Only half the F1 races on BBC next year

[GTDNB]

I'm out. showing half of the races on BBC is utterly pointless. what fan is going to be happy with that? the only choice is to get Sky and that isn't going to happen in my house especially after recent events.
what a load of bks

[Alex]

SniffPetrol said:

Make the next GP feel like it's on Sky by throwing £30 away and then turning your TV off every 10 minutes

[pokethepope]

F1 is arguably this country's most succesful sport - two very recent world champions is a very big deal, but to also have the majority of the teams based here is huge.

So can someone explain to me why the fk it isn't on that government list where it has to be available on free to air TV, or is it like cricket where showing highlights on C5 is enough?

[GTDNB]

wasn't the BBC deal supposed to be 5 years from 2009? i guess they just don't have the cash anymore.

[jjones]

have sky but not sports, will not be paying for sports just to watch it, especially as the cost of hd is crazy. looks like they lost me as a viewer.

[pokethepope]

GTDNB said:

wasn't the BBC deal supposed to be 5 years from 2009? i guess they just don't have the cash anymore.

It was a toss up between F1 and minority sports IIRC. They really should have dumped darts, athletics, snooker etc etc but I think the cost of F1 would mean they would have to cancel every minority sport, so F1 got the chop, even though it probably gets more viewers than all minority sports combined.

[anonymous-user]

pokethepope said:

F1 is arguably this country's most succesful sport - two very recent world champions is a very big deal, but to also have the majority of the teams based here is huge.

So can someone explain to me why the fk it isn't on that government list where it has to be available on free to air TV, or is it like cricket where showing highlights on C5 is enough?

I'm glad it's not, infact nothing should be on that list. The people involved in F1 spend all the money putting on the races and building the cars, who are the government to say who they can and can't sell the TV rights to.

How would you like it if you created a product, and then the government told you, you could only sell it to company A, thereby giving company A no incentive but to pay you the bare minimum to make it worth your while producing it?

[FartKong]

Every single person Ive spoke to and on every single forum everyone is angry about this. Bernie and co can kiss my ass. I'll not be paying for sky sports just for this. C***S!!!

[ally_f]

Massively disappointing, +1 for not being able to continue watching it next year, sky's a rip off already, without paying extra for Sports.

[bigbubba]

I am not really that concerned about it.

I already have sky so it doesn't affect me.

I hope the commentary team will go over to Sky, I can't see why they wouldn't.

I don't blame the rights holders for selling to the highest bidder, why shouldn't they?
It is a commercial decision. In fact getting the most TV money for the teams is the best thing for the little fish.

It can only be a good thing for the sport.

[H18 ENF]

bigbubba said:

I am not really that concerned about it.

I already have sky so it doesn't affect me.

I hope the commentary team will go over to Sky, I can't see why they wouldn't.

I don't blame the rights holders for selling to the highest bidder, why shouldn't they?
It is a commercial decision. In fact getting the most TV money for the teams is the best thing for the little fish.

It can only be a good thing for the sport.

There's always one isn't there

[Jasandjules]

Time to complain to the BBC......

I thought it was not permitted to be run on Pay channels?

[FartKong]

Part of the Concorde agreement said something about having to be broadcast on free to air tv but apparentlty Bernie found some clauses to get out of it. Prick.

[Teppic]

GTDNB said:

I'm out. showing half of the races on BBC is utterly pointless. what fan is going to be happy with that?

Welcome to the late 1980's, when that it precicely what we had, and were grateful for. Progress, eh?

[SamAlien]

GTDNB said:

I'm out. showing half of the races on BBC is utterly pointless. what fan is going to be happy with that? the only choice is to get Sky and that isn't going to happen in my house especially after recent events.
what a load of bks

I don't get this... why not watch half of the races? I don't see how that's pointless at all. Not ideal, but not pointless.

I'm certainly not going to be boycotting the BBC because of this.

[attym3]

Didn't the BBC win a Grammy for the F1 coverage?
FFS this is such a bad move.

Mark

[Jackman72]

Don't think adverts will be such a big problem in qually there is a logical gap between the q1, q2 and q3 for the race just before the world feed goes live (5 mins before the off). And after the race before the podium. Not perfect but it is the Beeb who have sold the fans down the swanny

[toasty]

I don't mind F1 coming to Sky at all. BBC do a good job with it and so will Sky.

BBC is not free to view, you are legally obliged to pay for it if you own a TV.

Sky is optional.

I, for one, would be sorely pissed if the mandatory TV licence went up so the minority who want to watch F1 can do for less money.

[HarryW]

toasty said:

I don't mind F1 coming to Sky at all. BBC do a good job with it and so will Sky.

BBC is not free to view, you are legally obliged to pay for it if you own a TV.

Sky is optional.

I, for one, would be sorely pissed if the mandatory TV licence went up so the minority who want to watch F1 can do for less money.

When you say the minority who watch F1, I think you may find that that minority are a significant demography i.e. those that pay the licence fee, foot the house hold bills and watch two things on main stream BBC; Top Gear and F1, having already given up on the biased news reporting and the Labour candidate/shop steward training ground that is Question Time.
Why should the license fee go up for them, they already pay for receiving very little.
I smell bernies little money grabbing hands in this, it's about time he retired tbh.

[SamAlien]

toasty said:

I, for one, would be sorely pissed if the mandatory TV licence went up so the minority who want to watch F1 can do for less money.

What if they didn't raise the fee, but reduced their output of crap that does nobody any good anyway. Go back to fewer channels and more selective programming I say.