BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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The olympics is also on for next to no time in the grand scheme, we'll then be left with nothing at all. (Well, we'll be left with debt, poor tv and an overall sense of "was that it?")
YAY!
 
Hxc said:
As big of an F1 fan as I am that is plain not true; the olympics will draw a HUGE audience many times what f1 brings in. It is, afterall, niche programming, in all honesty.
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Depends on how you look at it. More people watched a single F1 race this year than watched a single event in the last Olympic games. Total overall viewing was in the tens of millions, but I'm not sure if they were counting unique viewers, or total viewers per event even if they were duplicates in others. I'd argue that athletics is as much niche programming as Formula One is, personally.
 
I signed up so I could comment on that site, I can't see the beeb bothering to moderate mine or the other 5 pages of comments awaiting approval. Will cost too much pennies...

It is so frustrating that there are such a large number of people up in arms about this, but there's absolutely nothing that can be done. :(
 
Alpherah said:
You might, but those of us with Sky Sports will rightly say why on earth should we pay more?
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Fair point. Comes back to what I said earlier. The only people likely to watch it on sky sports are the people who already subscribe. People who don't aren't going to pay the extra just for the F1 races when nothing else on the channels appeals to them.

In case you hadn't guessed, I absolutely loath everything about football
 
The last male caller on 5Live before Damon Hill is a bit of an idiot ..
Its easy to say to him "people need to stop assuming everyone likes sport, some people will be glad that there's less F1 on the TV"..
But i mean, if we are losing a premium sport, how about they remove a premium soap (cough, Eastenders) to balance it out.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
It is so frustrating that there are such a large number of people up in arms about this, but there's absolutely nothing that can be done. :(
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And all the people who could do something e.g. Brundle, Jake etc. will all get paid off by Sky :(

I will really miss F1 - the only plus side is that it saves me money on my TV licence. Everything else on TV is rubbish.
 
Alpherah said:
But i mean, if we are losing a premium sport, how about they remove a premium soap (cough, Eastenders) to balance it out.
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The BBC would have about 2 channels too many if this were to happen, it'd also have to go back to screening ceefax at times during the day...

I would pay to see it happen though. :D
 
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I have Sky HD and i'm not happy about this, i refuse to pay for the sky sport packages.

Nolan, With reference to your comments "you can still watch 10 races", let me give you an example to perhaps you can relate: Would you be happy to go to the cinema watch the first hour of a movie only for the theater to turn the screen off and ask you to listen to the rest? Somehow i doubt you would.

I watch two programs on the BBC, TopGear and F1, i have no interest in daytime 'unemployment TV' and cheap to produce media content which appeal to the lowest demographic.

With the BBC's current moves of cutting premium events they risk falling from the top of the media production tree.

Everyone has to make hard financial choices at the moment, perhaps more of the population should stand up and refuse to pay the licence fee, perhaps then the BBC will actually listen to what US the consumer actually wants.

For reference i already have a Sky HD sub but i refuse to pay the stupid amounts it would cost for the sky sports package.
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Made me laugh when he started banging on about what the real fans want.... We are the real fans you idiot.
 
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Hxc said:
As big of an F1 fan as I am that is plain not true; the olympics will draw a HUGE audience many times what f1 brings in. It is, afterall, niche programming, in all honesty.
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The BBC made huge strides into bringing F1 out of that niche market, this will just push F1 back under the rock it crawled out of.
If thats what Bernie wants then so be it, sky wont be getting a penny from me over this.

Sky sports is predominately a football channel, were is the value for the average F1 fans? I cant help but feel Bernie is only looking at the short term gains over this deal, he will loose a lot of fans in the long run.
 
my dad has just barged into my room and told me that the races will be pay per view on sky sports. is this true or will you get F1 if you have the sports channels on sky?


also, a big +1 to removing BBC3. i have never watched that in my life. also, they can get rid of BBC4 while they're at it. all anyone watches it for is the reruns of top gear, which could be put on BBC2 where they belong
 
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BBC/Sky/F1 2012+. Found out last night, no idea how it will work yet I'm out of contract, will calmly work through options Not impressed
 
Makes absolutley no sense to me. The BBC have spent near £140m in the last 3 years getting the F1 up to an excellent standard and people start watching it in thier millions and what do they go and do, shop it off to sky. Where is the return on investment? Where is the common sense? and why oh bloody why do the BBC have to keep the smallest demographic happy. "We need BBC4 for the arts and history" I'm sorry I thought that's what BBC2 was for.

BBC1 - Sport/Highest Demographic programs
BBC2 - Documentaries, Arts, History. Generally more adult content.

Motorsport hardly gets any good coverage as it is. Superbikes, WRC etc get barely no coverage and now you only get half the races. What happens when Sky offer F1 more money for the Monaco, Germany, British Grand Prixs?

Shockingly bad, a decision they will regret.
 
Robbo said:
I understand that it's expensive JUST for F1 but at least you can get your broadband thrown in and other decent channels in HD. There are other benefits, or just watch more TV... :p

It'll be better when ALL of the F1 is on it.
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You dont get your broadband 'thrown in' - you get a small discount on a Sky broadband package if you are an existing customer. It's not like VM - the provision of broadband is an entirely seperate technology to the TV signal.

If you are not interested in the rest of Sky's offering, which many people are, its very expensive whichever way you look at it.
 
i can understand bbc has to apeal to the masses, eastenders etc, as like a lot of people i expect, i dont blame them, f1 isnt value for money, and i dont blame sky, its just more to take from freeview/forced licence tv .. the more they take the more people will give sky money,

'im not paying for just f1' ..sky gets moto gp, 'maybe i can justify it' etc etc, the more they can pillage the more customers they will eventually get, its good business to trounce the competiton with sheer financial weight.

its all down to bernie/management, if they were truely on the fans side races would be on good tracks, tracks would make a profit, teams would more profit, tickets would be cheaper.. it would be available for everyone.. but bernie wanted abu dabhi back.. says it all!

i know ill be internet stream hunting next year!

and as said before, if sky charged 2-3£ a race id probably pay
 
Fair play to the BBC website moderating team, they are still sorting through the comments and allowing the majority through.
I've not seen a single positive one so far. :D
 
Sky is rubbish unless you have every channel.

Browsing through "sorry you need to upgrade your subscription to watch this channel" x200 gets annoying if you only have the basic package. As does looking on the guide, seeing something you like then.. Whammy.. Please upgrade.

I will never pay for this. In fact I'll use my sky broadband to download the coverage. For free :p
 
Hxc said:
As big of an F1 fan as I am that is plain not true; the olympics will draw a HUGE audience many times what f1 brings in. It is, afterall, niche programming, in all honesty.
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5.3 million people watched the last race of the 2010 season.

You call that 'niche' programming?

I think you need to work out what niche means..
 
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