Bernie sold out - F1 moving to sky

[Lazydonkey]

I just checked on Sky website, it's £20.25 a month to upgrade to Sky Sports, I won't be upgrading. I was gutted to read this, this morning, oh well looks like 10 races a year for me.

It's £12 a month for Sky sports 1 and my guess would be that's where it will be broadcast.

[kenny]

It's £12 a month for Sky sports 1 and my guess would be that's where it will be broadcast.

They won't hop over the 3 channels to make you buy the full package then.

/cynical faction.

[Mikie711]

It's £12 a month for Sky sports 1 and my guess would be that's where it will be broadcast.

They won't hop over the 3 channels to make you buy the full package then.

/cynical faction.

[Lazydonkey]

i dunno - but i wouldn't base your decision on the cost as it stands just now.

[tuscan_thunder]

BBC Priorities

Award winning F1 coverage ensuring the several millions viewers can see one of the world's leading sports: nah.

Keeping overpaid, undertalented 'celebrities' like Graham Norton and Bruce Forsyth: yes.


utter balls.

[David]

The reason the Beeb lost F1 is due to the massive government pressure to cut budgets, that's the sole reason. And it stinks.

As a Beeb employee, I couldn't agree more!

License fee was held at the same level was it not? So budget remains the same. They could have held onto it but the BBC decided they would rather spend the money on something else.
Just when the BBC had actually managed to get the presentation of the sport absolutely spot on.

Buggered if I am paying sky the money, I'll just watch it online via one of the streaming websites.

A frozen licence fee is in real terms is a 4-5% cut pa and the Beeb has been shrinking for many years now. But what you say probably has some truth in that the Olympics coverage will need to be funded from somewhere.

[72elan1304]

I just cancelled my Sky sub on Weds, telling them that all I watch is F1 and I can get that for free. No way I'm paying 40 odd quid a month for F1 coverage, £500 a year!

Looks like it'll be a streaming service with the R5 live commentary for me next year.

[mattg]

im pissed at this... i thought FOM were committed to ensuring F1 was broadcast on free to view tv channels only?!?
I dont have any of the sports channels on my sky subscription and would loathe to pay £12.25/mo for this.
is F1 not broadcast on any of the freesat channels? even if it had a non English commentary, i could still tune in to BBC radio 5live for English commentary??

[tut]

I do not agree with freezing the licence.

I am quite happy to pay more for quality programs without adverts, the BBC is admired and held up as a model world wide, and an extra 10 to 15% which equates to a round of drinks for four, three packs of fags or a heroin shot for The Scheme element, would barely be missed.

tut

[jen]

At least we'll have full coverage of this on the BBC......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ds-newsxml

The whole thing stinks.

[tut]

Pretty sure that Sanj could come up with a streaming or similar solution, and as noted we can listen to the commentary on 5live which will probably be beefed up.

tut

[r055]

as usual, Daily mash have their say..


http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/busi ... 107294138/

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[Kelvin]

Inevitable. It's costs the beeb a fortune to have F1 and it was never going to last.

I've never had a Sky and we don't watch enough TV as a family to want it (well Rachel might have a different view on that) I'm not a huge sports fan of the kind of sport Sky typically show so can't even justify getting sky for the sports stuff.So for now I'll continue with the Beeb who will have all the highlights from every race which are generally better to watch. There will be a point in the future where the beeb will drop F1 completely I expect and sky will be the 'Home of F1' on the telly. At that point I might consider getting sky but it's unlikely. I just need to find an F1 friendly pub somewhere local.

[Mikie711]

I think that the fact that this thread has gone to 3 pages in such a short time gives some idea of the sentiment surrounding this decision. Looking around the net this sort of reaction is being mirrored elsewhere. Whoever at the BBC took this course of action may be in for a bit of a shock at the reaction from the viewing public giving that F1 in general and the BBC coverage in particular has never been so popular.
It will have no effect on the outcome unfortunately as by the time we hear about such things the ink will be well and truly dry on any contracts.
Undoubtedly coverage of the Olympics has had an impact on all of the BBC budgets and this will be the tip of the iceberg as far as cuts are concerned. As many have said an extra £12.50 a month for being able to see live coverage of 10 races is far too expensive to justify so looks like I too will resort to online coverage for the missing races.
Can't imaging the teams will be happy about this seeing as most are based in the UK.

[Scotty C]

Sunday afternoon drinks at mine