Pay To Watch F1

[marinyork]

I already pay the BBC every year. I'd rather they didn't use a sizeable slice of their income on F1 personally, though I can see it matters to a lot of other folk. (Is the viewing demand for F1 that high? The BBC seems to talk about it a lot in recent times - not sure if this is as a reflection of actual high viewing interest or an attempt to drum up viewers in order to justify their spending).

Surprisingly, the British GP appeared in BBC1's most watched programmes for that week. It was 15th at 4.94 million. The probem with the ratings game is the beeb often use numbers to justify anything they want, you can come to almost any conclusion you like from their point of view - that F1 is crucial high profile sports viewership, that the ratings are poor etc.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Been a regular F1 viewer for years, this wasn't unexpected, but its still disappointing, I wont be paying sky to watch it, I think there will be a lot who are regular viewers that will stop watching.

 

[the_mikey]

I just wish there was a proper choice of pay tv platforms, rather than the one full service from Sky and a couple of severely compromised services delivered via terrestrial and cable. Although people really keen not to pay sky can always look at other European tv providers for sports coverage.


I think the BBC should be making more of sports programming it does have the rights to but fails to exploit fully.

 

[Tyke]

The last time sky had F1 it was a shambles, they even ran a pay view on it so you could watch pits, times or any car and see it as many times as you wanted in the same day. Problem came when everyone watched to original race broadcast then found that was all they got as the replays and should have swapped cameras in the live broadcast missing the race while checking timings etc.
By halfway through the season they had to sell it at a reduced price to get people to watch it.

 

[Allirog]

The only thing I find remotely exciting about this season's F1 is Michael Schumacher's attempts to turn it into a super expensive banger racing event, in an embarrassingly desperate bid to recapture his long gone glory days.I wouldn't consider paying to watch a race where the only unpredictable outcome was which driver would finish in second place behind Vettel.

 

[asterix]

At last! A murdock has done me a favour! Why would I pay to watch overpaid idiots in cars doing what I can watch ordinary idiots in cars doing?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I won't be watching it when it switches over. I've been watching F1 on and off for nearly 25 years, ever since I saw Mansell win at Silverstone in '87, and it's all I watch on the telly. I know half the races will be on the BBC, but what use is half a championship? I'd rather not watch it at all. I've got no interest in any other televised sport apart from Moto GP, so I won't even consider paying £40 a month for Sky Sports. And that's even if I didn't object to filling Murdoch's pockets. Anyone want to buy a telly? I won't be needing it for much longer.

 

[TVC]

If I'm around I'll watch the first couple of laps and that's it. I might catch the highlights if it was an eventful (rare I know) race. So I won't miss it.

 

[gavroche]

no way i am going to line murdock's pockets so it is a no go for me.