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Originally Posted by S griffin
It's disgraceful the way the BBC has been treated by both Bernie and the government. It deserved to keep F1 after the brilliant job it did. The people who did it were top notch. Somehow I don't think Channel 4 will be quite the same. Only hope now is BT Sport get it
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BBC was always going to get rid of F1, no matter what happened or how much it cost when management changed hands. There is some sort of fallacy that F1 is not value for money compared to other sports.
Wimbledon- Cost - £40m
- Viewers - 1.6m
- Cost per head - £25m (!)
F1- Cost - £55m
- Viewers - 4m (per race)
- Cost per head - £13m per race
- Cost per head - £760k per season
Numbers from Googling. F1 costs a fraction of the Tennis compared to the actual viewers. Yet Tennis was fine to keep? Could it be that the management of BBC just didn't like F1? Because frankly that's how it looks when you compare it to other sports. I wonder if they're tennis fans...