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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: JUAN PABLO on July 29, 2011, 09:42:53 AM
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sorry but FFS
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Meh.
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They deserve each other.
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Well they've just posted pre-tax profits of £1bn, it would be rude not to.
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I dont understand Formula 1
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Great - another sport i have next to no interest in watching.
File along with Fish-o-mania, Rugby, angling, speedway, showjumping, netball and last but not least WWE 'Wrestling'.
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With all the cutbacks at the BBC, it would be unreasonable to carry on spending what I think is £200m per year on it.
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I don't care what channel it's on - it's just tedious background noise and pictures of cars either being stuck behind other cars or having their tyres changed.
By far the most boring televised sport there is.
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It's not that bad, BBC keep half
bbc.co.uk/sport
The BBC and Sky Sports will broadcast Formula 1 in the UK between 2012 and 2018 under a new rights deal.
The BBC has been the exclusive broadcaster of F1 in the UK since 2009 but its contract with Formula One Management was due to expire after the 2013 season.
Sky Sports will show every race, qualifying session and practice live.
BBC Sport will broadcast half the races live, as well as the qualifying and practice sessions from those races.
Both companies will broadcast in high definition.
Races screened by the BBC will be live on the BBC Sport website for UK users.
The BBC will have highlights on TV, online and mobile for any race it is not showing live, and all races will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live.
Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "We are absolutely delighted that F1 will remain on the BBC.
"The sport has never been more popular with TV audiences at a 10-year high and the BBC has always stated its commitment to the big national sporting moments.
"With this new deal not only have we delivered significant savings but we have also ensured that through our live and extended highlights coverage all the action continues to be available to licence-fee payers."
Races shown live on BBC TV will include the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the Monaco GP and the concluding race of the season.
Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, said: "This is fantastic news for F1 fans and Sky Sports will be the only place to follow every race live and in HD.
"We will give F1 the full Sky Sports treatment with a commitment to each race never seen before on UK television."
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."
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The way I see it is another sport I dont really care about getting a better billing then it should on SSN. Add to this Rugby League and Cycling.
Someone made the point before, it isn't Sky - Sports News, it's Sky Sports - News i.e. they only concentrate what their network is allowed to show.
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I don't care what channel it's on - it's just tedious background noise and pictures of cars either being stuck behind other cars or having their tyres changed.
By far the most boring televised sport there is.
Agreed. It's like a noisy docusoap about a Quckfit fitter.
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More crap to fill Sky Sports News with.
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Small mercy is it's not PPV.
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Why would you come on to a formula 1 thread to say you hate formula 1. I don't get it-not one comment posted so far has the slightest bit of intelligent humour about it. If you're not funny and you dont care, why are you here?I suggest you go back to your Motown hits and slippers thread....
Re the OP, yes, FFS indeed. Although I have sky sports I think the BBC have got the coverage pretty spot on. Quite funny, a little bit sensationalist and sometimes calamitous...it's been great this year IMO.
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Wonderful...There is really no point watching half a season so I won't bother at all from 2012.
Sky virtually running my greatest love, football, never made me get Sky so this certainly won't make me get it. Forget or the arguments about how great Sky present sport. One media company owning the TV rights to all major sporting events is BAD. Full stop.
The fact is that no-one can compete with them financially.
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Not good news for me love F1 but will not pay sky
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Not good news for me love F1 but will not pay sky
Why won't you pay for Sky ?
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BBC still have half the races don't they?
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Not good news for me love F1 but will not pay sky
Why won't you pay for Sky ?
For me it would be a combination of:
I despise Rupert Murdoch
I dislike the stanglehold Sky have over sport/television due to their financial clout
Far too expensive
I watch very little television so it would be a waste of money
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Half the races, but which ones? I bet they wont have the British GP, imagine a scenario where they get all the non European races ie the ones that start at 3am or 10pm on a Sunday.
I bet the rights pricing is way cheaper for the Brazilian, Canadian, Singapore, Malaysia & Australian GP than all the European races.
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The BBC have stated that they WILL be showing the Monaco, British and the final race of the season.
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Well thats good news then.
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I have Sky but not the sport or movies and pay £22.50 and get free evening and weekend calls and my internet.
Plus a 200 gig Sky plus box,and I had 50 quid of free M@S vouchers. So for me very good value
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Not good news for me love F1 but will not pay sky
Why won't you pay for Sky ?
I will never give them money just look at the state of football
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Not good news for me love F1 but will not pay sky
Why won't you pay for Sky ?
I will never give them money just look at the state of football
You and me both, never had any Sky Sports channels where I live and never will. Not that it has any impact on them or that they care what I do, it just means I sleep easier at night.
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I dont understand Formula 1
Think it's just cars driving round and round a circuit for several hours.
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I heard the BBC were going to show the first half of every race and Sky get the climax.....
.....oh please yourselves.
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Am I the only who when they first read this bit "BBC Sport will broadcast half the races live, as well as the qualifying and practice sessions from those races." took it to mean half a race and wonder if it was the first half or second half?
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What a fucking load of shite.
Well I guess it will spare me watching Vettel romp to any more world championships.
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I dont understand Formula 1
Think it's just cars driving round and round a circuit for several hours.
And
there
goes
Manson
or was it Mansell?
It would be a bit more exciting if murderers was placed strategically in the pit lane and the time taken for the pit stop was the time the murderer got with the driver
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Never really cared about formula one anyway.
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Sky are paying lot of money for cars to drive around in a procession come into the pits change tyres and carry on driving in a pre-ordained order.
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The thing that really pisses me off (oddly more so than the fact I won't be watching it any more) is that the BBC are dropping it due to the fact that they are short of money. Then why the fuck are they paying half the money they would have done anyway to screen the races to pointlessly screen half? It's an absolute joke.
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It made me laugh, when SSN announced they had secured the rights for F1. They started introducing the drivers like Vettell and Hamilton to the viewers as if F1 had just been invented!
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I've just got into F1, well last season that is, and now this one. I've enjoyed the BBC coverage because of the commentating team and the way they present the races to avoid the 'procession of cars' effect and reflect the superb driving and the choices the teams have to make, about appropriate tyres for conditions, for instance and how many pitstops to fill up.
I'll really miss it!
Good one, Jensen!
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It made me laugh, when SSN announced they had secured the rights for F1. They started introducing the drivers like Vettell and Hamilton to the viewers as if F1 had just been invented!
It has didn't you know the world only moves when sky cover it.