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I'm surprised by the fact that Monaco isn't live. The impression given when the shared rights deal was announced was that there's be 3 "protected" events - British GP, final race of the season, and Monaco - that would always be live on the Beeb. Sad to see that it hasn't lasted.
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I wonder what the governments who are shelling out vast quantities of tax dollars to fund the overseas exposure that F1 brings their cities feel about this new development?
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Exposure of F1 will only be a small part of a city/country's overseas exposure, and whether they are seen on the BBC or sky most likely doesn't even register.
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The BBC are slowly losing interest. Expect their quality to erode as well.
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I'm not sure - I don't tend to watch prime time stuff on the BBC. However, this year's Brazilian GP had approximately the same number of people viewing as watched Songs of Praise. Also qualifying shows generally get lower audiences than the normal prime time programmes on the BBC.
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This years Brazilian GP had its lowest viewing figures since 2005 at an average across the BBC and Sky F1 at 3.95 million. This is blamed on the fact that the championship was done and dusted. Compare that with 2012 which ranged from 5.8 million when the race started to 6.5 million at race end. Unfortunately I can't find angry viewing figures for Songs of Praise.
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I didn't even realise Songs of Praise was still on!
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I just thought that the idea of awarding double points for the last race was to (hopefully) make the final race the Championship decider instead of it being sorted out a couple of races earlier?
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The not live thing wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the highlights. I hate highlights and the seamless way they try to run them so you don't notice that they've skipped a few laps. I want everything (boring bits and all). Of course, when it's not live you also can't use live timing, a driver tracker or chat to the good people on Ten-Tenths.
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I shan't be bothering with Sky this year and am cancelling. As much as I detest highlights, financial times are now hard for me and I can't justify the telly at the moment, let alone the expensive F1 charge.
I think pay-per-view/ subscription only is the wrong way to go and have thought that all along, even when subscribing for the last two seasons. Last year, I was busy enough with my own company to have much time to enjoy the F1 channel and it's vastly underused anyay (the day left trailing the channel and too many repetitions of the 'Legends' programme). Sky haven't enhanced F1 like they said they would IMO either. |
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Well so far so good. I refuse to subsidise the Murdoch mafia and anyway the BBC team generally do a far better job imho. Anderson makes it for me and I prefer Ben to Brundle too.
I'm never failed to find a good quality live stream online when the race is not live on the BBC, which as far as I understand are illegal to broadcast, but not illegal to receive in the UK. Not that there's anyone watching what we do online or anything..... |
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They both do a good job. Whether it's worth the price...well, I've fallen out of love of F1 somewhat, so, on it's own no. Although that's not down to Sky, more the mucking about the sports bosses have been getting up to in the last few years.
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