F1 TV coverage threadFormula 1 

I'm starting to hate the BBC, anything decent they have they lose, they've lost the likes of: F1, MotoGP, Clarkson and co., The Simpsons, Football League Highlights, The Olympics from 2022, Attenborough is mainly on Sky now and they expect people to pay for a TV license which is more than they would ever gain through ads.

Can you imagine if every channel had the same policy as the BBC? Everyone in the UK would be homeless and restricted to watching has-beens flailing around a stage and Paul Hollywood going on about how he loves a moist tart.
 
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Peasantslayer
I'm starting to hate the BBC, anything decent they have they lose, they've lost the likes of: F1, MotoGP, Clarkson and co., The Simpsons, Football League Highlights, The Olympics from 2022, Attenborough is mainly on Sky now and they expect people to pay for a TV license which is more than they would ever gain through ads.

Can you imagine if every channel had the same policy as the BBC? Everyone in the UK would be homeless and restricted to watching has-beens flailing around a stage and Paul Hollywood going on about how he loves a moist tart.
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The licence fee is stupid because it restricts the BBC to so much less money than they would gain as a private broadcaster. Just think about how much ITV can charge for an advert slot in Downtown Abbey! Plus the crazy thing is there are adverts on the BBC, it's ad's for its own shows but they are just as annoying in some respects.

There isn't much I watch with the BBC anymore apart from a few comedies and Strictly. I don't even watch the news with them anymore because Channel 4 and even ITV do a better job. Apparently the BBC blow a fortune on things like Wimbledon.
 
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prisonermonkeys
It hasn't worked for any other broadcaster, so why would it suddenly start to work now?

This was the original problem: people demanded live and uninterrupted coverage of the events in prime time and available for free, which simply isn't practical for a commercial network. You can't have it both ways.
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Like I said, here in the UK they (ITV) manage to show 90 minutes of a football match without any commercials, they just cram them all in the build up, half time and the end. Granted F1 doesn't have a half time break but if they can go 90 minutes of football without an ad, I don't see why they can't do that sort of ballpark of F1 without them.
 
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prisonermonkeys
Because the rights are considerably more expensive.
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They're about the same... the £25 million-or-so a year would get you about 20 soccerball-kicking-bully-off-thingies. However, as noted elsewhere, you get a lot more soccerball-kickings in the massive package so you can probably offset the cost with advertising more easily.
 
Britain has a public-owned TV channel which shows adverts. It's called Channel Four.

ITV can have the rights if they want, I've become highly disillusioned with the Beeb now, just as long as they don't show adverts during the race. In the pre-race? Fill yer boots. But not in the main event.

Rosenthal. Jardine. Blundell. It just works. And, just maybe, we'll be able to stick Ted Kravitz back on the pitwall where he belongs.
 
AJ
Also for future reference, 7 BTCC/F1 clashes;
March 20 - Australia

April 17 - China

April 16-17: Donington Park

April 2-3: Brands Hatch (Indy)

April 3 - Bahrain

May 1 - Sochi

May 7-8: Thruxton

May 15 - Spain

May 29 - Monaco

June 4-5: Oulton Park (Island)

June 12 - Canada

June 18-19: Croft

June 19 - Baku*

July 3 - Austria

July 10 - Britain

July 24 - Hungary

July 30-31: Snetterton

July 31 - Germany

August 13-14: Knockhill

August 27-28: Rockingham

August 28 - Belgium

September 4 - Italy

September 17-18: Silverstone

September 18 - Singapore

October 1-2: Brands Hatch (Grand Prix)

October 2 - Malaysia

October 9 - Japan

October 23 - USA

November 6 - Mexico

November 13 - Brazil

November 27 - Abu Dhabi
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And there we go. As I was inferring, for ITV the TOCA package is a more sustainable, stable, and marketable property than F1. Says a lot.


Channel 4 becomes terrestrial home of Formula 1
 
I wonder if they will take some of the BBC pundits over like Coulthard? If not then I guess this was the last ever BBC F1 montage :indiff:



They are going to have to work on this pretty quickly if this all has to happen by the start of the 2016 season!
 
Channel 4 Ideal lineup I think (not that it is possible):
David Coulthard, Martin Brundle, Jake Humphery, Murray Walker (special guest), Lee McKenzie, Alan McNish, Tom Clarkson and, for the heck of it, Matt LeBlanc
 
Suzy Perry won't be there, she's under contract to do most of BBC's sport coverage. I'm sure Coulthard, Jordan and Edwards won't be there either?
 
AJ
Apart from, you know...the law.
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Why is it law that I have to pay for something of which I do not watch? And why is it called TV licence and not BBC licence (seems like a trading standards issue to me :))

Edit: Why can't they just block BBC1 and only allow those who subscribe to it to watch it?
 
Ah man this sucks, means I have to watch f1 on crappy swiss tv now D:

Oh well, wasnt for all of the gp, but I liked bbc coverage. Might be the time to get C+ for me then D:
 
Well there you go, ad-free is possible on a commercial station. I wonder what their intention is at the end of the contract, stay with the BBC 50/50 one or negotiate a full season one.
 
Samus
Well there you go, ad-free is possible on a commercial station. I wonder what their intention is at the end of the contract, stay with the BBC 50/50 one or negotiate a full season one.
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I suspect the CBE gave them a pretty good deal. The audience split between BBC and Sky has been around 8/1, and even he knows decimating the uk viewership would be a massive blow to the business.

Samus
I wonder what their intention is at the end of the contract, stay with the BBC 50/50 one or negotiate a full season one.
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I would doubt that they have one currently. Sky have an exclusive contract to show all races live and I don't see that changing. For next year onwards Sky is consolidating its multiple European productions into one group, so they are now one of FOM's biggest partners.
 
AJ
Apart from, you know...the law.



Brundle and Humphrey, no. The rest, maybe.
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Well not if you don't watch live TV anymore...

And I quite liked Jake. But what about that Jonathan Legard guy?
 
AJ
Per household, not per TV.

I stand corrected.

And, no, not as much as having to pay to go to the emergency room.
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The hell does healthcare costs have to do with a TV license, a straw man/red herring? The ACA is making healthcare more affordable to access healthcare here in the states and will make it cheaper over time. Nice try though.
 
ukfan758
It must suck to have to pay £145.50 a year for no reason.
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My guess is that you'd still need to pay a licence for the receiver even if the BBC changed in its status as beneficiary. But yes, it sucks.

It's also over £300 a year to get the package that includes the F1 channel, or about £200 a year if you just pay for the races and nothing else. The BBC was cheaper, if worse.

rono_thomas
Why is it law that I have to pay for something of which I do not watch?
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It isn't if what you say is true. You don't need one.

AJ
Apart from, you know...the law.
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As above, the law doesn't require you to have a TV licence just for having a TV.
 
J_Starscream
Suzy Perry won't be there, she's under contract to do most of BBC's sport coverage. I'm sure Coulthard, Jordan and Edwards won't be there either?
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Suzie and Edwards are pretty much BBC staff but Eddie and Coulthard could easily make the jump.

Brundle won't leave Sky, they pay him a fortune.

That £145.50 stealth tax for basically nothing is extremely irritating, I could buy some decent TV package with that money!
 
The law states you need a license if you have "Television Receiving Equipment". That isn't the TV itself, but either the standard TV aerial, Sky, Virgin, FTA Sat Dish etc.
 

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