F1 to BBC4?
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Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld
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Don't like the idea of this. Adverts mean people change channel, find something else on, and don't stay with the F1. Bad move all round, I think.
Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld
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Cricket tends to be one advert every 4 or 5 minutes, at the end of the over. However, when ITV had F1, they had 5 minutes of ads every 20 minues or so, meaning people swapped channel.
landogeorgelewis1
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I'm not sure i'd like it to go over to channel 4. I'd much rather it stayed on the bbc and we could watch it without any adverts.
TBH - Does the bbc really need two childrens channels and Both BBC3 and BBC 4? Surely they'd save loadsa money up by merging Cbbc and Cbebbies together and merging both BBC 3 and 4 together. That saves less airspace to fill up. Plus wouldn't really miss the red button service.
Gonna boycott the BBC if we lose F1 from it.
TBH - Does the bbc really need two childrens channels and Both BBC3 and BBC 4? Surely they'd save loadsa money up by merging Cbbc and Cbebbies together and merging both BBC 3 and 4 together. That saves less airspace to fill up. Plus wouldn't really miss the red button service.
Gonna boycott the BBC if we lose F1 from it.
Kamui-FastestChefInTheWorld
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Fair enough, I don't think I remember cricket on C4, I was in Australia when I became interested.
Anyway, to bring this back to F1, didn't Bernie say that BBC was 'doing a brilliant job'? If it was kept on free-to-air TV, it would remain on BBC1, I'm fairly certain.
Anyway, to bring this back to F1, didn't Bernie say that BBC was 'doing a brilliant job'? If it was kept on free-to-air TV, it would remain on BBC1, I'm fairly certain.
Wish they would get rid of Eastenders instead of F1
Adverts worked during the cricket as they had a quick 30 second ad every 2 overs when there was nothing really happening. American sport works pretty much the same way instead they run the games between the adverts.
If I had a choice I would prefer it to go to sky as long as they treated it the same way as the football and movies subscription services and have no adverts during the race itself and only during the build up.
Staying with BBC is the ideal solution as they have done an excellent job in the last 2 seasons.
Is it against their ethical broadcast policies to have an additional subscription service? And if the BBC had an additional channel that we would pay for to ensure we get the sport we want would we pay for it?
If I had a choice I would prefer it to go to sky as long as they treated it the same way as the football and movies subscription services and have no adverts during the race itself and only during the build up.
Staying with BBC is the ideal solution as they have done an excellent job in the last 2 seasons.
Is it against their ethical broadcast policies to have an additional subscription service? And if the BBC had an additional channel that we would pay for to ensure we get the sport we want would we pay for it?
I think we were all begging for an advert in the last GP
Together BBC3, BBC4, CBBC and CBeebies only take up two channels I believe - at 7pm (I think) CBBC/Cbeebies turns off and BBC3/4 turn on using the same broadcasting gubbins (my understanding breaks down here....). I guess what you're saying could still be done though and then behind the scenes it would just be one channel instead of two, although the programmes each of the four show are quite different so I'm not sure it would really work.
Also the Red Button service is fantastic to have during major sporting events like World cups, Olympics, Wimbledon etc. and coverage of F1 practice sessions!
If one of these had to be sacrificed to keep F1 on the BBC though I'd drop it like a stone. If it does leave the BBC I don't really care where it goes as long as it gets good coverage but moving it to Sky would lose a lot of UK viewers. Got to say I think the BBC would be stupid to drop it though.
If its between 4 and Sky, it has to be 4.
They did a great job of cricket, it has to be said. And I say move the Countdown clock to the last 30 seconds of any session.
Which team is this?
SRSOOOORT
They did a great job of cricket, it has to be said. And I say move the Countdown clock to the last 30 seconds of any session.
Which team is this?
SRSOOOORT
RevMaxPower
Banned
I find ITV 4 good for other Motorsports such as IOM TT and BTCC.
BBC 4 and Channel 4 are totally different animals. Channel 4 News with John Snow is great at 7.00 pm....
BBC 4 and Channel 4 are totally different animals. Channel 4 News with John Snow is great at 7.00 pm....
If we are going to have to have adverts then TV really ought to think about a different way of deliveing them Interuption of live TV broadcast is ridiculous. Why not follow lead from the web and display advertising? Adverts could appear sporadically at the bottom or corner of the screen. Still annoying, I know, but not so much as a full interuption. From the advertisers point of view, they can be assured that people are seeing thier adverts and not running off to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.
