[SlotCarDad]

Sky Sports have annonced that they will be the home of F1 next season, personally I'm disappointed, what does the Forum think?

SCD

 

[SlotCarDad]

Hang on, the BBC have still got it as well, oops!

 

[palros]

They only have it for half the races.

Its Total Rubbish. I can belive after all the things the teams said they are going to do this.

I really hope it back fires on them

 

[asjwood]

The BBC will only be showing half the races live. Personally, I think it's really bad news for F1.

 

[loosesalute]

The BEEB has only got half the races Dad.
The rest will be highlights only, they`ll also show qualifying. How long before the BEEB loses out altogether?
I think it is bad news when the majority of the coverage goes to pay TV....there are other obvious reasons why I don`t like this deal with Sky.
Cheers
Kev

 

[Savage]

So to watch all F1 next year we gotta sub to sky sports ?
hmmmm, no likey that

 

[Coopdevil]

Makes me glad I no longer pay my TV license fee.

Remember test match cricket on the BBC anybody? What happened to that and corresponding public interest in the five-day game? Oh yes, I remember now...

 

[John Parr]

At least its not on ITV. Sky sports coverage is the best around so i think it will be good for F1 IMO.

 

[zarko]

I am struggling to see how Sky will benefit from it as at least 50% of the current BBC viewers will not be watching it on Sky, me being one of them. F1 was on the up recently but this will surely kill it off in years to come

 

[justDave]

So am I right in thinking they now have F1, NASCAR, Indy, DTM? What's next? Soon we won't have any choice but to subscribe if we want to watch motorsport....

David

 

[GregK]

OH NO ............ not the specious, random adverts again.

Could this mean the return of Leg-end or even Allen or both of them ................. AAAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!

 

[Invicta]

The Day F1 died, I hope Murdoch & Ecclestone are happy together and it all goes tits up.

 

[loosesalute]

Well said Invicta!
Anything with the Murdochs involved is tainted goods to me .
Cheers,
Kev

 

[Dave Sykes]

Can,t pay won,t pay good bye F1. Pay frozen, Pension costs up , inflation up car tax up heating bills up, Dropped basic sky two years ago to try to make ends meet.

 

[Coopdevil]

There's no point complaining about it to the BBC, just record a voice mail message on your mobile - it will get through to the Murdochs eventually...

 

[pasiro]

Disappointing, why should we have to pay twice to watch something, we pay tv license to watch it, to hell with paying sky as well.

Looks like my motorsport watching will be well down next year...oh well we still have BTCC, for the time being anyway

 

[Ade]

hi
i do hope this is not true,because if it is there is no motorsport to be watched in my home any more,apart from touring cars on itv4.

The chances of Mr Crusty and Son or Mr beardie getting my signature on a full of clauses contracts are a big fat ZERO.

 

[gasowder]

QUOTE (justDave @ 29 Jul 2011, 08:40) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Soon we won't have any choice but to subscribe if we want to watch motorsport....
So I won't be watching it (on TV) then

Eddie

 

[HighlanderSCXWW]

Well.....
Absolutely disgusting... I could not believe my ears this morning - I thought the BEEB had about a six year deal and there was a stink over the large fee, sounds like they sold some off to Murdoch... horrible. I only hope some one picks this up and runs a campaign. The Government sells off the terestial bandwidth for billions forcing us to fit dishes [no digital terrestial here... too many mountains], no compensation.. then we find we have to cough-up to a media billionaire to be able to see anything, every sport is bought-out by a dominant monopoly who is then free to extract whatever fee's they want from a captive market..... why bother. I scrapped my sky subscription years ago after seeing the fees go on a relentless spiral, I did not like paying Murdoch ~£300/year, when it went to >£550/year I just drew the line...... stinks.

- HighlanderSCXWW

 

[abbo]

Quote from Bernie:

Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone told BBC Sport: "It's super for F1. It will mean a lot more coverage for the sport.
"There'll be highlights as well as live coverage on two different networks now, so we get the best of both worlds."

I think he means HE gets the best of both worlds.

ABBO