SKY F1 Viewing figures
Discussion
marcosgt said:
No surprise the numbers are down as you now have to pay to watch it.
Personally, I'm good with just seeing the race, with a short delay (Was China on live, btw?) - I marvel at how much of my weekend I use to waste watching practice and qualifying during peak 'doing something useful' hours.
I don't feel I've lost anything by not having live F1 coverage - It's great!
M.
With you on that .Personally, I'm good with just seeing the race, with a short delay (Was China on live, btw?) - I marvel at how much of my weekend I use to waste watching practice and qualifying during peak 'doing something useful' hours.
I don't feel I've lost anything by not having live F1 coverage - It's great!
M.
BliarOut said:
Morally he's paid for this years coverage via his TV licence, unfortunately he got stitched up by a commercial deal...
Yep, i only paid my tv licence because i watched every single part of formula one, either live or on i-player.Since i dont get that anymore but im not willing to give up my formula 1 i download it all on torrents.
I would cancel my tv licence completely if i could get my girlfriend to stop watching soaps.
Do i feel formula 1 is worth paying £500 for........no
But then i watch all movies, sports, tv shows by torrents anyway so this doesnt even pop up on my morale compass
turbotoaster said:
Yep, i only paid my tv licence because i watched every single part of formula one, either live or on i-player.
Since i dont get that anymore but im not willing to give up my formula 1 i download it all on torrents.
I would cancel my tv licence completely if i could get my girlfriend to stop watching soaps.
Do i feel formula 1 is worth paying £500 for........no
But then i watch all movies, sports, tv shows by torrents anyway so this doesnt even pop up on my morale compass
What about your moral compass? Since i dont get that anymore but im not willing to give up my formula 1 i download it all on torrents.
I would cancel my tv licence completely if i could get my girlfriend to stop watching soaps.
Do i feel formula 1 is worth paying £500 for........no
But then i watch all movies, sports, tv shows by torrents anyway so this doesnt even pop up on my morale compass
Dubai said:
What specific sponsors are there to the UK market?
Disregarding the 2m drop, the UK is still one of the smaller countries in terms of viewers. I'd be surprised if a company sponsors an F1 team purely to target UK viewers.
You got any figures to back that up? I have tried before to find viewing figures for F1 and its a bit like looking for hens teeth.Disregarding the 2m drop, the UK is still one of the smaller countries in terms of viewers. I'd be surprised if a company sponsors an F1 team purely to target UK viewers.
I think you will find that actually the UK, Germany, Spain, and Italy have the highest viewing figures, certainly provide most of the TV income.
Ive found the sky news updates on the F1 a little bit frustrating. I dont want to get up at stupid o'clock on a sunday morning to watch it live, so I sky plus it and watch it later. First thing in the morning i like to catch up on the news with a coffee and watch the F1 later from the start when i get chance but its just not the same with sky news constantly reporting on who is leading and who's out of the race etc. BBC always ignored the race until after the second showing of the race later on.
uncle tez said:
Ive found the sky news updates on the F1 a little bit frustrating. I dont want to get up at stupid o'clock on a sunday morning to watch it live, so I sky plus it and watch it later. First thing in the morning i like to catch up on the news with a coffee and watch the F1 later from the start when i get chance but its just not the same with sky news constantly reporting on who is leading and who's out of the race etc. BBC always ignored the race until after the second showing of the race later on.
I was at Brands on Sunday so had to miss the GP and the football, sky plussed both and couldn't go near my phone all day (it has auto updating widgets) couldn't listen to the radio anything 
Someone asked what figures Sky get for a big ticket football match, they are lucky if they hit 3m viewers, usually about 1.5m, most of their regular output does not even beat C5's viewing figures.
It amazes me how 10m+ Sky subscribers watch so little Sky TV, they're paying for a service they never watch, £60+/m for a few games and a couple of races. But as someone already said, Sky are not interested in viewing figures, just money, if they can get people to spend quite large sums of money on a product they don't use then fair play to Sky!
It amazes me how 10m+ Sky subscribers watch so little Sky TV, they're paying for a service they never watch, £60+/m for a few games and a couple of races. But as someone already said, Sky are not interested in viewing figures, just money, if they can get people to spend quite large sums of money on a product they don't use then fair play to Sky!
cjs said:
£60+/m for a few games and a couple of races.
For everything, perhaps. However, I have the Entertainment Plus and HD package and it costs me £41pcmcjs said:
But as someone already said, Sky are not interested in viewing figures, just money, if they can get people to spend quite large sums of money on a product they don't use then fair play to Sky!
Indeed. I think it was me that said that subscriptions are more important than viewing figures for a subscription service like Sky, and I stand by that. Bedazzled said:
Dunno, BARB only lists the top 30 programmes per channel and F1 is swamped by all the soaps and reality shows on BBC1. I think it's interesting though, their average measure is more representative of actual bums on seats than the 'peak' figures, imo.
Bahrain figures will be available next Wednesday, it will be interesting to see if people stayed away or were drawn in by the controversy.
Would be interesting to see if the Beeb were down much on last year though? Is Spain live on both? That would make a good comparison being the first GP at a reasonable hour....Bahrain figures will be available next Wednesday, it will be interesting to see if people stayed away or were drawn in by the controversy.
And Bernie is now suggesting that the BBC can be dropped altogether : http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jun/07/bernie...
Matt.. said:
That totally depends on the sponsor and their target market.
Remember that if you really want to target a specific audience then doing it with the BBC viewers is just s
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