F1 TV coverage
- Thread starter Greenlantern101
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Plus Cricket is the most boring game ever invented.
Wash you mouth out with soap!
I think the risk is the proliferation of PPV routes. When the Premier League was only on Sky you had to pay a single price ad got all the games they showed. Now the coverage is split between Sky and BT the cost of the Sky subscription hasn't gone down and you are expected to pay extra for BT. Not going to happen in my house, in much the same way as I wouldn't pay to watch the Ashes on BT.
The risk for F1 is that you end up with bits and pieces spread across a variety of service providers and end up paying a huge amount as you need to subscribe to them all. This is the risk for football as each team appears to want to have their own channel and TV deal which will put off the casual fan who just wants to watch a few games regardless of who is playing.
I have another problem, I like watching F1 on my big screen TV. I don't want to watch the races on my pissy little lap top or fanny about connecting my lap top to the TV. I know Smart TV's allow for a variety of platforms but then these can be restricted depending on which TV yo buy and what the manufacturer will allow to be installed.
It's going to be a chuffing mess if it goes down the multi provider format for different sessions and/or different races and I'd probably just stop watching.
F1Brits_90
World Champion
1st of all i wasnt comparing austraila with england i was comparing like for like 2013/14 & 2017/18 tours i was saying sky is not great but whats worse is bt where the viewing figures have been halved. Then comparing 2005 & 2013 series in england with 1 on free to air tv & 1 not. It has quite alot to with F1 because its sport & its the only example i think of how the same achievement can be so hugely different & massively effect public opinion & what used to be huge sporting event because of exclusivity on pay tv devaluing it
As i said on channel 4 2005 same event, england most of squad got mbes Vaughan got a commentary job through it, Flintoff won sports personality of the year & became a huge celeb from it. Helping him develop a big media career if it wasnt for that series. None of that wouldve happened. Lets say 2022 Oliver Rowland wins/challenges for the world title. Same achievement but because sky not bbc or itv like 90 & 00's. He will be a nobody compared to hill coulthard button & hamilton
Everyone stop talking about cricket! You'll put the internet to sleep! The British Empire doesn't exist anymore people! Stop trying to force some Oxbridge game on the world. 
Did you mean to post this in the Max Mosley thread?
....Stop trying to force some Oxbridge game on the world.
Cricket is a very cheap sport to get into playing. As a result many of the top players have been from working class homes so I do not get your implication that it is a game for toffs. F1, yes, cricket, no.
It's a game for imperialists.
I made this. It's my plan. 
Something against the French Greenlantern101?
F1Brits_90
World Champion
Ah that should be Now TV as well.
Here's my schedule for watching F1 this season:
That is all.
That is all.
Decisions, decisions, decisions, Austria RTL or Germany RTL?
New plan based on CTA ratings and overtaking stats.
Great plan but you just know that is going to backfire with the best, most amazing, incident packed, thrilling, wheel to wheel battling to the very end, Sochi Grand Prix and one that no one who watched it live will ever forget.
Still not bothered with France I see!
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