BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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With regards to DC and Martin, during the race this may mean they cant mention anything that has happened on either pre show, as not to confuse fans, Brundle talks about upcoming features, so will he not be able to say that?

This sounds messy, what if Sky want Martin and DC to come to thier tent instead of BBC?
 
So disappointed, I'd got back into F1 this season and now it's gone. No way am I paying TV license when I only watch F1, nor am I going to pay for Sky just for the privilege.
 
Said it once and I'll say it again. No other sport is exclusively broadcast by free-to-air channels. Why should F1 be any different?

Answer: It shouldn't, accept it.
 
Sadly it is likely to be hte end of F1 for me. I've followed it since the Mansell times, particularly loving the Schumacher / Hill era and getting up at 2am to watch some races. Sadly as I now have children I can't commit the same amount of time to it and I can only sometimes watch a race.

So while I do have Sky I'm not prepared to add Sky Sports just for the occasions I may be able to watch F1. And with the BBC only having some of the races live I just don't think I'll bother anymore. It is a great shame but it seems that's the end of it for me. It's also a shame as one of my neighbours sons is probably about to break into F1 so it would have added an even more interesting twist for me (he's one of the test drivers driver for McLaren).
 
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Concorde Rules said:
Quite amazing the number of comments that are being racked up here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2011/07/f1_coverage_to_be_shared_betwe.html
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I haven't read through all those comments, but I am struggling to find a single positive comment.

Seriously, BBC have screwed up big time on this. What's even more shocking is that they are painting a very rosy picture.

Why not just come out with it and say that "funds were low and we simply could not afford to out bid SKY, hence a compromise was reached. We desperately wanted to keep hold of F1, but funds did not allow".
 
nydryl said:
Said it once and I'll say it again. No other sport is exclusively broadcast by free-to-air channels. Why should F1 be any different?

Answer: It shouldn't, accept it.
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Nobody is saying that it should be exclusively on FTA channels. The problem is that BBC are no longer showing half the GPs, so the viewer basically has no choice other than to get SKY and SKY Sports. And you can't hire Sky Sports on a race by race basis - you hire that package on a monthly basis, which means, whether BBC show half the races or none of them, to watch all 20-odd F1 races, you must get Sky Sports.

As far as I know MotoGP races are all shown on the BBC.
 
It really does make me mad at Sky this, that and how many people let them get away with things.

You buy your basic subscription, you pay to add your channels, those chanels have adverts on them and then the programes are sponsored. They also offer very little diversity in there in house programming, everything is paid for, anything original is usually something cheap to make. How is anyone on free to air who try to make diverse programming supposed to compete with that?

What also shocked me, is that after your first year, your instalation isn't covered. Basically your paying a subscription for the service and the hardware, if it fails in anyway, is your problem.

There is no way to stop the Sky march, some people will say "enough is enough" and stop there subscription, but most won't, they are sheep.

If people stopped paying for Sky Sports it would either go free for all Sky viewers or close down. If people stopped getting Sky full stop it would go out of business and all these sports would either not be shown at all (very unlikely) or become free to air.

I think it's time for a revolution.
 
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I'm so gutted about all this, I've really got into F1 in the last few years, the BBC have really up'd there game and produce such a fantastic show, prob the best sports show out there and they dump this crap on us.
 
nydryl said:
Said it once and I'll say it again. No other sport is exclusively broadcast by free-to-air channels. Why should F1 be any different?.
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I think you will find that the BBC have exclusive UK rights to broadcast the Wimbledon Tennis Finals in UK households.
 
Sky’s experience in broadcasting was instrumental in Ecclestone choosing them over Channel Four, despite them offering the same money for the rights.
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Taken from the article on the Daily Mail site this morning :rolleyes:
 
Ch4 would have been the ideal partner for the BBC!

The only thing is they are sharing the same pot of money (with added advertising, but they are not for profit) so when F1 started demanding more money it would be a problem.

The pre-show, post show, forum, highlights etc could have been on C4 and the race/quali on BBC. That way we get un-interupted when it mattered and C4 got the technical bits, which I think would fit in with there other programming as well.

If it had to have split in anyway, that would have been the prefered option for me.
 
So it could have stayed free tv :( this is the first step to sky taking over F1.
I hope F1 teams break away very soon.
 
Ouch! The fact that it could have gone to C4 makes this even worse. If going to Sky was the nail in the coffin for F1 for me this has concreted it and chucked it at the bottom of the sea!
 
I am going to see if I can watch it on Speed TV at 10am. If so I will watch it from there next season or use a dish.
 
I really hope Sky fails hard with this one. I doubt many people will subscribe just to watch F1. Really will be the end of an era for me :( - at least it will free up more of my weekends (trying to find positives!).
 
deuse said:
I think you will find that the BBC have exclusive UK rights to broadcast the Wimbledon Tennis Finals in UK households.
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Yes you're right but that doesn't contradict anything I said. I didn't refer to a specific event, I referred to any single sport.

A parallel to Wimbledon would be if the BBC got the British GP only.

sunama said:
Nobody is saying that it should be exclusively on FTA channels. The problem is that BBC are no longer showing half the GPs, so the viewer basically has no choice other than to get SKY and SKY Sports. And you can't hire Sky Sports on a race by race basis - you hire that package on a monthly basis, which means, whether BBC show half the races or none of them, to watch all 20-odd F1 races, you must get Sky Sports.

As far as I know MotoGP races are all shown on the BBC.
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That's the nature of sports broadcasting though. Fair enough I overlooked MotoGP but every other sports fan needs to pay for Sky if they want to watch all the events/matches/races in their respective sport. Nobody has come up with a good reason as why F1 should be held in higher esteem than say golf, football, tennis, cricket and so on and so forth. I'd love to watch all the golf majors on the BBC but I can't, I can only watch The Masters and The Open. I'd love to watch all Champions League matches on ITV, but I can't, I only get half of them. I'd love to watch all the tennis majors on the BBC...well you see where I'm going with this.

Don't misunderstand this as being pro Sky, I'd love all/more sport to be free-to-air but it's unrealistic.
 
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