Are ITV sane ?
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Unless I stay up most of the night, I'd like ITV to tell me how, if they show qualifying so late (it finishes at 0040) then when are we supposed to watch it ? The race starts at 0600 !
Why not show it at lunchtime ? Is 'The Planets Funniest Animals' considered more important ?
Rob Sinfield.
Why not show it at lunchtime ? Is 'The Planets Funniest Animals' considered more important ?
Rob Sinfield.
ITV have really 
ed F1 telly for me. With their scheduling and incesant bloody adverts, their desire to give the dribbling masses their fix of Corry and not showing us the press conferences etc, it really is bad.
There is a thread elsewhere decrying the cost of the BBC, but I tell you, when its gone, you can forget ever seeing anything that remotely qualifies as quality TV ever again.
ed F1 telly for me. With their scheduling and incesant bloody adverts, their desire to give the dribbling masses their fix of Corry and not showing us the press conferences etc, it really is bad. There is a thread elsewhere decrying the cost of the BBC, but I tell you, when its gone, you can forget ever seeing anything that remotely qualifies as quality TV ever again.
Stop whinging about F1 coverage - that damn circus gets more airtime on terrestrial TV than all other 4-wheeled motorsport put together.
BTCC - only get one race live, the other two are highlights. Forget about the supporting races. Worse, it's often shown a weekend late if it clashes with "more important" sport such as F1!!!
WRC - 1 hour (less adverts, so actually 45-50mins) summary of 3 DAYS worth of racing! And too much of that is those t
ts telling us stuff we already know, as opposed to focusing on the events and the racing!
LM-series endurance racing: Only LM itself is shown, and then paltry highlights.
British GT? Forget it
WTCC? Forget it
DTM? Never heard of it
A1 GP? No publicity at all
JGTC? What's that then?
And that's without going into the myriad of other single-seater and production-class racing that exists in this country.
Why is motorsport viewing dropping in this country? Because everyone's fed-up of F1's current farce and hardly anyone sees how exciting the alternatives are to watch. Think back to the hey-day of BTCC - how it was a big TV-event every weekend. And how the WRC used to get 2x 1-hour and 1x 1/2 hour of a weekend.
BTCC - only get one race live, the other two are highlights. Forget about the supporting races. Worse, it's often shown a weekend late if it clashes with "more important" sport such as F1!!!
WRC - 1 hour (less adverts, so actually 45-50mins) summary of 3 DAYS worth of racing! And too much of that is those t
ts telling us stuff we already know, as opposed to focusing on the events and the racing! LM-series endurance racing: Only LM itself is shown, and then paltry highlights.
British GT? Forget it
WTCC? Forget it
DTM? Never heard of it
A1 GP? No publicity at all
JGTC? What's that then?
And that's without going into the myriad of other single-seater and production-class racing that exists in this country.
Why is motorsport viewing dropping in this country? Because everyone's fed-up of F1's current farce and hardly anyone sees how exciting the alternatives are to watch. Think back to the hey-day of BTCC - how it was a big TV-event every weekend. And how the WRC used to get 2x 1-hour and 1x 1/2 hour of a weekend.
richb said:
Stop whinging about F1 coverage...
Why? Just because you prefer to watch other types of racing doesn't alter the fact that ITV's coverage of F1 is crap. People have a perfectly valid opinion and I agree with them. ITV F1 coverage is rubbish.Rich...
Oh it is, I agree. But my point is it's far better than ANY other 4-wheeled motorsport. So it sounds rather churlish for F1 fans to bemoan their current situation.
and get rid of James Allen and bring back the BBC... 
Yep, I was proper pissed off when i saw they were only showing qualifying a few hours before the actual race. Why even bother showing it at midnight?! Not even the hardcore of F1 fans are gonna either stay up and watch both or bother to get a few hours kip in between!
I agree with other posts about the lack of any other racing coverage - particularly the WRC. I have become a big fan of rallying over the last few years but cant for the life of me stomach the scheduling of itv, if i hear about it at all.
Ive already had a close call watching the news on itv and they were just about to announce who had pole - yeah cheers! hadnt even had the chance to watch it and there they are telling us the result! W@nkers!!!
I agree with other posts about the lack of any other racing coverage - particularly the WRC. I have become a big fan of rallying over the last few years but cant for the life of me stomach the scheduling of itv, if i hear about it at all.
Ive already had a close call watching the news on itv and they were just about to announce who had pole - yeah cheers! hadnt even had the chance to watch it and there they are telling us the result! W@nkers!!!
I caught half of qualifying last weekend (and only because the bleedin' pub shut on time!). There were NO adverts! They still had breaks, but to advertise upcoming ITV shows! So the idiots know no-one's watching as the advertisers told them to b*gger off. Which means they were only showing it to keep to Bernie's contract.
Sure, I could go on about how bad the BTCC, WRC et coverage is but when ITV seem to be going through the motions not to get sued for a form of motorsport that will ALWAYS get the largest viewing figures (because of history, prestige, overall media coverage et al), it's a worrying situation.
Just imagine the outcry if they'd done this for soccer...
Sure, I could go on about how bad the BTCC, WRC et coverage is but when ITV seem to be going through the motions not to get sued for a form of motorsport that will ALWAYS get the largest viewing figures (because of history, prestige, overall media coverage et al), it's a worrying situation.
Just imagine the outcry if they'd done this for soccer...
To be honest bbc were just as bad All forms of motorsport will always take a back seat to things that get good veiwing figures no matter what channel its on.
All except motors tv of course but not all of us have a good channel in our grasp,even so they've not got the F1 rights anyway
So no matter what us the viewers think the tv stations will do whatever they like we'll just have to grin and bear it!!!
All except motors tv of course but not all of us have a good channel in our grasp,even so they've not got the F1 rights anyway
So no matter what us the viewers think the tv stations will do whatever they like we'll just have to grin and bear it!!!
Eric Mc said:
Over the years motor sport has gradually dropped from mainstream TV. Back in 60s and 70s there was lots more, mainly on BBC. Even as late as 1995 BBC were covering loads of forms of motor sport on their weekly magazine programme, Top Gear Motorsport.
Just think of the children luveee (not you of course Eric but the social engineering that has been carried out on our behalf)
MoJo.
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