*** The SKY F1 2012 Coverage Thread ***
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Don't forget the many ways you can watch your Sky F1
I will give them the iPad app, simply superb.
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Just thinking about this. Didn't the BBC show the Australian GP again around lunchtime? Are those figures accounted for anywhere?
Then F1 was on at 2.pm till 4pm..BUT some figures here
"According to the Guardian, an average of 526,000 fans tuned in between 04:30 and 09:00 GMT on Sunday (March 18th 2012) to watch Jenson Button take the spoils at Melbourne's Albert Park circuit, although viewing numbers peaked at 1.02 million at the end of the race"
"However, audience figures for the first grand prix to be shown exclusively live by Sky were down by 75 per cent on BBC One's coverage of the race last season"
http://www.cable.co.uk/news/sky-spo...-viewers-for-australian-grand-prix-801321822/
" Sky Sports spokesman refused to be drawn on the specific viewing figures"
I said a few weeks ago that sky would not beat their max live sport of 1.5m and they never will. BBC Rules
This is an utterly pointless point they are trying to make.
In 2011 the potential audience of the first race was every TV license holder in the UK (25m), while Sky have only 10m TV customers. Even if you assume that every one of those customers has either the Sports or the HD pack, that still means the potential audience for this years first race is only 40% of that of last years. The 75% drop figure is (deliberately?) misleading. It was physically impossible for Sky to get anything over 40% of last years figures when looking at pure viewers alone.
A more accurate figure would be a % of potential total audience.
2011 - 2.13m from 25m = 8.5%
2012 - 874,000 from 10m = 8.7%
And thats assuming all 10m Sky subscribers get SSF1, which they wont. The actual Sky figure is probably nearer to 10%.
So actually, when you look at the number of people who could watch the race live this year, a higher percentage of that potential audience actually chose to watch it this year than last year.
But that's a far more complicated and less headline grabbing story to run with...
Sky will be launching a new service called 'NOW TV' later this year. It might be another way of watching F1. Talk of expanding to offer sport.
http://corporate.sky.com/investors/press_releases/2012/now_tv
http://corporate.sky.com/investors/press_releases/2012/now_tv
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But like I said, those figures alone mean nothing.
2m less people watched the race live, but from a potential audience at least 15m people fewer. Using the figures alone is missleading when the total audience pool has changed so dramatically.
Its not 3m from 25m last year compared to 1m from 25m this year. Its 3m from 25m last year (12%) compaired to 1m from 10m this year (10%) (assuming all 10m Sky customers have SSF1, which they don't, but I have no more accurate figures).
They have also included the rerun figure from BBC last year, but no re-run figures from Sky this year (because Sky haven't released them).
Basically (shock horror) the media have manipulated the figures to create headlines.
2m less people watched the race live, but from a potential audience at least 15m people fewer. Using the figures alone is missleading when the total audience pool has changed so dramatically.
Its not 3m from 25m last year compared to 1m from 25m this year. Its 3m from 25m last year (12%) compaired to 1m from 10m this year (10%) (assuming all 10m Sky customers have SSF1, which they don't, but I have no more accurate figures).
They have also included the rerun figure from BBC last year, but no re-run figures from Sky this year (because Sky haven't released them).
Basically (shock horror) the media have manipulated the figures to create headlines.
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Bah! Sky Go has stopped working on my phone. I was hoping to watch the FP replays 
One thing I've noticed which I'm not too happy about.
No full race, no full practice 3 & no full qualifying just damn highlights on anytime+
Another +1 point for BBC having everything on iPlayer! Really wanted to watch Practice 3 from today but meh can't watch it cause they aren't rerunning it. Just the qualifying!
I just noticed 3am in the morning they are showing the rerun of practice 3.
Not impressed :/
No full race, no full practice 3 & no full qualifying just damn highlights on anytime+
Another +1 point for BBC having everything on iPlayer! Really wanted to watch Practice 3 from today but meh can't watch it cause they aren't rerunning it. Just the qualifying!
I just noticed 3am in the morning they are showing the rerun of practice 3.
Not impressed :/
I watched the full race yesterday on Anytime+ to test out my new surround sound
You are missing something
I watch all my TV online on Sky Go & Tvcatchup. Parents control the TV downstairs, I should get multiroom but this way has always worked for me until now
No one in my family wants to watch practice sessions
Races sure everything else nope. But it still remains that the BBC did this just fine why can't the "awesome" new F1 channel not have the option?
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the BBC never put FP3 on iplayer though, it is annoying having to wait for the sessions to come back round to watch them again. but starting at 10:45pm tonight all the sessions are played back to back