To put my BBC hat, on the back of all our ID badges it states the 4 BBC values are Trust, Audiences, Quality and Respect, so hopefully they just carry on as they are.
BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...
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To put my BBC hat, on the back of all our ID badges it states the 4 BBC values are Trust, Audiences, Quality and Respect, so hopefully they just carry on as they are.
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Sadly they still have the catalan tv station showing the races, which i always found odd. BBC can't afford f1 but a regional tv station can, even without adverts. On the positive side no spanish speaking coverage could finaly kill valencia.
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Its owned by the regional government i think.
Surely the cost of F1 depends on the market.
The UK market is far more valuable and hence F1's cost is higher here.Surely the cost of F1 depends on the market.
is it? the uk market is fairly small ? arent we only suposed to be something like 5%
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By market I mean how much F1 is worth - the advertising value etc. This has little to do with how popular F1 is and a lot to do with how rich people in the UK are. 2 million people watching in the UK is a larger market than 10 million watching in India for example.
For sure, that's all part of it. F1 in the UK is particularly valuable the typical audience is a low-TV watching cohort with high disposable income. Guaranteed exposure to that audience is worth far more than the same 30 seconds in the middle of X-Factor for example.
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interesting program, might be worth a look for football
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theres a reason the car manufactures are trying to break into india and china and its not because they are poor
High economic growth != high GDP per capita necessarily; or disposable income...
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The average displosable income per person might well be lower, however, this is a developing economy. What this means is that there are a lot of up and comers...people who are emerging with money. If you have advertising/marketing in place, then you will be there to take advantage of any new money which becomes available to people.
The UK is a mature market, so to speak. What this means is that it is already saturated with advertising and marketing from rival (car) companies. In India, there is very little exposure to companies such as Mercedes or BMW. They have heard of these brands, but nothing to the same level as what we have in the UK.
Put it another way. If I had US$1M to invest in a business. I would first look towards investing this in China or India. My belief is that the returns in these 2 countries will be the highest (albeit with slightly higher risk).
For the above reasons, it could prove VERY lucrative to venture into an emerging economy such as India and China. This is the very reason that despite the low turn outs, F1 bosses are "pushing" F1 into these emerging markets.
A lot of people think that Ecclestone is an idiot. I would say that he is a businessman of the very highest order and knows exactly what he is doing. No other man or woman on this planet could run the F1 show in quite the same way he has and if he is pushing F1 in China and India, there is good (financial) reasons for this. After all, there are very few people on this planet who are better at making money, than Bernie.
Yeah, it's not like India has a much publicised, rapidly expanding, middle-class section of society, is it? That would make it a completely different story.High economic growth != high GDP per capita necessarily; or disposable income...
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Sky F1 will also cover GP2 AND GP3 races LIVE!
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/groups/gp2/forum/topic/gp2-and-gp3-to-be-shown-live-on-sky-f1-channel/
SUH-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/groups/gp2/forum/topic/gp2-and-gp3-to-be-shown-live-on-sky-f1-channel/
SUH-WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
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