BBC possibly to drop F1 coverage...

Duke · 28 Nov 2011 at 11:14

sunama said:
If you fancy McKenzie...wait till you see the presenter that SKY will bring to replace her. You won't even be able to remember McKenzie's first name

The same one that did the A1 GP?

~Mike~ · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:21

Duke said:
The same one that did the A1 GP?

Can you post a picture?

Duke · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:28

Georgie Thompson

Skeeter · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:31

"Hi, thanks for calling Sky Customer Services, how can I help?"

"TAKE MY MONEY! TAKE IT NOW AND GIVE ME F1 AND HOTTIES!"

Talon · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:35

At least Georgie might look half way to being a full sized person stood next to people like Masa

beachBOYken · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:41

HI

Im on virgin media and have skysports 1 only , would i get f1 channel or must i have the full sports package?

thanks

Glaucus · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:42

beachBOYken said:
HI

Im on virgin media and have skysports 1 only , would i get f1 channel or must i have the full sports package?

thanks

It looks like you would need the sky had package. Although I don't know how it works on virgin.
Its £7 to get sky hd, but says you need sky sports/movies or another relevant package. Its confusing. Hopfully it'll be come much clearer soon.

Skeeter · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:48

Sky have stated there are no plans to put the channel on Freeview.

They have said nothing about Virgin, so I would assume they are still sorting out a deal and will provide details as an when they can.

Edit: Oh my...

beachBOYken · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:49

Glaucus said:
It looks like you would need the sky had package. Although I don't know how it works on virgin.
Its £7 to get sky hd, but says you need sky sports/movies or another relevant package. Its confusing. Hopfully it'll be come much clearer soon.

ah hope not , i like F1 but i won't pay extra for it!

cheers

Glaucus · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:53

Skeeter said:
Sky have stated there are no plans to put the channel on Freeview.

What was that £10 top up thing about? Or was it just made up media.

I hope they do release their exact plans soon, so I know what I need to do.

sunama · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:53

SKY do have a history of using attractive presenters/models.
The F1 team has its full quota of (old) men. They will definitely be using at least 1 presenter, within the team, who is female and just so happens to be very attractive.

I think the BBD are more politically correct and less obvious.

Still, I wouldn't watch F1 to see females. I watch it for the racing. If I want good looking women, there are 1000s of free porn websites which show beautiful women, going "all the way"...for free.

Duke · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:57

I'm going to wait to hear more info about the Sky channel deals. We have VM in the house so don't mind paying to add an F1 channel on there but would prefer to have it via Freesat. Still got the fall back option of RTL of course

Skeeter · 28 Nov 2011 at 12:58

Sky have confirmed that it will not be shown on Freesat or Freeview. (at least, thats what Mr Men posted a few pages back, referencing Sky as the source).

Glaucus · 28 Nov 2011 at 13:01

Duke said:
I'm going to wait to hear more info about the Sky channel deals. We have VM in the house so don't mind paying to add an F1 channel on there but would prefer to have it via Freesat. Still got the fall back option of RTL of course

This although I don't want a new 12month contract.
£10 a month extra on top of virgin is acceptable for f1 anymore and I'll try going down the freestat route.

Will · 28 Nov 2011 at 13:07

Skeeter said:
"TAKE MY MONEY! TAKE IT NOW AND GIVE ME F1 AND HOTTIES!"

I hope they get Hayley McQueen presenting! Prefer her to Georgie Thompson

dannyjo22 · 28 Nov 2011 at 13:09

Although I don't want to cave in because for all other viewing for the last 5 years Freeview is all we need I can see myself caving in. It's a lot of money just for 10 F1 races.

What I will probably do is wait until the first couple of races have run. If it looks like Redbull still have a huge advantage I can get by with highlights for half the races tbh. If it looks like being a close season I will bite the bullet and slap one of those horrible dishes on my house.

Nick1881 · 28 Nov 2011 at 14:08

Ok so I might be a bit slow with this, but if you have Sky HD then you can watch the F1 channel too?

If so then I'm very happy, makes my HD subscription excellent value for money.

Skeeter · 28 Nov 2011 at 14:15

Yes.

Sky Sports F1 (HD) is free for any current subscribers to either the Sky Sports 1/2 package, or the Sky HD package.

GravyMonster · 28 Nov 2011 at 16:16

Sky have just dropped a teaser about the new F1 channel:

No real insights, just confirms that there's no charge for existing SS customers. You can get more info on it all on twitter if you followe @SkySportsF1.

I'm hoping they move all motorsports to the F1 channel, NASCAR, Indycars etc. As well as the rumour that the F1 channel will show live coverage of all support races - a bit like ITV4 does for BTCC.

Duke · 28 Nov 2011 at 16:50

Spunkey said:
As well as the rumour that the F1 channel will show live coverage of all support races - a bit like ITV4 does for BTCC.

Now that would be good.