He makes some very good points - sadly, his pleas will fall on deaf ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah
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He makes some very good points - sadly, his pleas will fall on deaf ears.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah
He's a bit idealistic with BBC & grassroots motorsport.
F3 is on Ch4 & Motors TV; ITV is committed to the TOCA package.
GP2 highlights arguably should have been shown.
Sports broadcasting has completely changed on the BBC. As Ryder should know, Grandstand is dead and buried and only way to for motorsport coverage brought back is something like Top Gear Motorsport - even that is now means completely different these days ie. pi55ing about in an airfield.
The other thing is Bernie is strictly F1 these days. Gone are the days when he dabbled with WSC, FIA GT, DTM/ITC.
James Allen's interview with Bruno Senna for 5Live
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Can't wait to watch half the races lol
I think they've put together a very strong line up of presenters considering several have defected to Sky. I'll have to see how I get on with delayed highlights though, not sure how I can go the whole day on Sunday without knowing the result!
Been looking forward to Gary Anderson but so far I'm disappointed. I've never seen the Irish/RTE coverage but Anderson so far comes across like a boring lecturer. Mike Gascoyne for instance has a bright future with TV work.
BBC Coverage for Australia:
Qualifying:
Sat 17th Mar 13.00 - 14.15 Highlights
Race
Sun 18th Mar 14.45 - 16.45 Highlights
Tonight Tuesday 6th March 10.35 BBC1
Racing with the Hamiltons;
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An interesting choice as James Allen's co-commentator on Radio 5 Live — Jaime Algersuari.
Jaime Alguersuari joins BBC Radio 5 Live commentary team - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com
Goodness knows how this pairing will turn out.
FP should be fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Hopefully it will be James Hunt all over again:
"and there goes that Swiss S.O.B. good for nothing who stole my seat. It should have been me, ME, ME!
I will miss BBC coverage a lot since it has been a great alternative to the pathetic local coverage.
Half of the races (and probably half of the team) is not enough.
Top notch coverage this weekend! What's the name of the little guy next to DC? Awesome commentators, brilliant production and thoroughly entertaining. I'm still not sure as to why Bernie wanted to shift over to Sky Sports, but as an American with limited coverage of F1 I always go to BBC.
Ben Edwards is that "little guy" :D - came over from the British Touring Car coverage, but he has previous F1 commentary experience from the dim and distant Eurosport days - 16 years ago, in fact.
Incidentally, for those who didn't see the red button forum or who didn't know already, Lee McKenzie is anchoring the show for the next two races as Jake is off at some football kickabout in Eastern Europe's equivalent of the Third Reich.
No Jake :s hock:. Oh well I'll watch the Jake clone on Sky instead.
That's if we have a Jake clone to watch: Sky F1 presenter Simon Lazenby sparks fury with bad taste 'joke' about Princess Grace of Monaco's death | Mail OnlineQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark
Anyone seen anything about the respective viewing figures of the two broadcasters? I'd be interested to see how many people have actually bothered signing up to MurdochVision for F1.
It's not really about signing up 'for F1' as it's available to all HD subscribers it's just part of a range of services.
True for me if there is a choice of live coverage then it's BBC every time.
It was the main reason I upgraded to HD. Though in retrospect, by far the best thing about upgrading was getting Sky+.Quote:
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Anybody spot a peeved Brundle behind the cordon of the RBR pool whilst the Beeb got preferential treatment!
RE HD - I have a Freeview TV in the bedroom. However, currently, Freeview HD only gets BBC, ITV and CH4 HD - 3/4 channels at best. It only takes Ronnie Ring-ding-ding-ding on his clapped out moped drive past to pixelate the FCUK out the picture.......Quote:
Originally Posted by AndyL
The quality and range of HD content on PhoneHack+ is very good, and have had no picture issues thus far!
Simple audience numbers is going to make sure that BBC are always ahead of Sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by wedge
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Originally Posted by henners88
Haven't looked at BBC 1 & 2's schedules, but I assume this is all because of the Euro 2012 games and not being able to shuffle enough space?
Football takes precedence.
