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Originally Posted by mrspeedy
Agree'd ...
I don't think the BBC has ever been fully committed to Motorsport, this just proves it  |
The BBC is fully committed to reducing costs as demanded by us, the voters. They were always committed to F1 when it cost much less to broadcast, but we, the voters, think £200m is a waste of money and we demand that they save the money.
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Originally Posted by /tobys
Bad news really.
All F1 viewers should boycott any Sky coverage so it becomes glaringly obvious in the viewing figures what the fans want and where...
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Been doing that since Murdoch bought the Sun in 1969 - have never, and would never, put 1p into his company. Most people put me down as a left-wing loony then - Sky was the future!! It's amazing how many people have recently told me I was right about Murdoch...
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Originally Posted by bodgit
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Funny how they are so keen on sports that cost almost bugger all to get the rights for... Or rather, see the point above about what we, the voters, think we should pay the rights for...
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Originally Posted by sldmodels
I'm not keen on some Sky commentators, so if I do watch the races on Sky, I might just press the mute button and listen the Radio 5 coverage, but then the pictures to sound maybe out of sync a bit.
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All pictures come from Bernie's TV feed, so everyone gets the same pics including the R5 commentators. Ever noticed that ALL F1 footage belongs to Bernie? It says Copyright F1 Administration on all the BBC footage, and everyone else's too. Great deal he does that Mr. E, charges people to show his pictures and then keeps the copyright so he can charge them to show the pictures again!! You'll be fine with Sky pics and R5 talk.
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Originally Posted by racingdwarf
think sky are hopeing the F1 massive are all going to get sky no matter what the cost,and line their fat little pockets! Think, and hope this backfires on F1  , need to have more respect of there audience, |
What, like we all said would happen when they nicked the footie... and millions of people went out and bought Sky footie packages and made the company viable. It's a nice thought, but whatever we all thought wouldn't work about their business model when they paid huge amounts for the footie, we were wrong. It works like a charm. Buy up the sports rights and people will sign up to Sky. 10.3 million subscribers and growing...
I don't like it, but it is what people want - less money spent on the BBC and more choice like having it on Sky. I'll just have to suck it up!!
One small light in the tunnel - there's a rumour the Concorde agreement contains a requirement for F1 to be free-to-air in some countries. Apparently the Constructors might raise this with Bernie...