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The problem at the top of BBC is that they are more concerned about paying themselves (and others further down the food-chain) ridiculously high salaries that they are more than prepared to ditch programmes in order to save their own bank balances. It is obscene!
How else could any corporation (business) justify recruiting an American to reorganise staffing in London, and allow the contract of employment to stipulate that the recruit would be able to continue living in New York, and that the employer (the BBC in this case) would pay for the recruit to commute weekly to the UK and provide 1st class tickets for such travel. There is more extravegance to that story, and there are countless other wastes of money that occur on a daily basis. However, in defence of the Beeb, what other broadcaster in the world would allow one of it's current affairs programmes to investigate the actions of another of it's current affairs programme plus the behaviour of it's senior management, and then permit the resulting programme, which was pretty damming about what had happened, to be broadcast without any outside (or indeed, inside) interference or censorship? I don't think that there will be many, if any at all! |
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in Canada, our F1 broadcaster (TSN) uses, and i assume pays for, the BBC coverage. that might be unusual these days with many national broadcaster buying the rights to the feed directly from FOM and providing their own commentary, but i would have though that the sports broadcasting of the BBC was actually or could be a money maker in other English speaking regions.
Wimbledon i would have thought falls into that same category. perhaps more so if BBC has the ability to sell the rights to the 'world feed' so others could overlay it with their own commentators. anyways if it goes i will miss their coverage. |
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The fact that the BBC could have spent £20 million upgrading Pebble Mill to modern standard, but instead decided to spend well over £100 million moving to the new Mailbox studio, which is totally not fit for purpose, should give some idea of how the BBC go about making management and budget decisions.
Pebble Mill was also subject to a ridiculously low rent which went back decades. BBC Mailbox the rent costs are colossal. |
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I disagree I'm afraid. I find Ted's Notebook on Sky very informative, MB with DH and JH on Sky, a professional team. What I can't stand is the excitable commentator on the BBC alongside DC, who screams away in excitement at the slightest thing.
As I've said before, Sky Go, here in France for £20 a month, covers all F1, 24 hours a day and most Sky channels, and no, it doesn't buffer. |
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yeah Ben Edwards is a bit too much. thats probably why i have feelings of nostalgia for Brundle/DC pairing.
although if the BBC walk away, should I hope for a reunion on SKY? |
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I like Edwards but I stopped watching it after the bad stuff with Anderson. Losing Anderson, Jordan barely being tolerable and Perry, who's competent enough but who doesn't inspire me either - it just doesn't move me to watch the BBC's offerings anymore.
Sky do a very strong job. They have Hill, Herbert, Brundle. The other presenters have all upped their game there. And that's where I go to watch F1. |
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17 Dec 2015, 18:13 (Ref:3598425) | #738 | |
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There might be a change on the way for UK TV coverage as ITV are rumoured to be taking over from the BBC with a similar type of coverage. Sky will still be doing their all live thing.
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/it...k-new-f1-deal/ With the BBC looking to cut costs getting rid of F1 would be a very cost effective way of doing it. What effect it will have on the commentary teams is anybody's guess. Last edited by wolfhound; 17 Dec 2015 at 18:29. |
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As long as we don't "guess" James Allen and adverts during the racing with ITV
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It'll be interesting to see if ITV simply buy out the BBC contract leaving the existing production company in place. Or try and find something fresh or gimicky.
Given ITV4's coverage of Formula E on a Saturday and BTCC on a Sunday, it'll be interesting to see which 10 races they would take live. Likely coverage clashes would include 2nd April Formula E Longbreach - FP3 and Qually Bahrain 3nd April BTCC Brands Hatch - Bahrain Race 17th April BTCC Donington - Shanghai Race .... Time Zones may help. 19th June BTCC Croft - Azerbaijan Race...The F1 race is already being time switched to avoid the end of LeMans. This will likely put it in conflict with race 3 2nd July Formula E London 1 - FP3 and Qually Austria 3rd July Formula E London 2 - Possible overlap into Race Austria 31 July BTCC Snetterton - Germany Race 28th August BTCC Rockingham - Belgium Race 18 Sept BTCC Silverstone - Singapore Race ... Runs to European times 2 Oct BTCC finale Brands HatchGP - Malaysia Race ...Time Zones help if run at normal time. If ITV wanted to avoid clashes at all, and that Silverstone is a given then it's 9 races from below. 20 March: Melbourne, Australia - Early Morning 1 May: Sochi, Russia - Morning 15 May: Barcelona, Spain - lunch 29 May: Monte Carlo, Monaco -Lunch 12 June: Montreal, Canada - Evening 10 July: Silverstone, United Kingdom -Lunch 24 July: Budapest, Hungary - Lunch 4 September: Monza, Italy - Lunch 9 October: Suzuka, Japan - Early Morning 23 October: Austin, USA** - Evening 30 October: Mexico City, Mexico - Evening 13 November: Sao Paolo, Brazil - Late Afternoon 27 November: Abu Dhabi, UAE - Lunch How much scheduling chaos do they want to cause, of course it'll be easier to show the Morning races as ITVplc now hold the Breakfast franchise. Just to throw a cycling spanner into the Mix the Tour De France will be all over ITV4 from 2nd July London's Formula E weekend through to and finishing on the 24th of July during the Hungarian GP. Would ITV want to go all the way from Silverstone on 10th July all the way through to Monza on September 4th with only Highlights of Hungary and Spa in between? I can understand why ITV would take want F1 back, and with ITV 4 HD having sports all over it, it would be a perfect home to the Free Practice Coverage. My only though would then be would, are the 10 Qually and 10 race programs going to be enough of a draw on ITV1. |
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Overall to have the BBC keep backing out of agreements is a bad thing and surely it will make other sports bodies wary of dealing with them if they simply break agreements or trade them elsewhere.
Overall it will surely further hurt UK viewing figures as ITV are bound to plague the coverage with adverts - try watching a film on ITV2 - you almost lose the will to live! Which will put off the occasional fans that make up the extra viewing figures on top of the die hards. Last edited by Moneyseeker; 18 Dec 2015 at 09:32. Reason: typo |
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What is interesting is that Mr Brundle himself has said F1 needs to stay on Terristial. I only hope someone listens to his common sense. Why it's a pain half the races are live, it's better than nothing
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Well, they need to keep the adverts out of there if ITV are doing it. Edwards has a history ITV doesn't he? I'm sure he'd make the crossover.
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11:07 Uk time, BBC News confirms immediate termination of contract for F1. Unclear if this also includes Radio as well.
Edit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-3514996...e=news_central Not ITV but Channel 4 BBC Radio coverage contiues until 2021 Last edited by ScotsBrutesFan; 21 Dec 2015 at 11:17. |
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35149963 I wonder will how much of the current TV operation will transfer to C4? I would suspect C4 would like some of the commentry team for continuity purposes. The deal is for 2016-18 according to C4. http://www.channel4.com/info/press/n...de906f68a35e34 Last edited by wolfhound; 21 Dec 2015 at 11:27. Reason: further information |
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Channel will go advert free according to broadcast now website.
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Let's hope they don't take on the BBC pundits and commentators, if I'm not at home where I watch in on Sky F1 I watch it on the Beeb with the sound off!
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