BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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Todge said:
Just for your information guys.

Sky Sports 1 got just under 1.5 million viewers at the end of may for the Champions League final between Barcalona and Manchester United.

At the start of May they had a game on Super Sunday which got 2.6 million. That was for the Manchester United v Chelsea match. Quite easily one of the biggest games of the season.

BBC got 6.27 on BBC1 for the Canadian GP (no idea for BBC 1 HD)
4.9 for the British GP
5.15 for Monaco
4.75 for Spain
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Exactly it's a mental decision, after a few tough years F1 has finally got back to a stage were you might actually start to get kids interested in the sport and they pull this.

The BBC coverage has been fantastic and I will make sure to enjoy the rest of this season because I won't pay for sky sports. If it was say going on sky one or a free sky channel I would have put up with a dish on the side of my house and got a sky plus box.

It will be interesting to see the sky viewing figures for this.

So this is Bernies final legacy that he will leave F1 with, I don't normal get involved in Bernie bashing but they stitched the BBC up thinking they were in a bidding war the last time. They over payed and wanted a cheaper deal this time. Why he hasn't looked at it from the point that the BBC coverage and depth they put in has been great to get fans back into the sport.

I don't believe all the people in here that say F1 is dead to them. You will just look for other inferior free methods to see the races. Even if it's not watching live.

Very sad panda right now :(

NathanE said:
I do wonder however whether the words "usenet" and/or "cccam" gained new a prominence today amongst F1 fans.
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Yes and I'm one.
 
Its a shame, I dont have sky sports and dont really want to pay for it just for the gp, infact i was contemplating about ditching sky completely...... as others have said it will ruin it with adverts pretty much like ITV did. At least the wife cant moan about me sitting on the sofa doing bugger all on a sunday afternoon if I cant watch it live :D

how much extra is sky sports per month?
 
nydryl said:
Clearly in disagreement with the majority of people in here, which isn't suprising given it's in Motorsport. It's a shame F1 has been lost to Sky but ultimately that's the way sport in general is going. Ideally everything would be free-to-air but it isn't and I see no reason why F1 should be an exception to the rule.
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You have kind of answered your own point. Your in an F1 thread on a Motorspot form, what did you expect people to say.

Whilst I fully accept that this is the way sport is going, I'm still allowed to be unhappy about it.
 
The only reason I even watch the telly being taken away, well I'll be trying to find live streams on the internet, Can't afford sky, don't want sky. seems exceptionally poor.

I'd rather pay them a set fee to watch it per season over my PS3 or something, but their is no way on this earth I will ever buy sky.
 
It's terrible news. I lost track of cricket when it went completely over to the dark side, I just hope the same doesn't happen with F1.

I have no interest in all the other 'great' stuff Sky shovels out and I'm simply not going to pay whatever the subscription charge is per month for Sky, just for F1. One wonders if they'd go pay per view if there was a suitably juicy title decider?

Regardless, Sky, Bernie and the rest. can go take a running jump. :(

Deep breaths...
 
ps3ud0 said:
Question on one of my earlier posts - if youve decided either not to follow F1 on TV or not to get access to the full season would you ever consider going to a F1 race?
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I have got really into F1 this season (first one really watching it since ITV had it, and that's when I switched off). I was considering going to Silverstone in a few years, but like you said, it's like a one off event out of context.

You wouldn't know the drivers, the teams, the good guys, the bad guys, the winners, the looser, the ones on the up, the ones on the way down etc.

Like this season, you rock up to Silverstone. "Look Ferrari won! That's amazing, Red Bull got pipped at the post! That hot blowing ban has really helped them out! And what about that, arguing about it on the race weekend, madness!"

And your response would be: "Sorry, hot what? Yeah course Ferrari won, they are Ferrari, they make cars, Red Bull make drinks...WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ABOUT!?!?!?"
 
Skeeter said:
You have kind of answered your own point. Your in an F1 thread on a Motorspot form, what did you expect people to say.

Whilst I fully accept that this is the way sport is going, I'm still allowed to be unhappy about it.
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In my defense I thought this was GD as I linked into it from the closed GD thread. I stopped arguing when I saw it was Motorsport as it's a bit pointless.
 
Locky said:
listen to your self, REALLY?
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I like my SKY HD service.. and?

It works for me, I never watch anything live, I record everything I am interested in as series linked stuff, so when I want to sit down at 9/10 on an evening and watch 1 - 1.5 hours of TV, I always have stacks of stuff that I like.. and most of it is in HD.. (In fact, the list of HD channels is superb, 30+ easily)

When someone in work or when I'm on holiday, and someone mentions a new show or something on that night, I just use the Android SKY app to remote record it..

It does cost me £42 a month for everything but movies (small discount, it's normally £48/month), but everyone uses it, very few arguments over the TV, since we all record everything, and watch it when we want.. even the kids..
 
this gives me rage :(

I'm not paying out the £500 or whatever I need to in order to have the channels to see the races, annoyed!
 
nydryl said:
In my defense I thought this was GD as I linked into it from the closed GD thread. I stopped arguing when I saw it was Motorsport as it's a bit pointless.
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Ah ok, fair shout then. I would expect the argument to be much more 2 sided in GD, and rightly so. If I had no interest in F1 at all I would be annoyed at millions of £'s of my fee payers money being spent on F1.
 
Lol to the person saying F1 fans are being forced.

You are not being forced to do anything, the highlights will still be on BBC.
 
Sukh said:
You are not being forced to do anything, the highlights will still be on BBC.
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It will be interesting to see if they still bother with the 1hr build up, special features etc before a 20 minutes 'highlights' edit, then have a long discussion at the end.
 
shaank said:
this gives me rage :(

I'm not paying out the £500 or whatever I need to in order to have the channels to see the races, annoyed!
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So just watch it on the BBC for free for the next 2 years.. surely having only 50% of the races not live is about as good as you can expect..

I totally wish it stayed as it was, I don't actually want it to go to sky, but until Bernie makes it cheap enough that anything non-subscription will bid for it, it's better then not having it at all.. I agree with all the reasoning that advertising and loss of viewing numbers will hurt things, but we are talking Bernie and his crew here..
 
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