BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

Fr0dders · 21 Jun 2011 at 06:35

JRS said:
Oh, wait a minute. Sorry, forgot where I was. This is OcUK, where Bernie is akin to Satan.

But the interest is self serving.

Its done because otherwise F1 and its team will collapse. If that happens then he's out of pocket. Thats the reason he cares, not out of any concern for the good of the sport.

JRS · 21 Jun 2011 at 08:30

MrLOL said:
But the interest is self serving.

Its done because otherwise F1 and its team will collapse. If that happens then he's out of pocket. Thats the reason he cares, not out of any concern for the good of the sport.

If all Bernie was out to do was line his pockets with yet more money, he'd have sold the TV rights to Sky back when sponsors and teams were clamouring to join the grid and the sport could survive such a move. He'd be even richer now than he already is had he done that.

And hell - so what if it is self serving? He's a business man. It's his job to make money. The way some of you talk, it's as if you want F1 to be run by a saintly philanthropist in it solely for the love of the sport and the viewing public, willing to throw vast sums of money at it for zero return. Newsflash guys - not gonna happen!

Fr0dders · 21 Jun 2011 at 08:42

JRS said:
If all Bernie was out to do was line his pockets with yet more money, he'd have sold the TV rights to Sky back when sponsors and teams were clamouring to join the grid and the sport could survive such a move. He'd be even richer now than he already is had he done that.
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Not so sure its as simple as that. But nevermind. I still don't like the man.

CaptainRAVE · 30 Jun 2011 at 17:03

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=44067

That.would.suck.

Duke · 30 Jun 2011 at 17:15

Dear god no.

ScottiB · 30 Jun 2011 at 17:22

Does anyone seriously watch or even care about BBC4?

~Mike~ · 30 Jun 2011 at 19:26

CaptainRAVE said:
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=44067

That.would.suck.

Duke said:
Dear god no.

I hope this is absolute rubbish, it would be terrible. Ad breaks, don't even want to think about that.

GravyMonster · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:11

ScottiB said:
Does anyone seriously watch or even care about BBC4?

I quite like BBC4. They have good documentaries (not like BBC3 with it's 'chavvy mothers being chavs' or 'freaky looking people being judged by public' docs). Plus it has Only Connect.

Skeeter · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:25

Does the BBC really need BBC3 and BBC4? Half the stuff is repeats, and the other half is just ****, and its only on for 12 hours a day anyway! Combine it into a single channel, ditch the repeats and problem solved.

IPAddis · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:27

When I heard this last night, I immediately counted 12 concurrent BBC programmes that I would ditch in favour of F1. Can't they just sell TV Centre, that must be worth a few bob for someone to turn into 1 bed flats?

Skeeter · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:31

They already are selling Television Centre.

Duke · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:31

IPAddis said:
When I heard this last night, I immediately counted 12 concurrent BBC programmes that I would ditch in favour of F1. Can't they just sell TV Centre, that must be worth a few bob for someone to turn into 1 bed flats?

They're just moving out of the building at the moment. The BBC is finally modernising, think they have a new building in Manchester or somewhere and selling the old ones.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/06_june/13/television.shtml

Talon · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:36

I see channel 4 are sniffing around the F1 rights, not sure I like the idea of adverts again tbh.

oldbag · 30 Jun 2011 at 21:39

It sucked on itv with breaks, so will suck on 4. Sky will probably take it.

Psycho Ned · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:03

Channel 4 doing F1 would surely be a disaster, can't believe their coverage would be anything other than done on the cheap! Even ITV would be better than them and thats saying something!

Duke · 30 Jun 2011 at 22:10

oldbag said:
It sucked on itv with breaks, so will suck on 4. Sky will probably take it.

Nope won't happen.

Alpherah · 1 Jul 2011 at 10:10

Duke said:
They're just moving out of the building at the moment. The BBC is finally modernising, think they have a new building in Manchester or somewhere and selling the old ones.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/06_june/13/television.shtml

They need to keep some premises down south, quite a few 'stars' of the BBC refuse to travel to Manchester.

Duke · 1 Jul 2011 at 10:32

Alpherah said:
They need to keep some premises down south, quite a few 'stars' of the BBC refuse to travel to Manchester.

Yup.

El_Watcher · 1 Jul 2011 at 13:50

Psycho Ned said:
Channel 4 doing F1 would surely be a disaster, can't believe their coverage would be anything other than done on the cheap! Even ITV would be better than them and thats saying something!

Probably get Endemol to produce it with commentary by the Geordie bloke from Big Brother.
[Geordie accent]Lap three and Jenson Button has entered the pits. Kimi is having an ice cream[/Geordie accent]

I am not against adverts, but having them every 15 minutes interupts the race too much. Couldn't they just have a rolling banner ads or pop ups like they have in America sometimes? They would get more adverts, but not interrupt the race viewing.

Skeeter · 1 Jul 2011 at 14:35

Football goes 45 minutes without adverts. Therefore it should be perfectly acceptable to have only a single add break during a ~90 minute race.

BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

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