BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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Robbo said:
The question is, if (when) ALL the races were on Sky, would you buy it then?
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Nope as I said F1 is dead to me after this year. Not an over-reaction, just not interested in the cost for that 'entertainment'. I would have to watch more telly just to justify it and thats just talking stupid :p...
EVH said:
Your maths is wrong.

£610 per year / 20 race (average) = £30.50 per race
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Hes said it a few times already but he was only accounting for the 10 races he would be forced to own a Sky Sports sub for - the remainder would be via BBC. His maths/reasoning is perfectly acceptable...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ps3ud0 said:
Nope as I said F1 is dead to me after this year. Not an over-reaction, just not interested in the cost for that 'entertainment'. I would have to watch more telly just to justify it and thats just talking stupid :p...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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That's fair enough, I suppose only the 'hardcore' F1 fans will sign up to Sky due to this.

Then you'll always have those few people moaning "if you didn't pay for it, we wouldn't have this problem..." :o
 
Oh I see, so people complaining that it will cost £61 per race basically mean this:

I now have to become a new sky customer which will cost approx £610 per year. If you divide this number by the number of additional races I get on top of the ones I can watch for free* via BBC, 10, then you get £61 per race.

OK. Yeah. I see your point there. ****. That's actually.....wow. ****ers.


*free via BBC assumes you are willing to wave the licence fee
 
Big meeting this afternoon, there's going to be more to this, I can't see all the teams being happoy about it and some of the past and present drivers. Moving to sky isn't such a big shock, its sky sports and pay even more that botheres me.
 
Wolfe777 said:
We need Lewis Hamilton to win another championship - and fast.

Then the BBC will be forced to get the rights back for reasons of 'cultural significance'.

IE: Making the average Guardian reader have a smug, warming, glowing feeling inside about how great multiculturalism is.

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http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/11/...live-f1-broadcasts-on-free-to-air-television/

I found the f1fanatic article interesting where it mentions the Government had the opportunity in 2009 to protect the F1 TV rights but choose not to - if they had, then this deal couldnt have happened :mad:
Robbo said:
That's fair enough, I suppose only the 'hardcore' F1 fans will sign up to Sky due to this.

Then you'll always have those few people moaning "if you didn't pay for it, we wouldn't have this problem..." :o
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But thats the problem, I am a hardcore fan (probably not as bad as some on here though :p), but I refused to be bullied. For what its worth, Im making my stand - F1s lost me and I doubt Im a rarity...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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Utterly despicable decision...im no huge fan of F1 but i do watch a few races every so often. I have sky and sky sports with the HD package but tbh having half the races on BBC and half on Sky sports just sucks big time....i feel pretty much for the fans who cant afford sky sports at the moment...what a butt**** that is :/
 
jaybee said:
AcidHell you keep stating it will now cost £61 per race to watch. I know you have tried to explain this to people but I do not understand. Can you post a break down as to how you came to that number? This news is awful I agree and I am saddened by it, but...people who keep posting examples of how much it will now cost to watch it is confusing as heck for me. How/where are you coming up with costs to now watch it? Can you explain the breakdown very clearly. Also people keep talking about watching it on PPV (pay per view). What do you mean? Are you talking about a pay per view online service or just Sky/virgin packages?
Sorry yes I'm a noob etc. Just want to understand. Ta.
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10 races on sky
Sky variety pack (minimum package you can have) + sky sports collection £39.75pm
39.75x12 = 477 a year
so thats £47.7 per race

Add HD on that's an extra £10.25pm
So thtas £600 a year or £60 a race

Add the installation fee on and then landline on top of that. And your looking at another £10 a month on either of those.

When I move house again, I'm hoping to have virgin BB and Freesat and nothing else.
So that is £60+ a month extra just for f1. That I wont be paying for.
 
Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, said: "This is fantastic news for F1 fans and Sky Sports will be the only place to follow every race live and in HD"

I think i'm going to have to disagree there, seeing as from a fan's point of view, the only difference is going to be potentially odd, disjointed coverage that they now have to pay for instead of getting for free.

FANTASTIC NEWS GUYS, NOW YOU CAN PAY £50 A MONTH TO GET WHAT YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE, ISN'T THAT GREAT? :D :D :D

I bet he's literally drowning under the influx of thank you letters.
 
AcidHell2 said:
10 races on sky
Sky variety pack (minimum package you can have) + sky sports collection £39.75pm
39.75x12 = 477 a year
so thats £47.7 per race

Add HD on that's an extra £10.25pm
So thtas £600 a year or £60 a race

Add the installation fee on and then landline on top of that. And your looking at another £10 a month on either of those.
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Yep I get you matey. Sorry was being dumb earlier. This decision has shocked and appaled me.

I'm with Virgin and just got given a new 12 month deal but it does not have Skysports included nor do I want to pay for that. Would probably cost me an additional £20 per month ish I suspect.
 
scorza said:
10 of those races will be on the BBC, so it's £610 / 10 Sky Exclusive races.
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Irrelevant. You can't pick and choose which races you want to pay for on Sky. You subscribe for month long periods at a time. Might even be a minimum 12 month contract, too.
 
AcidHell2 said:
10 races on sky
Sky variety pack (minimum package you can have) + sky sports collection £39.75pm
39.75x12 = 477 a year
so thats £47.7 per race

Add HD on that's an extra £10.25pm
So thtas £600 a year or £60 a race

Add the installation fee on and then landline on top of that. And your looking at another £10 a month on either of those.

When I move house again, I'm hoping to have virgin BB and Freesat and nothing else.
So that is £60+ a month extra just for f1. That I wont be paying for.
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20 races on Sky is more accurate, just that 10 of them are duplicated on the BBC so you're paying for 10 'extra' races.
 
Kenai said:
20 races on Sky is more accurate, just that 10 of them are duplicated on the BBC so you're paying for 10 'extra' races.
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which i the only thing which counts. I'm wouldn't be paying for anything else. so its 10 races i would be paying for, hence divided by 10. even if bbc didn't cover it. That's still over £30 a race. would need like a 50 race season before it become reasonable.

How many games in a football season, just shown on Sky? I bet its a lot more than 10 or 20.
 
Why is it that F1 fans seem to believe their sport deserves to be exculsively broadcast by the BBC? Currently only F1 enjoys that luxury.

I enjoy watching some of the races on the BBC, and would love to see more sport in general on free-to-air channels, but F1 doesn't deserve special treatement. The £X per race arugment holds no water either. You're not paying to watch an indiviual race, you're paying for a broad range of sports and programmes. It's your perogative to choose to only watch F1.
 
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Basically if you have Sky/Virgin and you do not have skysports, and you then want to add it, it's going to cost you potentially an extra £15-20ish a month? I'm guessing here. That depends on a lot of things including HD and what services/deals you already have.
If you now decide you need to get sky from scratch it's going to cost you well in excess of £50 per month over the year.
 
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