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Channel 4 enters F1 race | News | Broadcast

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Channel 4 has opened discussions to acquire the TV rights to Formula 1 when the BBC’s deal expires in two years time.


Bosses at C4 are understood to be eyeing the sport as a means of attracting the young male audience.

The broadcaster has also won the rights to broadcast the 2012 Paralympics and Paralympic World Cup, as well as the IAAF World Athletic Championships from the BBC.

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I wouldn't mind seeing C4 give it a go. Given how long they've been showing British F3 and GT (1999 to present) I think we could safely assume they would be prepared to make a long-term commitment to it.

No Eggheads on BBC2 last night because of tennis. BBC are disgrace!

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Originally Posted by inimitablestoo

I wouldn't mind seeing C4 give it a go. Given how long they've been showing British F3 and GT (1999 to present) I think we could safely assume they would be prepared to make a long-term commitment to it.

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I wouldn't. They'll quickly grow bored of it and the quality will diminish as with every other sport they showed.

C4 don't have the cash. If Bernie was willing to drop to the amount they could afford, the Beeb wouldn't even have to consider dropping it.

What Martin Whitmarsh has suggested today, though, is a return to the two-tier feed of the early 2000s - a basic feed for free-to-air (presumably the idea being to convince the Beeb to stay on with a reduced price), and a more expensive "data-rich" feed for the likes of Sky to squeeze more money out overall...

Channel 4 took on the WRC then lost interest and dropped it. Much like they did with Tour de France. Ch 4 isn't a proper sports channel it seems to get coverage on a whim and drop it just as quickly.

Can't help but feel as unlikley as it is that Channel 4 will get F1, if it did happen it would be a very bad idea for F1.

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Originally Posted by Mark

Channel 4 took on the WRC then lost interest and dropped it. Much like they did with Tour de France. Ch 4 isn't a proper sports channel it seems to get coverage on a whim and drop it just as quickly.

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Quite agree. There was a time when Saturday mornings from 7-12 on Channel 4 were nothing but sport. Transworld Sport, Racing, Motorsport, Football Italia - but then they decided to move what sport they had for pre 7 o'clock. Replaced by 'yoof' tv and endless Friends repeats........

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Originally Posted by The Black Knight

DC would want to open his eyes. He referred back to Spa 98, something he does a lot, saying clearly the old magic was still there when he saw MS with a broken wing overtake Sutil when clearly Sutil had simply ran wide. Clearly there was no magic here and the two incidents were nothing alike. Idiotic commentary like that from DC just makes me want to punch him.

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I'm pretty sure that comment wasn't meant 100% as such - DC is incredibly sharp, he knew damn well Sutil ran wide. He was slightly taking the piss more than anything.

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Originally Posted by Dave B

It's sickening: the new BBC Trust chairman is an ex Conservative Party chairman (who has already made clear that he wants to see channels and services cut); meanwhile the PM has only this week had yet more cosy meetings with Rupert Murdochas the takeover of BSkyB edges towards being rubber-stamped by a Culture Secretaty who despite having to be impartial is on record praising the tycoon. This is all happening while one of his newspapers stands accused of phone hacking on an industrial scale, allegedly partly overseen by the man who until recently was Cameron's media spokesman; and the Met Police stand accused of bowing to political pressure not to act. Honestly, if you wrote that as a crime novel people would dismiss it as being too far-fetched.

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As is now becoming all too apparent.

With the end of the NOTW, what are all the brain dead British meatheads going to do on a Sunday morning in between eating their fry-ups and bashing the wife about?

Oh yes, fear not, because the Scum will run for seven days............