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Sky F1 coverage in 2012 (213 posts)

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sozavele said 1 year, 1 month ago:

I have not had Sky for a year but for 10 years previously and have 1 working box showing 9 channels but the other day the other box packed in, perfect timing, as Sky sent us a come back offer, £20 per month for a year, for TV and Sport, great, I managed to persuaded my Mum to let me pay for it, and Sky said we could have a free replacement box to, however we are awaiting a phone call which has not come, their general service is disappointing me, as I true F1 fan and I can’t watch it is sad.

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robk23 said 1 year, 1 month ago:

I’ve just watched this week’s edition of the F1 Show on Sky. The interview with Sir Frank Williams was interesting, he’s a man I think a lot of people respect and his closing line of the interview made me smile.

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peteleeuk said 1 year, 1 month ago:

@sozavele

Get used to it! I joined them a couple of years back (because I moved out of a Virgin area), they are always hard work. Took them ages to get the internet working, which kept stopping for no reason for about 6 months, they put the dish right near a tree and then were surprised to have to come back and move the dish when the tree grew leaves and blocked the signal and now they won’t stop phoning me at all times to sell me tat even though I keep telling them I work nights and need to be asleep. Whatever you think of the stuff they actually pump into your house, as a company they are horrid.

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robk23 said 1 year ago:

Johnny Herbert will be a pundit for Sky for at least the next five races. I don’t know about what anyone else thinks but I’ve found him much better to watch than Damon Hill, we might also be getting better post-race analysis seeing as Johnny has been in the stewards room a few times now and he’ll bring that experience to the TV.

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/news/12433/7731184/Herbert-signs-for-next-five-GPs

On a separate note, I know a lot of people aren’t keen on Sky’s ‘drivers looking up grid positions bit’ but it’s a heck of a lot better than Eurosport’s effort with the WTCC. I saw that last weekend and in comparison Sky have done it a lot better.

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robk23 said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

Not entirely relevant to this topic I know, but Sky Italia has acquired the rights to show all 20 races live in Italy starting from 2013, with 9 races being shown live on Rai (FTA) television. It seems now FOM have found this system to work in Britain, it’s being rolled out elsewhere.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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Jimmyt said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

According to Bernie Sky’s coverage is that good that F1 doesn’t need BBC’s free to air coverage
“We will never move all countries to pay‑per‑view only though it wouldn’t make any difference here in the UK,”
“Sky reaches over 10m. We don’t get 10m on the BBC, normally about 6m or 7m.”
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jun/07/bernie-ecclestone-formula-one-free-bbc

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robk23 said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

Isn’t 10m the number of people with Sky+HD subscriptions? I doubt all of them watch F1. Anyway, the viewing figures for the last race at Monaco were 3.1m (BBC) and 575k (Sky). Of course we don’t need the BBC coverage anymore Bernie….moron.

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James_mc said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

I’m sorry but Bernie is talking out of his @rse. He doesn’t understand the general public, modern society, technology or the fans.

I accept that he’s built an amateur sport into a phenomenal enterprise (gravytrain), but he really needs to give it up.

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Estesark said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

The 10m vs 6-7m comparison is totally false. It’s comparing the actual BBC viewing figures with everyone who has a Sky subscription (or something like that) – not the actual Sky viewing figures. As has been pointed out, Sky have only a fraction of the viewers. If Bernie is happy for the sport to go from being a matter of national interest to a niche interest then he’s going the right way about it.

Not that I believe a single word of anything he says any more. He’s a compulsive liar.

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James_mc said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

@Estesark – if we were to compare like-for-like however and see the difference between all those who can watch BBC and those who have a S*y subscription….

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peteleeuk said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

This weekend should be a good test of how bad the figures can be with the horrific broadcast time of the BBC highlights program. Can’t wait to see a direct comparison with last years Canadian weekend.

It’s like Bernie doesn’t actually want people to watch.

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robk23 said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

Bernie, being the greedy thing he is, won’t be bothered by the viewing figures. As a long as he can continue to extract escalating rights fees from television companies and promoters then he’s happy. Of course he’ll eventually bleed them dry and move onto the next source of dosh.

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Prisoner Monkeys said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

Of course he’ll eventually bleed them dry and move onto the next source of dosh.

There’s just one small problem with your theory – once they’ve been bled dry, no-one will pick up the rights. Formula 1 will never be broadcast by anyone because it’s too expensive, and nobody will get any money from the commercial rights because there won’t be any money flowing into the sport.

How about you try letting go of your hatred for Bernie? It’s clearly leading you to construct ideas that are impossible.

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James Hosford said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

I like how, on BBC radio, everyone’s loving James Allen now. How things have changed!

Next thing we know Legard will be commentating on another platform and people will be lauding it. :P

I’m in Australia and of course Prisoner Monkeys is right, Channel 10 are awful. But for everything except Qualii and race itself (Practice and all build-up) I have a stream of Sky. I never used to get the BBC stream, had only ever seen a couple of full BBC shows from 2010 which were great, so I appreciate it might be a difficult comparison between free uninterrupted BBC and expensive interrupted Sky.

But in net terms, judging of its own accord, the Sky coverage is great and improving. Simon and Damon are getting over their teething problems, and Johnny and Ant are always great.

Croft can tend to be a little overexuberant and annoying but he’s basically fine. No-one gets near Murray or Edwards as far as head commentary goes, but Croft is miles better than Legard and probably slightly better than Allen (although I did like him more than most!)

I did love Martin and DC last year but Martin is clearly better as the analyst secondary not the lead.

The real stuff, Quali and Race is what matters, and ‘we’ all collectively (British Sky watchers, and most English-speaking countries like Aus which get the Sky feed I think) have it sweet there. We get Martin and Ted, and when it comes down to it they are the two that matter. It doesn’t matter how good DC and Edwards (who surely slightly beats Croft) are. If you’ve got Martin and Ted everything is going to be OK. :D

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robk23 said 11 months, 3 weeks ago:

@prisoner-monkeys The television rights fees will have to reach a point eventually where broadcasters will say no to further increases, nobody has infinite money and especially not at the moment. The broadcasters can increase advertising revenue but that has its limits, increasing subscription fees would just reduce the number of viewers and therefore the chance of filling advertising space. The worst outcome is that nobody would bid for the television rights and if FOM don’t want to be flexible on prices, individual countries will start to lose coverage.

On a separate note, I wouldn’t be surprised to see F1 come off the HD package next year and be available exclusively on the Sports pack.

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