratings for any sporting event of last year. I'm not sure about the rest, but ITV has said that in general the ratings weren't brilliant. The message it has been trying to put across is that the ratings still didn't justify the outlay, but I think there is a bit more to this than meets the eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daika
mmm well good on the BBC for getting it back- wonder whether BTCC will follow suit in a year or so- I wonder whether ITV's lack of interactive/HD was part of the issue??
having watched some of todays Malaysian GP (and slept through the second half of it) I'm hoping that the Beeb will get rid of James Allen- for years he wittered on endlessly about his beloved Schumi and now all he can talk about is Lewis Hamilton (whether he's a factor in the race or not)- there are 21 other drivers out there you know- and 3 of them beat Hamilton today
go Kimi!!!!!!!!!!!
While it would be great to lose the adverts I am a little cautious about this. I think that ITV's coverage is, in general, really good. It's pretty much the only thing that ITV still does well, the majority of its other output has become incredibly low-brow in the past few years. Also, ITV have a lot of channels to mess with so that races and even qualifying are now all broadcast live at least somwhere. The BBC has the same number of channels but neither start until 7PM, and both are frankly under threat due to the criticism received from cutbacks that the BBC have made in other areas. I really hope that they do broadcast qualifying in full and they don't have someone like Gary Lineker commentating. The BBC made a complete hash of the ChampCar races that they broadcast a few years ago.
But at least the old Fleetwood Mac theme will be back, ITV's themes change every other year and each is a little bit worse than the one before. The graphics on the credits are incredibly cheesy too. I can't help but laugh at that bit with Coulthard and the roulette wheel.
Will the Positions Graphics change?
Once again the GP had adverts adverts adverts, and the constant James Alan Lewis Hamilton love fest is doing my head in as is Hamiltons father.
Don't ITV listen to the views of people? And another thing- what happened to Heikki in the press conference? They just left it without hearing from him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuartf12007
As a positive they didn't show Lewis' dad at all during the GP coverage! Lifes little gems!Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuartf12007
Be good to see it on the BBC, just for the theme tune :D which i'm hoping they will bring back.
The position graphics are part of the TV feed ITV gets so they will not change.
I think there is little danger of the qualifying sessions not being shown live.
In 1996, the last year the BBC had F1 coverage, every qualifying session was shown live on BBC1 or BBC2, why should they do anything worse then they did before?
As someone said earlier before then, qualifying coverage was often only the last ten or twenty minutes, but the old 2 day format used before 1996 was not TV friendly. If Friday was dry and Saturday wet nobody had any chance of beating their time so hardly anyone would go out.