*** The SKY F1 2012 Coverage Thread ***
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Do all sky customers get a preview of the f1 channel before it starts proper?
We haven't paid for sky sports or sky hd and I'm watching the '88 season review right now. Is this coverage gonna go away when the season starts?
I assumed the channel for me would just be a "call this number to get this channel" job.
We haven't paid for sky sports or sky hd and I'm watching the '88 season review right now. Is this coverage gonna go away when the season starts?
I assumed the channel for me would just be a "call this number to get this channel" job.
Nope its not a separate PPV channel. Cheapest way is just to upgrade to HD with them which is £10 a month. Well worth it anyway if you have a HD TV.
So I don't have the channel? Again, not sure how I am able to watch it at the moment?
Odd. Might be a free weekend? Are the rest of the Sports channels encrypted then F1 isn't? It is after SS4.
Expect this from all the old season reviews, they where produced by the FOM (Or what ever the FOM was back then) and have nothing to do with Sky.
It could be worse, I remember Jonathan Ross narrating one at some point *Cringe*
Anyone else find the Sky preview show a little old hat. I mean, it had all the ingredients, but it still seemed a little half baked. I also think Sky have missed out with technical side of the team, a former technical director of some kind would have been a good addition. I don't know why they felt the need to chuck in an idiot who knows nothing to go and look around F1. If you present information in a clear and consistent way, the rest of the presentation team should easily be able to inform the viewer, rather than dumbing it down.
The adverts just ruined the flow too, if you think about what MB has said "wall to wall F1", but with hours of adverts chucked in.
The adverts just ruined the flow too, if you think about what MB has said "wall to wall F1", but with hours of adverts chucked in.
Good. Hopefully people will get pee'd off with the sky coverage and it'll all come back to BBC.
The people who are going to get ****** off first (aside from those of us who cant stand the thought of murdoch getting a single penny) will be the team and track sponsors suddenly realising that they are getting 5,000,000 less sets eyes on their logo's.
That will be the trigger for the end of this stupid situation.
So our best hope is that everything sky shows bombs, call this season a write off which it already is for many of us and hope for a good one next year.
That will be the trigger for the end of this stupid situation.
So our best hope is that everything sky shows bombs, call this season a write off which it already is for many of us and hope for a good one next year.
Doubt it as they still won't be able to afford it.
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1) They're not going to care about '5m less eyes' watching in the UK when their target markets these days will be the emerging Eastern countries where 5m viewers is a drop in the ocean.
2) Murdoch owning the TV rights means he can't bid to buy F1 when CVC look to offload it in a couple of years time. Having Sky as a broadcaster is the lesser of two evils.
ITV had it, decided it was too expensive compared to income and asked the BBC to take over. have you only been living in the Uk for 3 years or something?