Is Jake a plonker.......
Is Jake a plonker.......
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Chuggaboom

Original Poster:

1,152 posts

277 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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.....or being fed duff info ?

That's twice at the end of the prog he's said follow up with us by clicking the red button.....

....And twice I've found either nothing (can't remember the previous occaision) or this week mens athletics on 301 !

Or is it my TV set up ???

Tried the blue button to get the menu up and that didn't work at all...on either TV....as did neither actually using the red button from BBC 1 or 2 !

WTF !!!

TV techno's advice please or am I right and the service wasn't/hasn't been working ???

G.

Sorry if this has been covered on another thread.

davepoth

29,395 posts

228 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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What are you using for TV? Sky? Cable? Freeview? IPTV?

gingerpaul

2,929 posts

272 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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It worked for me on Sky. What were you using?

cuprabob

19,511 posts

243 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Freeview doesn't always show the forum on the red button (ch301). You need to go online to get the forum on such cases or sky / virgin

Shaw Tarse

31,886 posts

232 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Using freeview I got men's athletics.
Probably Jake being given duff info?

fatboy69

9,424 posts

216 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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No. Got straight onto the forum via Sky. Was a good bit of entertainment as well. I usd to think that Gary Anderson was a bi of a pillock.

However his description of the hole in the floor of the Red Bull, & the difference in the floor of the Sauber, was superbly done with the help of a piece of scrap paper & a biro.

Simple & easily explained. Good stuff.

Jasandjules

72,565 posts

258 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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The red button worked for me?!? Well, until they lost the picture..

anonymous-user

83 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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fatboy69 said:
No. Got straight onto the forum via Sky. Was a good bit of entertainment as well. I usd to think that Gary Anderson was a bi of a pillock.

However his description of the hole in the floor of the Red Bull, & the difference in the floor of the Sauber, was superbly done with the help of a piece of scrap paper & a biro.

Simple & easily explained. Good stuff.
Ted Kravitz did something similar

lbc

3,331 posts

246 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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I have never seen a Red Button on BBC HD Freeview.

heebeegeetee

30,124 posts

277 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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fatboy69 said:
No. Got straight onto the forum via Sky. Was a good bit of entertainment as well. I usd to think that Gary Anderson was a bi of a pillock.

However his description of the hole in the floor of the Red Bull, & the difference in the floor of the Sauber, was superbly done with the help of a piece of scrap paper & a biro.

Simple & easily explained. Good stuff.
I much prefer Gary Anderson drawing those diagrams on the hoof, as opposed to Ted Kravitz and his arty-farty pictures. smile

Shaw Tarse

31,886 posts

232 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Jake has finished presenting F1!





Until British GP.

fatboy69

9,424 posts

216 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Same here. The designer/engineer came out didnt it? Off the hoof, no pre-planning just a simple sketch on a scrap of paper.

Maybe thats how F1 cars should be designed these days!!!

.Adam.

1,867 posts

292 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Red button worked fine for me on Virgin.

anonymous-user

83 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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fatboy69 said:
Same here. The designer/engineer came out didnt it? Off the hoof, no pre-planning just a simple sketch on a scrap of paper.

Maybe thats how F1 cars should be designed these days!!!
HRT?

pingu393

10,948 posts

234 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Now I've seen Gary A with his pen & paper I think I could be an F1 car designer smile.

andyps

7,819 posts

311 months

Sunday 27th May 2012
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Two different locations and different TVs but both on freeview for the last race and this one and I couldn't get the forum on the red button, it was mens athletics today.

rdjohn

7,154 posts

224 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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I was really pleased when BBC signed Anderson as the detail of the car technology is so very important.

However, like John Watson, I find him very hard to listen to, particularly on the live links from the pit-lane – he has a very monotonous tone.

The OP is wrong, Jake is really very good, I originally thought that he lacked gravitas, but he is superb as anchorman; the little intro. piece with the McLaren duo at the start showed just how hard it must be with some producer shouting instructions at you all of the time.

Adrian W

15,449 posts

257 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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In answer to the OP, no he's not!

Oh and the forum was working fine

LordGrover

34,155 posts

241 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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You missed the best one yet.

After the wet T-shirt competition all the grid girls got naked, dancing around the pits.

stevejh

799 posts

233 months

Monday 28th May 2012
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The Forum wasn't on Freeview. It was Athletics and Springwatch webcams - great rolleyes