uk f1 tv coverage - sky, bbc and ch4

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by Derwent

Sadly the C4 programmes were a times when I was asleep or getting ready to go out.
Do they have to be some long after the event?

Time difference is the main reason for delayed coverage. You can still watch it on 4play, they keep it for about a week. This problem occurs with all the ''fly-away'' races.

[Aysedasi]

Originally Posted by Derwent

Sadly the C4 programmes were a times when I was asleep or getting ready to go out.
Do they have to be some long after the event?

You missed a huge number of ad breaks....... More than I can ever remember before in a highlights show.

[flatlandsman]

I tried the catch up on the E4 player or whatever it is called when they first signed the deal to put it there. I think after 20 minutes I had put up with about 4 ad breaks all about 2 mins each, so I gave up and have never been back. Not that I am remotely missing anything obviously.

[Alan52]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

I tried the catch up on the E4 player or whatever it is called when they first signed the deal to put it there. I think after 20 minutes I had put up with about 4 ad breaks all about 2 mins each, so I gave up and have never been back. Not that I am remotely missing anything obviously.

No one here has any idea why you continue to post on the F1 threads at all let alone so frequently.
We pretty much all disagree with your basic premises about F1 and your MAGA like devotion to your own point of view.
To summarise
-F1 is the best racing series in the world with the best drivers,teams and most spectacular cars.It is not run on the basis of constant BoP fiddling so that everyone can be a winner and does not have a large part of the field filled up by amateur or pay drivers.
-It’s popularity is at an all time high and while DTS may have kick started this it is not sustaining it.
We know you deny all of this so why waste your time telling us that for the 10,000th time?

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by Aysedasi

You missed a huge number of ad breaks....... More than I can ever remember before in a highlights show.

Yet another benefit of recording the programme and watching it later. For this Grand Prix I just got up for work about an hour earlier on Monday morning & watched the coverage over breakfast (so before I'd learned the result), fast-forwarding over the preamble to the race start, and doing the same through the (many - as you say) advert breaks.
Looking at the TV timings for this weekend I expect I will be doing the same thing again.

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

I tried the catch up on the E4 player or whatever it is called when they first signed the deal to put it there. I think after 20 minutes I had put up with about 4 ad breaks all about 2 mins each, so I gave up and have never been back. Not that I am remotely missing anything obviously.

It's a bold claim to say that you are not missing something from 9 seasons of F1!!!!

You must have missed seeing Rosberg's WDC, Hamilton reaching 7xWDC and Verstappen's rise?

[flatlandsman]

Sorry yes pretty much missed most of that, I do watch periodically, and I take a passing interest hence I post here occasionally much to the derision of the fanboys who hate anyone not obsessed with F1 posting here and pointing that out lol!

I stopped watching religiously at the start of hybrid, but used to be a lover of F1 before then, as I say I keep up with the news etc. But people like Croft keep me away, hence posting here, as this is a thread about tv coverage.

The trend of shouting about everything, pointless stats etc, some of the coverage is very good, I do not understand the hatred of Kravitz, he can be annoying yes but he doesn't hso0ut, injects bits of humour and has that sport/business balance that you I think need in reporting F1, it is supposed to be a sport after all.

( sorry Alan am not going to respond to the bait, it's too easy, but suggesting F1 is the best racing in the world is staggeringly out of touch, let's leave it at that)

[Greem]

Originally Posted by flatlandsman

( sorry Alan am not going to respond to the bait, it's too easy, but here I am responding to the bait)

Fixed that for you.