Only half the F1 races on BBC next year

[Dracoro]

If you want to see all of them, then you need Sky Sports.

No doubt the Sky coverage will be worse, poorer pundits, ads etc. The BBC coverage will get worse too as no doubt Sky will poach Brundle etc.

I have Sky but don't like this move. There are certain things the BBC do well, F1 is one of them.

Viewing figures of F1 will plummet too.

[Riley Blue]

Which half, the start or the finish?

[Marto]

Totally agree.....

Having 'that lot' running F1 will be a shambles. Will have all the quality and feel of The News of the World with 'experts' commentary from people who will not know s**t from clay!

If Brundle and the rest move over moves, they have sold their souls to the devil!

What does my licence fee pay for???? Another series of Total Wipeout?? Disgrace.

Sad sad day!

[CharlieHotel]

Unbelievable. Evetually will be all the races.
Adverts, programme filled with rubbish, awful commentators.

[evenflow]

Seriously?! That's TERRIBLE. The BBC coverage has been excellent.

FFS

[miln0039]

Meh.

I'll get over it to be honest. Would imagine Brundle will be on both as he and Coulthard do the FIA commentary for all English speaking countries. So not really all that worried.

[spitfire-ian]

Brundle on Twitter said:

BBC/Sky/F1 2012+. Found out last night, no idea how it will work yet I'm out of contract, will calmly work through options Not impressed

Jake however is banging on about how it is a positive thing.

I think it's a rubbish idea.

[FartKong]

Its a joke. Im really pissed off about it. Even Martin Brundle said he only found out about it last night and he's not impressed either.

[otolith]

Oh FFS. So it will cost us £360 a year to have F1 in HD (or £243 for SD) for a channel which this household will watch literally nothing else on.

Will they do PPV? I don't want to pay for coverage of cricket, football, rugby and god only knows what else that I have zero interest in.

[FartKong]

I'll be damned if Im paying for sky rip off sports every month just for F1. Any races not live on BBC I'll be streaming over the net or downloading via torrent.

[blueg33]

Well pissed off! I am not paying for Sky Sports just to watch F1. I watch no other sport on TV(or at least nothing that I am prepared to pay for)

[young_bairn]

GRRRRRR

Pissed off with this. The BBC coverage has been great. Sky can ram it.

Looks like I will be streaming the F1 when this kicks in.

[SunnyD]

I'm gutted about this. Think they've made a huge mistake. They're going to lose a lot of fans and surely sponsors now too?

[anonymous-user]

I'd rather it stayed on BBC, but if Sky have invested good money in this you can guarantee they will put on a good show. There wont be adverts during the races and they will employ the best possible people for the commentary and pre-race shows. There will also be good coverage around the practice sessions and probably preview shows before the weekend.

Complain about having to pay for Sky as much as you like, but they are excellent at packaging and presenting sport.

[GWC]

I have watched the F1 for decades but I absolutely will not pay for a Sky subscription to watch it, I think they'll lose a lot of people from the UK next season.

[kelk]

Can't help but agree with the sentiments here. I won't pay for SS just to watch F1 - that's potentially 20 weekends, so a maximum of 60 days (minus Fridays really due to weorking) so that goes down to 40 days a year - less than 1/9th of the year.

[Eric Mc]

spitfire-ian said:

Brundle on Twitter said:

BBC/Sky/F1 2012+. Found out last night, no idea how it will work yet I'm out of contract, will calmly work through options Not impressed

Jake however is banging on about how it is a positive thing.

I think it's a rubbish idea.

He's obviously going to Sky on a much bigger salary.

[Eric Mc]

Bluequay said:

I'd rather it stayed on BBC, but if Sky have invested good money in this you can guarantee they will put on a good show. There wont be adverts during the races and they will employ the best possible people for the commentary and pre-race shows. There will also be good coverage around the practice sessions and probably preview shows before the weekend.

Complain about having to pay for Sky as much as you like, but they are excellent at packaging and presenting sport.

Are you sure?

Thay are being very coy about how they plan to show adverts during the race.

[H18 ENF]

That really is very disappointing, I wouldn't pay for Sky, I don't think they offer any real value for money and as was earlier suggested - watching F1 for 20 weekends isn't enough to make me go for it either, it just means I shall miss out on a great sport.

It's all well and good Bernie and pals trying to make the sport more exciting to watch season on season but then to sell it to bloody Sky will just mean that it's instantly less accessible to watch in the first place. Very disappointing move. :-(

[anonymous-user]

Eric Mc said:

Are you sure?

Thay are being very coy about how they plan to show adverts during the race.

According to the response by the sky editor in the comments section of this article then yes, no adverts during the race.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,,12433_7066182,00...