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F1 BBC-Sky TV fiasco --- link worth reading.
britishtrident - 18/8/11 at 11:21 AM

This is worth a readd,

http://thef1times.com/news/display/04202

Irony - 18/8/11 at 12:09 PM

Personally I feel pretty bad about the BBC losing the F1. I have been a F1 fan for years but I won't be watching it SKY. I generally loathe television and rarely watch any. For me this is just another nail in the BBC's coffin. Just another reason to not pay the license fee.

adithorp - 18/8/11 at 12:25 PM

I'm not happy about Sky getting the deal but... How is F1 picking the highest bidder (£15mil/33% higher) snubbing Channel4. I'd understand the argument if they'd been the highest bidder... or even close.

vindicator - 18/8/11 at 12:36 PM

oh no!!!! I can now see more adverts on every Sky channel for the grand prixs and sky sports subscription required.....

britishtrident - 18/8/11 at 12:47 PM

quote:
Originally posted by adithorp
I'm not happy about Sky getting the deal but... How is F1 picking the highest bidder (£15mil/33% higher) snubbing Channel4. I'd understand the argument if they'd been the highest bidder... or even close.


Because it really knocks a hole in Bernies claim it was the only way to keep (any) F1 on UK free to air TV, for sponsorship reasons the teams would rather have free to air than the extra 300,000 they get by going with the Sky-BBC bid.

Johneturbo - 18/8/11 at 12:50 PM

I recon the teams will loose more money than they might gain with this deal.. RTL might be a way of wacthing the races live

designer - 18/8/11 at 12:58 PM

Money talks.

And F1 is rubbish anyway.

MikeRJ - 18/8/11 at 01:11 PM

quote:
Originally posted by designer
Money talks.


It sure does, and the teams/sponsors are likely to lose out in this case. I really hope this massively backfires for the poison dwarf.

sucksqueezebangblow - 18/8/11 at 02:04 PM

Sky are a bunch of scheming rip-off merchants. They've already done this to football, forcing fans to take expensive subscriptions or miss the games. Now they are trying to do it to F1 fans, and fans that pay will have to watch ads as well. What a rip-off. I will never subscribe, the sport will simply lose a fan. Sky must think there are an awful lot of suckers out there. I hope they're wrong.

[Edited on 18/8/11 by sucksqueezebangblow]

RK - 18/8/11 at 03:01 PM

Uncle Bernie only cares about Uncle Bernie, and if he thinks there is more to be gained by telling his core audience - that would be you, the UK - to shove off, then he will. The teams are too disorganised to get along, and they need him to tell them what to do.

Johneturbo - 18/8/11 at 03:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by sucksqueezebangblow
Sky are a bunch of scheming rip-off merchants. They've already done this to football, forcing fans to take expensive subscriptions or miss the games. Now they are trying to do it to F1 fans, and fans that pay will have to watch ads as well. What a rip-off. I will never subscribe, the sport will simply lose a fan. Sky must think there are an awful lot of suckers out there. I hope they're wrong.

[Edited on 18/8/11 by sucksqueezebangblow]


hear hear

another thing i loathe about sky sports is the way they nicked the england rugby games but it was only the england games maybe they think us english are stoooopid

BATHO - 18/8/11 at 05:02 PM

quote:
Originally posted by RK
Uncle Bernie only cares about Uncle Bernie, and if he thinks there is more to be gained by telling his core audience - that would be you, the UK - to shove off, then he will. The teams are too disorganised to get along, and they need him to tell them what to do.





This is so true...^^^^^^...... I am so peed about F1, been into it for years and just as the BBC 's coverage is getting good they pull out I am so unsure about subscribing to sky for one reason and another, now this has come out it makes it worse. But the only people that will lose out is us the audience.