BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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EVH said:
BBC3 costs £115M a year.

There's your cost cutting tbh.
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WHAT! :eek: It doesn't even start until 7pm and all it ever really shows is re-runs of 3 year old Family Guy episodes. Being Human and Little Britain Being the only exceptions since ... 2002 or when ever the channel started.

£115M, unbelievable.
 
I can see it now, Redbull dominate 2012, Having to pay £40 a month to watch them do it, Viewing figures plummet. Well done old man well done.
 
[TW]Fox;19699705 said:
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.
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I agree, but football fans (though it is better value overall) have had to get Sky for more or less the same reason. It is a farce but that is the way of the world now :(

They were throwing broadband in for a free a while ago, it may have changed now.
 
Fanatic said:
Dunno if this has been posted: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/formula_one/14349356.stm

Basically Whitmarsh saying that the races not shown live, will still be the full race and not just edited highlights. So all 20 races still free. If the 10 races that aren't live are the ones that are on early in the morning then that wouldn't be so bad.
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Whitmarsh got that from Bernie, but apparently thats not what Bernie has agreed with the Beeb
Robbo said:
I agree, but football fans (though it is better value overall) have had to get Sky for more or less the same reason. It is a farce but that is the way of the world now :(

They were throwing broadband in for a free a while ago, it may have changed now.
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Lets be honest - Sky Sports only really exists as it does because of the EPL rights and a large amount of that premium is due to the cost of those exclusive rights. Its far more easier to justify that cost as a footy fan than it would be for a less 'publicised' sport like F1

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
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I can't see how any real f1 fan could tolerate half live and half not. When its not live, the whole life and soul is removed from the race.
Regardless of how this deal works out, and it'll be highlights with no build up, not full races. The uk f1 fan has been shafted.

I'm just sad that the BBC got me into this sport in the first place back in the hill/Schumacher days. Its like a cruel joke that's lasted so many years, reel them in and shoot them in the face.
I'd say thanks for the memories, but it just makes me realise what I'm going to miss. I'm so disappointed at what the network has become.
At least we still have the absolutely **** bbc3 and extreme hit/miss bbc4... *cough*
 
Robbo said:
I agree, but football fans (though it is better value overall) have had to get Sky for more or less the same reason. It is a farce but that is the way of the world now :(
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many would look at that as being the football fans fault, on one hand you cant blame them too much, they want to follow the sport, but if they hadnt signed up to sky, it wouldnt be on sky right now and they would probably have it for free, whether it would be the same or not i dont know. I think f1 fans are the wrong kind of people to try this kind of thing with, at least i hope so.
 
Further News

As much as some people hate him, James Allen just tweeted an update that he has managed to get further information.

Apparently BBC and Sky will have the same Commentators, even the same edit & production truck. The only thing to separate them will be there pre-show and presenters, with the BBC reducing capacity.

http://goo.gl/fb/gHKCK
 
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Oh man... listening to Bernie on that 5 Live broadcast has made me realise how utterly stupid he is. He kind of asks rhetorical questions that he thinks are clever and he clearly thinks he knows what he's talking about (admittedly he does with some things) , except for the fact that he's completely wrong. You can even tell the people interviewing him are like "um, yeah, ok :rolleyes:". It's a damn shame no-one bothers to make Bernie look a fool, but instead his idiocy is just swept under the carpet ready for the next question.
 
Nexus said:
Further News

As much as some people hate him, James Allen just tweeted an update that he has managed to get further information.

Apparently BBC and Sky will have the same Commentators, even the same edit & production truck. The only thing to separate them will be there pre-show and presenters, with the BBC reducing capacity.

http://goo.gl/fb/gHKCK
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how can the bbc do this, they should never get involved with a private channel and subsidize them
 
Well, finally managed to get to the end of this thread, that was a bit of a mission,

I'm annoyed, like most people it seems, and not really sure where to go from here.

Essentially the BBC footage next year will be useless, so it's either 'give up' on F1 or spend a reasonable chunk of money on Sky, which isn't unaffordable to me, I'd even been considering it to get BSB and WSBK (Paid for the eurosport player thing, which is unusable, so having to get my fix elsewhere)

But ultimately it's a decent chunk of money, hell I've recently organised with work to work from home around 1 day a week, that will save me roughly the same money (doing ~75 miles a day commuting) as having Sky, seems contradictory to do one thing to attempt to reduce my outgoings and then increase them by a similar amount on something ultimately unnecessary.

So yeah, right now it looks like my days of being a 'diehard' F1 fan are shortly running out, shame, it's been a good 10 years or so :(
 
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