Did anyone else get Sky for F1?

deuse said:
So you agree that everyone in the UK could have watch F1 for free on channel 4?
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Sure, if Channel 4 were able to out bid Sky. But they can't.

I'm not saying that once discussions were open Bernie didn't make a B line for Sky as fast as possible ignoring any other bids (I bet he lunged for his pen with pound signs in his eyes), I'm saying that discussions weren't opened by Bernie going to Sky after the BBC refused to pay more (as Kerming suggested), they were opened by the BBC and Sky going to Bernie after the BBC decided they needed to find a cheaper option than their existing contract. Bernie has been quite open that he had no discussions with Sky, or any idea any discussions were going on with them, until the BBC and Sky came to him with a proposal.

The catalyst for this whole situation was the freeze on TV licences and the BBC's need to cut costs.
 
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Am all ready for my install now, spent today running the shotgun sat cable from the dish to the receiver and installing a phone point by the TV.
Was a bit of a mission having to drill through nearly 3 foot think walls ! I ended up having to weld a bit of threaded bar to my drill bit as it wasnt long enough.
Can't stand the usual sky installs where sat cable is running all over the external house walls

(I have an existing dish with only a single feed)
 
deuse said:
I'm going to do a Dolph...citation needed.
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You are seriously going to try and keep this argument going by now claiming that Channel 4 have a budget that matches Sky? Really? Your that desperate?

OK....

Channel 4 Television Company:
Revenue £935.2 million (2010)
Operating income £49.3 million (2010)
Net income £38.6 million (2010)
Source

BSkyB:
Revenue £5.912 billion (2010)
Operating income £1.096 billion (2010)
Net income £878 million (2010)
Sorce
 
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JamesRJ said:
Am all ready for my install now, spent today running the shotgun sat cable from the dish to the receiver and installing a phone point by the TV.
Was a bit of a mission having to drill through nearly 3 foot think walls ! I ended up having to weld a bit of threaded bar to my drill bit as it wasnt long enough.
Can't stand the usual sky installs where sat cable is running all over the external house walls

(I have an existing dish with only a single feed)
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Best idea mate, I ran in both my feeds and phone lines. The "engineer" helped me with the feeds but I was doing the donkey work in the loft etc. Much much nicer install. He wanted to throw the cable over the roof etc lol
 
Where did you pull that £40-£45m shared figure from?

The BBC replaced a £40m a year contract with a £20m one, with Sky on a £45m a year contract.

And just lol at the thought that Channel 4 were going to provide 'better coverage' than the BBC or Sky. For a start, they have adverts, and quite how they planned to provide 'more live racing' than the BBC when the BBC were already showing every F1 session live I don't know :p.

You just can't let this drop can you?
 
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deuse said:
The deal was never up for auction so it does not matter how much sky have in the bank.
As bernie said it was all done in two hours.

The BBC pay between £40-£45m a season this will be shared by sky.
Channel 4 was going ot do it better then the BBC and sky http://www.graphicalhouse.co.uk/#/projects/channel-4
http://duncanblog.dailymail.co.uk/2...id-to-keep-formula-one-on-terrestrial-tv.html

Yes I know a daily fail :D
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I love how that graphical house presentation uses numbers instead of letters in the headlines. Looks so professional, or is this how the media world works?

As to being better than the Beeb and Sky. Just remember their commitment to WRC. Banner headlines about primetime coverage of each event. In the 2nd year of their contract it was reduced to random graveyard slots, and they couldn't even be bothered do the 3rd year.
 
Skeeter said:
Where did you pull that £40-£45m shared figure from?
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From the letter by Mark Thompson MP and loads of other places(just google)
"If they [Channel 4] had said they wanted to sign a contract today to start broadcasting for £45m a year"

Also BBC was paying £40-£45m per season thats on the net to.

http://bathlibdems.org.uk/en/articl...-thompson-on-the-formula-1-broadcasting-issue

Back to F1...

Just found this
"The move is expected to save the corporation at least £25 million per year. It currently pays Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Management (FOM) company £40 million per season for sole broadcasting rights."

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/171697/1/bbc_faced_losing_f1_altogether_without_sky_deal.html
 
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Surely from that quote its clear that Channel 4 didn't want to sign a contract to start broadcasting for £45m a year...

Sky did, with the BBC having an additional £20m contract. No surprise that Bernie went with them then...

Quite why you feel the need to continually bang on about this as if Sky have done you some highly personal wrong I don't know. The rest of the world have moved on, at least try and keep up.
 
Alibaba99 said:
I love how that graphical house presentation uses numbers instead of letters in the headlines. Looks so professional, or is this how the media world works?
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Yeah its hard to think why they would use the number 4 or 1 in strategic places when its a presentation from C4 to handle F1 coverage...

Just doesnt make sense at all...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
But that quote said that if C4 had offered £45m they would have signed.

They didn't sign, so surely that means they didn't offer £45m? :confused:

And the BBC/Sky deal is worth £65m anyway.

And I don't really feel like 'just googling for a few hours', as everything has already been said and discussed and argued to death months ago. You just seem to want to keep reminding us how annoyed you are.

We get it, your not happy, poor you.

And lol @ SkyBoy. It seems you can't make any counter argument on here without getting some childish title.
 
Guys i have got Sky but my grandad doesn't. I am thinking to give him my Sky Go details but he is only on a limited broadband package.

How much will F1 use in terms of download?

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
Biz.Kid09 said:
Guys i have got Sky but my grandad doesn't. I am thinking to give him my Sky Go details but he is only on a limited broadband package.

How much will F1 use in terms of download?

Any ideas?

Thanks
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It depends how he watches it; if it's on a PC he can choose the low bandwidth setting which really doesn't use that much, the quality leaves a lot to be desired though. Best thing to do is try Sky Go on your own computer using a bandwidth monitor just to make sure :)
 
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