But isn't there a rule that the highlights must be a number of hours after the end of the live race?
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Originally Posted by Mark
Oh right. You could be right. I have to say this season I haven't watched much on BBC as I am a creature of habit and like consistancy so have watched Sky mostly.
You would think though that the BBC could find an earlier BBC 2 slot.
Although the race finishes at what about 7:30? So thats only 3 hours. No more than the early morning races being shown at midday.
No the race doesn't start until 7pm, so won't be over until 8.45pm ish.
Yes but for the afternoon races and compromisingly negotiable judging by Bahrain - which had a slightly earlier slot but with shorter highlights.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark
I'm just glad that the BBC are still showing a full two hour programme. Starting the highlights at 22:30 doesn't seem unreasonable given that the race won't finish until 20:45. Presumably it takes a bit of time to put the highlights together? If they started much earlier then there would be a danger of the race not being finished in time if there was a red flag.
Be thankful you have coverage at a (semi) reasonable hour - In Oz qualifying is beng shown at 0200 (thats two in the morning!)
I realise that this is likely a time-zone thing in part, but the broadcaster who shows F1 and MotoGP in Oz is now owned by an overly wealthy bimbo with strong ties to the Murdochs, who own Foxtel (equivalent of Sky in the UK). And she has an agenda...
In fact, since Rhinardt, Murdoch and Packer bought into channel 10, things have gone backward in terms of sport broadcasting in general, and motorsport in particular. Massive conflict of interest by the owners, which is blithely ignored by those who should be regulating these things in my country. There was a new, dedicated sports channel (OneHD) that was introduced with the new digital TV channels (we're a bit slow on the uptake over here - theres got to be an apropriate amount of red tape waded through before anything gets done), that lasted just about one year, before it was re-packaged as a "lads" channel, with re-runs of ****e US sitcoms and Cops. Dissapointing is not adequate...
I don't mind having to watch the race late personally (if circumstances can't be avoided). For example, I only watched Monaco yesterday, right before the Canada qualifying session. I would have managed to avoid the result also, but my mate let it slip in work during the week. Fair enough.
If you have Setanta Ireland, the race is live from 1855 - one positive thing about living in Ireland :D
Right, I'm going to go and hide in a darkened room until the BBC highlights are up. Hope it's around one hour of great racing and the rest is mindless tedium :p
Sky's buildup is pretty much hit and miss, we buffer it and skip through the adverts and boring bits, but I'm still convinced that their race coverage beats the BBC's. If nothing else the picture and sound quality are in a different league, and Crofty has toned down the shouting and is at least Ben Edwards' equal right now.
Sky's in race coverage and commentary is every bit as good as that of the beeb, pre and post race is not too far behind either.
Sky's coverage was good, although Simon Lazenby still has that "oh sh*t" look on his face that he had in Melbourne. Villenueve had the look of "who is this fool" on his face for most of the weekend - until his bald head started to finally fry in the sun that is! People are paying a premium, Sky could and should have a presenter who knows what they are doing and saying, they dont need the blind to try and lead the blind as would be the case on a free/terrestrial channel. At the start of the year I wondered what was the point in Georgie Thompson, but I have come to the conclusion that she is now well under used on a Saturday and especially Sunday.
Otherwise- and until you compare the two, you do not realise the sound difference between Sky and the BBC, it is so so much better.
And the BBC waiting to 10.30pm to show the edited highlights - that is poor. Yes there is "other" sport etc on BBC1 but BBC2/BBCHD had something on pornograohy from Louis Theroux which just about says it all I'm afriad.
i think that would have been the earliest that BBC could show the highlights after the race, approx 2 hrs after race finishQuote:
Originally Posted by acescribe
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nice highlights of the race from BBC, did a decent job of the cut and kept the feel of the race
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Agreed. It was a good show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robinho
I thought the post-race presentation was crap with the inter-cut of graphics and, er, choice music. I thought the was like sitting in a boardroom seeing PP-assisted cheesy presentation.
They don't do it for the live show nor are they sorely missed in podcasts.
Really enjoyed the Canadian Grand Prix, if that was because or despite of Sky I don't know!