BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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Skeeter said:
Oh right, so that new 7 year deal will be as fixed as the 5 year exclusive deal thats just been broken....

Come on, think about it, the BBC are looking for a way out. This is just a stepped way of doing it.
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I did not say or do anything other than provide a quote which showed your statement that the BBC had not extended their contract as a result of this 'deal' was wrong. Whether they will honour it is another thing entirely.
 
Skeeter said:
Oh right, so that new 7 year deal will be as fixed as the 5 year exclusive deal thats just been broken....

Come on, think about it, the BBC are looking for a way out. This is just a stepped way of doing it. If Sky decide that having exclusive F1 rights is worth more to them than sharing the deal with the BBC, they will just buy the BBC out and jog on with it.
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Why? They now keep viewers and prestige, whilst paying next to nothing. I very much doubt they will want out of this agreement.

They didn't want out, they wanted to keep it. The price was just to high.
 
Skyboat said:
Indeed, don't know how that can be read wrong, especially from looking at BBC's headline.

Besides, if BBC coverage stops completely it'll definitely be a breach of the Concorde Agreement.
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Breaches in the Concorde Agreements are easily solved with the use of a cheque book.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Sort of, with out some sort of free to air, I doubt the teams would have accepted it.

So it's win all round, except for us. BBC get cheap service but still show a lot. Bsb who were out the running, gets to show it.
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actually, I'm warming to it..
 
Slam62 said:
next year though you have to pay a sky sports subscription in order to watch fly away races live, hmmm... pay sky, get up at five, whatch boring race or... stay in bed.
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i'd be suprised is F1 on sky even pulls in 2million viewers and how much of this 2million viewers subscription money goes to the team? probably less than £2 per person.

sounds to me like they would have been better off just cutting 50% of the fee the bbc were paying...
 
utajoker said:
ive been told jake will be going over to sky.
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Highly unlikely.

As I said earlier in the thread, he's been groomed by the BBC for the Olympics and is likely to be a lead anchor. It's already apparent from all the pre-Olympics shows he's been involved with, along with how he missed that one race last year to cover Athletics. He even tweeted at the time that he was likely to be involved with the Olympics, but loved F1.

So even if BBC was fully showing F1 next year, it would have likely been the case that he wouldn't have been involved for most of the summer races.

The BBC can afford loose certain presenters, but given that the usual Olympics anchors like Sue Barker, Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine, Steve Rider, Des Lynam etc are all over the hill, you can see how he is quite refreshing as somebody young and passionate about sport. They will do the best they can to keep him at the Beeb I'm sure.

This however does show how there is likely to be a big split with what happens to presenting staff for F1 coverage.
 
AcidHell2 said:
Sort of, with out some sort of free to air, I doubt the teams would have accepted it.

So it's win all round, except for us. BBC get cheap service but still show a lot. Bsb who were out the running, gets to show it.
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But is it that much cheaper? Excuse me if I get the figures wrong (recalling off top of my head) but its my understanding that the Beeb are going to save around £16mil a year with this deal, but still expecting to pay around £30mil a year to keep this reduced coverage.

I know Sky will pump a lot of money into their coverage but it does seem to me that theyve got a relative bargain when it comes to TV rights (I dont know how much they will pay to FOM but naturally it will be much more than the £16mil shortfall) while the BBC in stark reality havent made a massive saving considering what they have now given up. To me it shrieks of finding a pound, but losing a tenner.

Which brings me back to the point, why did they decide to have this halfway house of TV rights, if they are so strapped for cash another £30mil a year would come in ever so handy. Damn I know the Beeb is public service, but I didnt know it was run like an inefficient quango too...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Do you think any pubs will see a new Market? I think that would be a saving grace.
Most already subscribed to sky sports and now there's no free way to view. Way to increase customers during day/morning.

If thats the figures it seems a bit odd, I haven't seen any figures posted, so I was assuming it would be well less than they are currently paying.
 
so the consumer has been royally ******** once again I take it

As of next year anyone who wants to see every race live will HAVE to get a Sky subscription (and most likely one of the most expensive packages to get what we are now getting for the cost of the licence fee)

The concorde agreement means sweet FA then
 
AcidHell2 said:
If thats the figures it seems a bit odd, I haven't seen any figures posted, so I was assuming it would be well less than they are currently paying.
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I havent a clue where I got those figures in my head - thought it was F1Fanatic but its not - ready to be totally wrong. Also no doubt this morning the exact details of the deal werent public knowledge either...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
Yep price difference between minimum package and everything is about £12. So if you do it you might as well get all the film channels and everything else.
 
oh great, so half our races are going to have ****ing adverts in them. i hope we dont get another classic like this one from ITV:

*driver has massive crash*
commentator: "we've just had news that he's broken his-
*cut to adverts*
 
AcidHell2 said:
Yep price difference between minimum package and everything is about £12. So if you do it you might as well get all the film channels and everything else.
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cheapest you can get sky sports is £39.75 a month not including HD.

most expensive package is: £71 excluding club channels.
 
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