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20 Mar 2004, 08:10 (Ref:911671)
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Thanks ITV
good to see a company who can prioritise... now we all know cartoons are a higher priority than F1 qualifying!
 
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20 Mar 2004, 09:14 (Ref:911750)
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Indeed. I was dumb enough to wake up thinking it was live...
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20 Mar 2004, 09:33 (Ref:911769)
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How many times do you have to be told.
GMTV, not ITV owns the frequency between 0600 and 0925. ITV have bought the space from them for the race - doing so for qualifying is not commercially worthwhile. |
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20 Mar 2004, 09:40 (Ref:911778)
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Hey,
We don't even get the race live in Australia, we have some crappy reality programs that rate much lower than the F1 GP did (second highest in the ratings that week) instead, and have to wait till 10:40 to watch the race. But the TV channel will put the results in to each news break for us to try and avoid. |
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20 Mar 2004, 09:58 (Ref:911801)
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But (comment yet again) what about ITV2
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20 Mar 2004, 10:16 (Ref:911819)
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20 Mar 2004, 11:17 (Ref:911881)
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waste of money !  and yes why not ITV2?
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20 Mar 2004, 11:19 (Ref:911884)
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Well, I am happy not to life in the UK...
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20 Mar 2004, 11:34 (Ref:911903)
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Slightly off topic - but howcomes the ITV-F1.com forums closed down?
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20 Mar 2004, 13:24 (Ref:911987)
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Do you think the BBC would have shown qualifying live if they had the rights? 2 channels after all: show F1 on one and cartoons,as usual, on the other.
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20 Mar 2004, 15:46 (Ref:912147)
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No, the BBC wouldn't have bothered either. It would still have had the feed from News 24. The old coverage from the BBC makes the ITV coverage look good. How many times are people going to have such short memories about the BBC, harking back to the "halycon" days of the BBC not bothering to show qualifying, going off-air immediately the second the race finished and no dedicated F1 programme. GET REAL.
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20 Mar 2004, 17:16 (Ref:912325)
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20 Mar 2004, 20:18 (Ref:912682)
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Granted, not everyone can get ITV2, but it is surely better to air the programme on some medium than not at all, if not, then why does ITV2 exsist!
The fact that not everyone can see it nevert stopped ITV fom airing half of last years rugby world cup on ITV2! so how is this different. If, as it appears, ITV1 is unavailable as first choice, then surely ITV2 would be a logical 2nd choice!!! |
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20 Mar 2004, 20:27 (Ref:912693)
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Did Sky Sports suddenly stop broadcasting the Premiership because some people don't have Sky? No they didn't, so ITV better start putting some qualifying on ITV2 pretty quickly!
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20 Mar 2004, 20:45 (Ref:912720)
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Ironic is it not that ITV expressed it's dissapointment with the current qualifying format (reported on page 9 of this weeks Autosport magazine) further stating that the popularity of the new format would be made clearer by the audience level for this weekend's sessions in Malaysia!...And then don't bother to show it live!...What nonsense is this!!!!?
I for one after 'listening' to qualifying live on BBC 5 Xtra Radio...participated in my own one man protest against the ITV by not bothering to watch their recorded programme at 1.30pm....Whilst I doubt they missed me...when I want to look at history..I'll read last weeks newspapers! |
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20 Mar 2004, 20:46 (Ref:912723)
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20 Mar 2004, 20:49 (Ref:912727)
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actually cartoons are better
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20 Mar 2004, 20:58 (Ref:912743)
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Not live in NZ either,delayed coverage pretending to be live at 10:30pm,which is crappy as they spend and hour pretending to preveiw an event that happened 6 hours earlier.
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20 Mar 2004, 22:10 (Ref:912826)
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It's a pity that here in NZ that the race couldn't be shown live on TV2 as The NZBC owns both TV1 & TV2 and they have done this sort of thing before with other programs.
Maybe all us NZ F1 Petrol Heads should get a petition up and see if we can get them to reprogram the Sunday nights so that they Show both the Malaysian And Japanese GPs on TV2 instead of the normal Sunday Night **** they are showing (bit late this year, for the Malaysian but the Japanese is still to come at the end of the season) |
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20 Mar 2004, 22:19 (Ref:912839)
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Martin Brundle is the star of the show...but as for Mark Blunders...give us a break!
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20 Mar 2004, 23:19 (Ref:912964)
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Every time I check ITV2, it's always a flippin' soap omnibus. If they can't show qally live on ITV1 because GMTV own the airtime, show it live on ITV2! Of course, the same proramme should also be shown on ITV1 as well when possible for those who don't have access to it. They have this extra channel at their disposal, but they still put tosh on it. |
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21 Mar 2004, 01:48 (Ref:913226)
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Even with Eurosports terrible programming schedules....sometimes , i wish they still had the rights to F1....as they did actually do quite a committed job in their coverage ....
ITV are pants....yes , Brundle is very good .....but thats the only plus point i can see.....They dont deserve to cover the sport.... |
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21 Mar 2004, 01:52 (Ref:913235)
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Very true sato. But as in everything, money talks. *sigh*
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21 Mar 2004, 10:22 (Ref:913758)
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GMTV have the frequency at that time of the morning so it seems nothing much can be done about that. But what excuse do ITV have for not showing qualifying live when it is on in the evening? ITV have never shown qualifying for Canada live (nor IIRC did they show qualifying for Brazil and Indy live last year); what chance is there of that ever changing?
Would there really be that much uproar from Saturday evening prime time viewers to deter live coverage of evening qualifying? In fairness to ITV; at least they show all* the races live - in contrast to Eurosport when you are left wondering if/when the forthcoming CART/F3000 races are going to be shown. * (except Indianapolis in 2000 )
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21 Mar 2004, 10:35 (Ref:913785)
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I think people are complaining too much about this, although it was a nuisance for me yesterday, as I avoided the result so I could see it, adn couldn't get online afterwards.
Showing it on ITV2 is no use to most people, an you can still avoid the result until then easily enough. As for the Saturday evening qualifying, the shows they show have much higher viewing figures, as well as a regular schedule, so it's perfectly natural to concentrate on those. BBC never showed more than 5 minutes of qualifying away from Silverstone, so let's be grateful for what we get now. |
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