BBC to pull out of F1 entirely.

BBC to pull out of F1 entirely.

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hornetrider

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63,161 posts

204 months

Tuesday 17th November 2015
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otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Tuesday 17th November 2015
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The Beeb just gets better and better value for money. hehe

johnfm

13,668 posts

249 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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otolith said:
The Beeb just gets better and better value for money. hehe
If the BBC pay a penny for the dull procession that is F1, dropping F1 increases the VFM for every licence payer.

F1 isn't a viewing experience worth paying for sadly. Very few races are anything other than a foregone conclusion with virtually zero racing.


Ali2202

3,815 posts

203 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Will not miss it. Ball dropped on a multitude of levels within and without.

Trouble is, the WEC will be be so far out of a Beeb hipster's knowledge-zone they will not even think about that as an alternative. No class/style anymore when it comes to Motorsport you see?....


otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Each to their own, but it's the only sport shown on the BBC I have any interest in whatsoever. Golf? Cricket? Tennis? sleep

Still, I've got it on Sky, so I'm alright, Jack.

Ali2202

3,815 posts

203 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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otolith said:
Each to their own, but it's the only sport shown on the BBC I have any interest in whatsoever. Golf? Cricket? Tennis? sleep

Still, I've got it on Sky, so I'm alright, Jack.
Tennis is good. When they choose to spend the money on it over glass-temples.....

Jonesy23

4,650 posts

135 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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This is about getting attention rather than being a genuine money saving exercise, Hall has a lot of previous with this sort of thing. I suspect that proper cost savings like cutting salaries for the 'talent' (no point paying £LOTS for radio or TV presenters, there's nowhere else for most of them to work) or dropping spending on tired entertainment formats or sending hoards to cover things like Glastonbury might be better cost savings.

News operations could be trimmed too, there are a lot of staff employed to generate not a lot of content.

And after all when they dropped half of F1 all they got for the money was the rights to the Voice, and even then not for very long. Great use of the budget.

thegreenhell

15,115 posts

218 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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If this is the end of free-to-air F1 then it is also the end of my F1 viewership. I wouldn't pay for the current 'show', and certainly not to the Murdoch empire. I've already become accustomed to only catching the highlights rather than the full live broadcast, so maybe in future I'll be satisfied to just look up the results on Monday morning.

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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thegreenhell said:
If this is the end of free-to-air F1 then it is also the end of my F1 viewership. I wouldn't pay for the current 'show', and certainly not to the Murdoch empire. I've already become accustomed to only catching the highlights rather than the full live broadcast, so maybe in future I'll be satisfied to just look up the results on Monday morning.
Same thoughts ran through my head.

0000

13,812 posts

190 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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johnfm said:
If the BBC pay a penny for the dull procession that is F1, dropping F1 increases the VFM for every licence payer.

F1 isn't a viewing experience worth paying for sadly. Very few races are anything other than a foregone conclusion with virtually zero racing.
Last time they sold out half exclusively to Sky the money went on The Voice. I can't see them getting more than that this time.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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The thread title is rather misleading. The article suggests a possibility but not a certainty.

Derek Smith

45,514 posts

247 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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It was always on the cards that the contract would not be renewed.

Look on the bright side: Cameron has promised more religious programmes.

This will hurt the CVC sale to an extent, although any potential purchaser would have taken into account that the BBC might be forced to drop it.

If this does happen, and I think it probably will, I'll still pay for the occasional NowTV race, but probably just the tracks I like.

I didn't pay for Austin and that took some of the anticipation from last Sunday.

It was always going to happen. ITV got its fingers burned last time and I can't see them stepping in.

Let's hope for more coverage of other high level motorsports, such as WEC, DTM and national GT racing. But let's not hold our breaths.

I'd say this would be the death of F1 as a mainstream sport in this country. Without a big fanbase watching the sport, the papers will not cover it.




moanthebairns

17,918 posts

197 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Just looked its £29 to add sky to my virgin, and another £7.50 if I want it in HD, £350 a year for F1 . laughlaughlaughlaughlaughlaugh

n3il123

2,602 posts

212 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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thegreenhell said:
If this is the end of free-to-air F1 then it is also the end of my F1 viewership. I wouldn't pay for the current 'show', and certainly not to the Murdoch empire. I've already become accustomed to only catching the highlights rather than the full live broadcast, so maybe in future I'll be satisfied to just look up the results on Monday morning.
This is pretty much me these days, catch it if I happen to be somewhere that it is on, if not I just catch the gist of whats happening on line. If BBC don't have it at all then I will probably start look for "the gist" less and less too.

LordGrover

33,531 posts

211 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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If it happens, and ITV or another free to air broadcaster doesn't take it up I'll be disappointed. For weeks. Then I'll get over it.

Clearly, what we need is more talent and cooking shows. Which is what we all want, right?

angrymoby

2,605 posts

177 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Derek Smith said:
Look on the bright side: Cameron has promised more religious programmes.
without getting all 'political' this is the usual imho Tory MO ...knacker the things you want to be 'privatised' & then carve it up & sell it to your mates

Same thing is going on with the NHS


ajprice

27,318 posts

195 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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moanthebairns said:
Just looked its £29 to add sky to my virgin, and another £7.50 if I want it in HD, £350 a year for F1 . laughlaughlaughlaughlaughlaugh
Don't have Sky, so I've just had a look at the Now TV Sky Sports passes. 21 x 24 hour passes would be £146.79. £230.79 for 21 x week passes.

http://www.nowtv.com/sports

Hmmm.

London424

12,826 posts

174 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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moanthebairns said:
Just looked its £29 to add sky to my virgin, and another £7.50 if I want it in HD, £350 a year for F1 . laughlaughlaughlaughlaughlaugh
You moan about F1 all the time, I'm not sure why you'd watch it even if it was free!

suffolk009

5,344 posts

164 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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Last time I looked Sky F1 viewing numbers were down.

It's across the board lack of interest - my teenage children have zero interest in motorsport.

I know I sound like a moans-a-lot, "it was better in my day", but F1 is a sport in serious decline.

Anyway, my only immediate worry is that Sky will end up with some of the BBC's redundant "talent".

enjo

339 posts

137 months

Wednesday 18th November 2015
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If beeb drop it then that's probably it for me with F1 too, which is sad.
On the plus side I might have some time for touring cars on ITV!