New F1 Television rights deal
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"This is fantastic news for F1 fans and Sky Sports will be the only place to follow every race live and in HD."
What a stupid comment.
What a stupid comment.
I DESPISE what Sky is doing with sports. It's bad enough that you have to subscribe to see the sports you want, and then they go and make important events pay per view.
Just wait until an F1 season goes right to the wire and viewers have to pay £10+ on top of their subscription for the last race of the season.
Sky has already ruined boxing for me by doing this, Premiership football has gone, now F1 is on its way. People should just stop subscribing to Sky Sports and they won't be in a position to monopolise sports broadcasting.
Fekkers.
Just wait until an F1 season goes right to the wire and viewers have to pay £10+ on top of their subscription for the last race of the season.
Sky has already ruined boxing for me by doing this, Premiership football has gone, now F1 is on its way. People should just stop subscribing to Sky Sports and they won't be in a position to monopolise sports broadcasting.
Fekkers.
Money grabbing bunch of....
I am so pissed off that they have gone over to sky, having watched F1 for many years.
:idea: why don't sky buy the rights to every program on TV, that way we would all have to buy sky tv.
I am so pissed off that they have gone over to sky, having watched F1 for many years.
:idea: why don't sky buy the rights to every program on TV, that way we would all have to buy sky tv.
we have Sky, and the sports with multiroom, but i think its disgraceful of F1ltd to let sky have the rights!
the whole point of them using ITV and BBC is that its free to license payers!
plus i highly doubt sky will have the hours pre race chatting and stuff before the race.
they'll do what they do with rugby league and put the race on a few minutes after the start :bang:
the whole point of them using ITV and BBC is that its free to license payers!
plus i highly doubt sky will have the hours pre race chatting and stuff before the race.
they'll do what they do with rugby league and put the race on a few minutes after the start :bang:
Lol by now they've seen my comment and snapped up all TV shows 
I despise what the grumpy dwarf is doing to motorsport. It seems the two are fitting partners
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F1 is going to lose no end of viewers! Only 3 million people have sky, I wonder how many of them actually have a sky sport package?
Many people, like myself, cannot afford Sky!
Many people, like myself, cannot afford Sky!
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It was 9,000,000 in 2008! I'd say 10,000,000+ by now. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/30/bskyb.televisionBBC cant afford F1 & pretty soon I predict they will show hardly any Live Sport at all...
And lose the advertising from not having adverts during the race? Not a chance. Expect to see a good deal of (nonsense) coverage before and indeed after the race, with adverts every 10 minutes.
BBC cant afford F1 & pretty soon I predict they will show hardly any Live Sport at all...
Yeap it sure is, according to the news today, Sky has reached a 10.5 million customer base now.
I could not agree more on the BBC subect, Sky has a huge influence over the broadcasting industry in the UK and the sports industry too, sports broadcasting earns the company sublime dollar in advertisement revenue and this is without including the income from monthly subscriptions.
They not only have the money and power but they also have the ability to take on anything they want at this moment in time and turn it in to a profitable business model.
For me there isnt really an answer to solve the F1 dilemma, I am surprised that ITV never attempted to bid for the rights back, but with massive economic downturns and huge public debts in the UK I think we may be in luck if the BBC still remains a reputable broadcasting entity, none of this was any of our faults and yet not only do we have to take on inflation, pension cuts, take rises, unemployment and many more negative factors but our public TV service is being driven to the wall too.
I may begin to simply refuse to pay my TV license, I will simply tell the court when being prosecuted: "Taking F1 away was one thing but taking away my David Attenborough was the last drop, you can go *** yourself if you think you will ever get another penny from me for a TV license"
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Be interesting to see the viewing figures for F1 at the moment on BBC. Reakon they are over 10.5 million. Not everyone of Skys customers is going to watch the F1 either.
Very disappointed with this. If the BBC don't have enough cash to go around they should scrap BBC3 and put the money into better programming.
Good. Sky should buy up the rights completely and make it pay per race. I reckon £500 a race should do it. Then we can all move on to watching racing that isn't tedious and controlled by a bunch of idiots.
Id rather watch the pinnacle of technology and driver excellence going round Monaco than amatuers in bangers round Oulton park. Maybe thats just me though.
I can see the point. But my point was that F1 isn't the be all and end all of the sport that everyone makes it out to be. It's Bernie's freak show. And maybe this is a door opening to exposure for more interesting categories of racing to get some attention.
And LeMans is easily more challenging than an F1 race.
The BBC are ****. Take away some of the best TV available and replace it with ****!
Lol :devil:
