BBC Cancels F1 Contract

Most if not all those sports happen every year and televised every year

Skiing is on once a week the same as Football when the season is on

People cry and bleat about the lack of sport on BBC

I then post a list of sports the BBC do cover ( and missed a few out ) , people then dismiss the sports ?!

What it shows is that the BBC will never be able to please everyone

They have had their budget slashed yet are faced with sport governing bodies demands for more money and the BBC cant justify spending it.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
People cry and bleat about the lack of sport on BBC
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I am not crying and bleating about the lack of sport on BBC.
I am annoyed that they have chosen to ditch a highly popular sport like F1.
The Olympics come round every 4 years (ok 2 if you alternate between the winter olympics) not every year.
Swimming? Horse racing? Darts? Skiing?
There is no way that any of these sports are more popular than F1. Maybe horse racing, but you can watch that live down the bookies, because it's only the punters that want to watch that!!
 
Smiffy said:
I am not crying and bleating about the lack of sport on BBC.
I am annoyed that they have chosen to ditch a highly popular sport like F1.
The Olympics come round every 4 years (ok 2 if you alternate between the winter olympics) not every year.
Swimming? Horse racing? Darts? Skiing?
There is no way that any of these sports are more popular than F1. Maybe horse racing, but you can watch that live down the bookies, because it's only the punters that want to watch that!!
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In 2014 6 mil watched Hamilton won the World Champ

In 2015 1.7 mil watched Hamilton won the world champ - hugely popular ? Maybe not Smiffy

2015 was Formula 1’s lowest rated season in the UK since 2007, according to overnight viewing figures.

https://f1broadcasting.wordpress.com/category/bbc-f1/

And it's still on terrestrial for people to watch ( or not as the numbers suggest )

In between the Olympics you have the various World Champs on the odd number years , Athletics , Rowing etc all on the BBC

Then you have the commonwealth , World Cup , Euro's , multiple summer events every year

If you want to blame someone then blame the government - they are the ones that are slashing the budget forcing the BBC to make cuts - they have had to cut channels and radio channels to get within budget
 
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chrisd said:
All F1 was being shown on Sky last year and only selected races, and highlights, on BBC so it's pretty inevitable that the viewing figures for BBC would go down as there were alternative viewing available.
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its been like that for a number of years since 2012.
 
If F1 still had it's "wow" factor, it would still be kept on BBC. F1 has been driving towards the meaningless corner for some years.
 
Smiffy said:
A Phil quote from the Strictly thread.....

"Or maybe it's more about people selfish lack of intolerance towards other people's taste - very common these days"

;)
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Tut tut Smiffy

It's a bit naughty isolating a single quote in a thread without adding the context of why the comment was made

I believe it was in response to someone calling people "Idiots" ( and a few less friendlier words ) because they were male and watching Strictly

As opposed to myself giving an opinion on BBC deciding to remove F1 - now if I have called F1 fans boring and idiots etc then the quote you posted would have had some relevance.
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Most if not all those sports happen every year and televised every year

Skiing is on once a week the same as Football when the season is on

People cry and bleat about the lack of sport on BBC

I then post a list of sports the BBC do cover ( and missed a few out ) , people then dismiss the sports ?!

What it shows is that the BBC will never be able to please everyone

They have had their budget slashed yet are faced with sport governing bodies demands for more money and the BBC cant justify spending it.
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But at what level are the sports you listed?

I like watching Darts,I can't remember the last time I watched it in the BBC.

Boxing-when was the last big fight on the BBC?
 
Liverpoolphil said:
In 2014 6 mil watched Hamilton won the World Champ

In 2015 1.7 mil watched Hamilton won the world champ - hugely popular ? Maybe not Smiffy

2015 was Formula 1’s lowest rated season in the UK since 2007, according to overnight viewing figures.

https://f1broadcasting.wordpress.com/category/bbc-f1/

And it's still on terrestrial for people to watch ( or not as the numbers suggest )

In between the Olympics you have the various World Champs on the odd number years , Athletics , Rowing etc all on the BBC

Then you have the commonwealth , World Cup , Euro's , multiple summer events every year

If you want to blame someone then blame the government - they are the ones that are slashing the budget forcing the BBC to make cuts - they have had to cut channels and radio channels to get within budget
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But I thought that was Labours fault for leaving them in the mess?;)
 
Bunkermagnet said:
If F1 still had it's "wow" factor, it would still be kept on BBC. F1 has been driving towards the meaningless corner for some years.
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if only they did drive towards a meaningless corner in the race it would be a bit more exciting than watching which one of just two people from the same team will have the best pit strategy and therefore win.;)
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Tut tut Smiffy

It's a bit naughty isolating a single quote in a thread without adding the context of why the comment was made

I believe it was in response to someone calling people "Idiots" ( and a few less friendlier words ) because they were male and watching Strictly

As opposed to myself giving an opinion on BBC deciding to remove F1 - now if I have called F1 fans boring and idiots etc then the quote you posted would have had some relevance.
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Golf fans calling F1 fans boring idiots? Rearrange these words, black pot kettle.....
 
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