BBC F1 2012

[mjo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17350644
Extended highlights for Canada and USA will be on at 22:30 BST.
There will roughly be about one hour of racing when there is extended highlights.

 

[Jos the Boss]

Oh dear, i'll have to record that! At least I would have seen it live though!

 

[mjo]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17384816
There will be inside F1 every Friday and Saturday night on the BBC news channel - with a glitzy new intro (which is on the link).

 

[FB]

If your worried about seeing the highlights so late on the BBC Sky have a full re-run of Oz starting at 9:30...

 

[The Artist.....]

I don't know about anyone else, but I found qualifying almost impossible to watch on the BBC - since they were running their commentary "As live" - but then cut bits out - meaning that they were referring to things that hadn't been mentioned on the air! Hopeless hopeless editing. There was plenty of time to just show ALL of the quali sessions, so that it actually made sense!

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

The problem I had was all the talking before. When it was live, that's understandable, but when it's not, it's like torture knowing that the result could be broadcast, but they're delaying. And that Ben Edwards guy gets too excited I think.

 

[Jos the Boss]

And that Ben Edwards guy gets too excited I think.

I like him, I think that he's a great succedor for Brundle who I rated as fantastic

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

I think he's good as well, he just gets too excited when a Toro Rosso for example goes top in Q2.

Anyway, I hope the majority of the race is shown for tomorrow. Does anyone know if it will be?

 

[mjo]

I thought the commentary itself was good, but I agree with The Artist that the highlights package needs to be polished - or show all of it. I thought Gary Anderson was a good addition to the team. Overall, the coverage was good, but could be refined further.

 

[mjo]

Anyway, I hope the majority of the race is shown for tomorrow. Does anyone know if it will be?

According to somewhere on the BBC website it will be around an hour of coverage of the actual race itself, assuming nothing peculiar happens (ie Canada last year).

 

[Josh]

Am I right when thinking they're still sending out an entire team (presenters, commentators, production etc.) to every race?
If so, how did they ever bring their costs down?

 

[Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld]

By letting Sky pay for the majority of the license fee.

 

[Brogan]

If so, how did they ever bring their costs down?

A very good question which I posed a long time ago when it became clear that only actual air time was being cut and not much else.

I expect Sky have offset the cost of broadcasting the races by sharing the bill from Bernie.

Still, it would be interesting to see exactly what the saving is compared to last year.

 

[GeoffP]

I doubt they will be paying any less per hour of TV time

 

[Galahad]

In terms of the broadcasting rights (the 'Bernie fee'), the BBC were paying in the region of £50m per year. Under the new deal that's believed to have dropped to around £20m, with Sky paying £45m.

I have no idea what the costs are in terms of sending their own crews to all the races, but I can only imagine its considerably smaller.

 

[gethinceri]

As it's your money they're spending you can just ask them.

 

[Jos the Boss]

I think their highlight package is better than Sky's live coverage, apart from the parts cut, but they did get rid of the Safety car which was smart! Ben Edwards works supremely with DC, I expected much worse and I can't wait for China when they're finally live!

 

[mjo]

I thought is was quite a neat highlights package - if only they were longer!

 

[Jos the Boss]

I thought is was quite a neat highlights package - if only they were longer!

Still half an hour of the show to go!

 

[mjo]

Still half an hour of the show to go!

Of the race!