SKY F1 Viewing figures
Discussion
Dubai said:
Naff comment imo.
F1 has a global audience of 500-550m, do you really think 2m viewers from the UK will cause a sponsor to cut budgets? No.
Aren't they Bernie's claimed figures and widely regarded to be bullsF1 has a global audience of 500-550m, do you really think 2m viewers from the UK will cause a sponsor to cut budgets? No.
t, with everybody watching anything F1 counted as a viewer everytime they watch something.So if you watch Qualifying the race and the highlights for Australia you are 3 viewers, do this for the whole season and you are 48 viewers!!
Bluequay said:
Dubai said:
Naff comment imo.
F1 has a global audience of 500-550m, do you really think 2m viewers from the UK will cause a sponsor to cut budgets? No.
Aren't they Bernie's claimed figures and widely regarded to be bullsF1 has a global audience of 500-550m, do you really think 2m viewers from the UK will cause a sponsor to cut budgets? No.
t, with everybody watching anything F1 counted as a viewer everytime they watch something.So if you watch Qualifying the race and the highlights for Australia you are 3 viewers, do this for the whole season and you are 48 viewers!!
Matt.. said:
That totally depends on the sponsor and their target market.
What specific sponsors are there to the UK market?Disregarding the 2m drop, the UK is still one of the smaller countries in terms of viewers. I'd be surprised if a company sponsors an F1 team purely to target UK viewers.
Alfa numeric said:
IIRC it's worse than that. If you channel hop during the coverage you're counted as a viewer every time you go back to it- so if you flick over to another channel twice during the coverage you're counted as three viewers. Someone in another thread also said that if you watch a news bulletin that contains some coverage you're counted as a viewer.
I found reference to that method of counting from a report from 2004. Apparently they changed it that year to be a lot more accurate.LotusMartin said:
Skys coverage is awesome - SOO much better than the BBC. Best thing that's happened in F1 since DRS
I thought the Sky practice/quali coverage was good but once they started going to that airheaded tart Georgie Thompson I'd had enough.Still prefer Jake/Eddie/DC for the race day build up
GentleFellow said:
I hope Sky gets the rights to Wimbledon next; think about how your one-off subscription fee of £50 will improve the fortnight... replace Sue Barker with Anna Kournikova; get Stelling in for McEnroe; James Corden in for Cash; Ian Botham for Tim Henman; page three models for ball boys; ad breaks between games featuring ads for the channel itself; increased prize money from £1m to £1b; interactive camera angles from umpire's chair and royal box; glossed creamy lens; Sky logo on all player's shirts; Centre court repainted red and blue; informal chat with players replaced with two minute computer-generated graphics about the types of grass used... Come on Rupert!
You haven't actually watched the Sky F1 channel, have you. P-Jay said:
The most telling figures will be for the China race. How many of those Sky viewers will they keep on a like-for-like live race basis.
Like others here I much prefer the Sky coverage to the BBC.I had a choice this week, record it on Sky or BBC. I picked Sky.
2 reasons:
1. The coverage is better overall.
2. The most important part for me, it won't change to BBC2 if it runs late, or a politician says something rude, or a footballer chips a nail. Lost count of how many times it changed to BBC2, especially because I'm in Scotland so it happened even more than in England. With Sky it will stay on it's own channel the entire time and as the last race proved, it can run as late as it likes without upsetting all the people that need to watch repeats of the soaps!
CatJ said:
callyman said:
I have the choice of watching either this weekend as it's live on BBC.
I will still watch the Sky coverage, I'm not a Sky subscriber (V media) but just think Sky have done an immensely better job.
Same here, I'll stick with Sky, I've found it quite good to be honest.I will still watch the Sky coverage, I'm not a Sky subscriber (V media) but just think Sky have done an immensely better job.
And as a subscriber to essentially the FULL sky package it didnt cost me a penny extra
Bonus!!!
Simpo Two said:
poing said:
2. The most important part for me, it won't change to BBC2 if it runs late
But is pressing a button that hard?If you've got Sky anyway (kids like it I hear) then fine, load up. But if you haven't, you're not going to pay £360pa to avoid pressing a button.
poing said:
Like others here I much prefer the Sky coverage to the BBC.
I had a choice this week, record it on Sky or BBC. I picked Sky.
2 reasons:
1. The coverage is better overall.
2. The most important part for me, it won't change to BBC2 if it runs late, or a politician says something rude, or a footballer chips a nail. Lost count of how many times it changed to BBC2, especially because I'm in Scotland so it happened even more than in England. With Sky it will stay on it's own channel the entire time and as the last race proved, it can run as late as it likes without upsetting all the people that need to watch repeats of the soaps!
Totally with you on both points bet especially point 2. I missed Canada last year because of this.I had a choice this week, record it on Sky or BBC. I picked Sky.
2 reasons:
1. The coverage is better overall.
2. The most important part for me, it won't change to BBC2 if it runs late, or a politician says something rude, or a footballer chips a nail. Lost count of how many times it changed to BBC2, especially because I'm in Scotland so it happened even more than in England. With Sky it will stay on it's own channel the entire time and as the last race proved, it can run as late as it likes without upsetting all the people that need to watch repeats of the soaps!
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