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The Formula 1 Off-Season |OT| Haas to get better, right?
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Kotetsu534
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They've actually just lost the rights to the Australian Open Semis and Final to Eurosport, so I think all they have left is Queen's, Wimbledon, Davis Cup and a couple of Tour Finals matches. Nobody would fight them for Queen's as long as it remains a 500-class tournament, but I wouldn't be surprised if Wimbledon is shared with Sky within 5-10 years, with much of the earlier rounds coverage on the outside courts going Sky-exclusive.
SictorVullivan
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Wax Free Vanilla
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Just further proof that F1 is dead in the UK
brotkasten
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F1 is dead in the UK, because of a list with names and numbers on it?
Hamilton won last year, though. It's not really surprising there's less excitement this year, especially considering he wrapped it up ages ago, has been a bit of a diva recently, and it's a strong field of achievements (especially Murray, who I called winning it as soon as it was announced)
Wax Free Vanilla
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48k what?
Psychotext
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I assume that's votes for sports personality of the year. Pretty disturbing to see how much support Tyson Fury had too.
Fortunately (and appropriately), Jessica Ennis-Hill beat him.
Jezbollah
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Or: More people who watch BBC who don't pay for Pay TV saw them achieve something than saw them on Sky.
Danny Kent won the UK's first Grand Prix motorcycling championship for 38 years this year, which is something I would say is as good as what Andy Murray achieved, but he was not a finalist.
SPOTY is a glorified, skewed popularity contest. The only reason it means anything is the history of the award when it actually was worth a shit.
I think a lot of people are voting for Fury becasue he is a genuine character in a sport (or at least a division) which has been devoid of them for a LONG time.
I don't agree with what he says, but let's be honest, he has people (along with Joshua) interested in heavyweight boxing again and that is an achievement in itself.
Also, it's not like he is just talking for the sake of it. Yes he talks bullshit, but he delivers in the ring, he's not telling people that he's going to eat his children and then getting destroyed (Tyson v Lewis) or making excuses for his defeats (Haye v Klitshcko).
At least Fury backs up the trash-talk with performance. In all honesty, F1 could do with taking a lesson on having some characters in its ranks. We talk about Raikkonen like he's got 'character'. He doesn't fucking do anything! Hamilton has gone onto some parody-crossover music tip, Rosberg is just bitter.
It's saying something when Alonso and Button are the Morecambe and Wise of the paddock: 'yeah let's laugh at the losers who were once the best in the world'.
It's a damning indictment as to how far the 'sport' has fallen. F1 could do with some Fury's in its line-up. It's dull as ditchwater at the moment.
JonathanEx
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BBC to drop F1 TV coverage. Their 10 races a year are going to Channel 4, which will run ad-free races. 5live coverage extended to 2021.
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/...1?hootPostID=dde274dfb372ab4d0ede906f68a35e34
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/...1?hootPostID=dde274dfb372ab4d0ede906f68a35e34
Opus Angelorum
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Opus Angelorum
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Channel 4 must have come in (or upped their bid) at the last minute; it was rumored it was going to go to ITV even as late as week.
Psychotext
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I have really no idea how that's going to work out... what the hell. F1 on channel 4. How bizarre.
IdreamofHIME
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Maybe Channel 4 can stage a F1 vs Grand National event. Get some ramps set up for the cars to jump the fences and shoot a few cars during the race.
The Incarnation
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Thank god it hasn't gone to ITV. I remember the Jenson Button wankfest from those days. Made me hate the guy. Even did a piece on his no name missus at the time, and her musical career attempt.
Yeah quite happy with Channel 4 having a go. At least someone has picked up some live races anyway, I'm too cheap to get a Sky Sports sub
Not to mention that this is the second consecutive contract they have had to end early. In the first instance they went to Sky to block Channel Four bidding for the rights.
Wax Free Vanilla
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Fucking BBC scum! Channel 4 would be the exclusive broadcaster and had all of the races live if it wasn't for them fucking about years ago.
Just keep that knob Rick Edwards well away from F1.
Just keep that knob Rick Edwards well away from F1.
s_mirage
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This isn't Sky, this is 100% BBC. It was the BBC wanting out of their contract, while screwing over any other FTA broadcaster, that let Sky in in the first place.
Why don't they dump the Match of the Day highlights programme instead? It costs £204 million for a three season deal, excluding paying all of the pundits. But of course, who cares about live sport when football fans must be appeased?
There is no way Jake Humphrey would leave being front man for BT Premiership football for F1.
They would drop MOTD if it didn't get so many viewers.
king picollo
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To be fair the viewing figures for MotD will be much higher.
s_mirage
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They may be, but I question whether a publicly funded broadcaster should be prioritising highlights coverage of one sport over live coverage of a number. Especially on the basis of individual ratings.
The BBC have given up live coverage of virtually everything they had, not just F1.
Psychotext
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Known (high quality) quantity vs unknown. The BBC F1 coverage is deservedly well loved in the UK.
gutterboy44
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Haven't been keeping up with the finer points of the regulation changes for next season. Are we expecting the cars to look fairly similar to this past season? Are all the big changes coming in 2017/18 season?
Jezbollah
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It's well loved, but not by so many it seems.
To answer the MOTD quesion, MOTD plays into the core BBC Sports demographic of people who cant/wont get Pay TV - given that it's been a tradition since 1964, that the rights for 3 years is the same for F1 rights for one year, and that it attracts almost the same amount of viewers for a highlights program after 10pm than the F1 gets live, then it's a no brainer.
s_mirage
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Where are you getting that piece of info from? Everything I can find online suggests that, over equal lengths of time, the combined amount that Sky and the BBC were paying for the rights wouldn't have even matched the old MoTD deal, let alone their new one (which increased ~£25 million despite bidding against no-one).
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