Well this happened in Finland. Figures went from 2 million to 200,000. So expect similar in the UK.
BBC3 and BBC4 could easily be merged into 1 channel, with the constant repeats shoved onto iPlayer (that's the point in it, isn't it?). cBeebies and CBBC need to become the same channel too. BBC Parliament needs to go back to merged with BBC News (like it was before), which would advan
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F1 I hate the decision aswell, but the sports you mention do not come near the cost of F1.
Wimbeldon actually does. It also has far lower viewing figures than F1 (partly due to being shown during the day, during the week, when people are working). However that was Government protected, so could not be chopped. Seem fair?
They can not afford to sustain such brilliant coverage.
They actually
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F1 As much as we could go into F1s contractual issues, this one is all the BBCs fault. These massive sweeping cuts are having an effect all over the BBC. F1 is just the bit we're most pissed about.
BBCs finances are indeed a complete joke.
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F1 Really need to look at how the BBC managed to @#$%& up the funding this badly, and enter into a contract they couldn't afford. They've actually managed to save @#$%& all money whilst screwing us over too. I'm more pissed at the BBCs stupidity than F1s greed right now.
And this goes further than Bernie. Adam Parr made a statement which he had to backtrack on, which was along the
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F1 As much as I want to blame Bernie for this one, it isn't his fault. BBC broke the contract with the insane budget cuts which have been forced through due to the piss-poor money management.
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F1 On the topic of Heidfelds explosion, I'm not sure why there is any confusion over it. The exhaust runs passed the KERS battery. There were electrical sparks before the explosion. The smell as electrical. It was the KERS battery. The ECU battery is on the right hand side.
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> Well to be fair it's only rained once before in 26
> years at the Hungaroring iirc, so it's probably
> not fair to compare yet. Great drive from Jenson,
> nice timing with the 200 GPs thing. I'm a bit
> disappointed for Lewis but fourth isn't so bad, he
> responded maturely, and th
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F1 truecrysis Wrote:
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> who says races at the hungaroring are boring and
> have no overtaking?
Bridgestone.
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F1 gav Wrote:
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> The chance of showers are meant to recede as the
> day goes on, so the best you're likely to get is a
> green track.
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> Come on, this is Hungary. We've had what, 1 rain
> affected race in the past 25 years or something?
2 minutes ago, it begun raining. :P Inters atm.
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F1 Sky say there will be no breaks. But so did ITV. And given the Ofcom violations regarding the amount of ad breaks in Skys NASCAR Coverage, I'll believe it when I see it.
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F1 I always said I'd take the pre-race/qualifying away, in favour of a short build up (grid-walk) and a good run down (the F1 forum is cheap) to cut costs. But not showing the races live? Whilst Wimbeldon gets wall to wall coverage, but a fraction of the viewers? Thanks BBC.
Pissed off BBC3 has been saved, despite showing almost nothing of value, and F1 takes the biggest hit, despite provid
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F1 So you think there will be an (illegal) feed on line for sky sports?
Theres about 20 of them right now.
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F1 Their football coverage is good, adverts aside their cricket coverage is fine.
Ah, so if you take out the bad stuff, it's fine? No, sorry - it's bad. You are paying almost £500 per year (over £600 if you want HD), and you're still being forced to see ads than your shows. That is what we call "getting f**ked".
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F1 marwood82 Wrote:
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> they've
> > said there won't be ad breaks
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> > Which presumably means the PPV figure (for the
> > race itself at least) will
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F1 marwood82 Wrote:
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> not much of a consolation but at least they've
> said there won't be ad breaks
ITV said there would be no ad breaks, and all practice and qualifying would be live (on ITV1-4). No practice sessions were ever broadcast, qualifying was often delayed, and every race ran with ad breaks. Fool me once, shame
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F1 QuoteFor 12 months of Sky Sports a new user will have to pay £487*. And that’s only if you want to see the action in standard definition.
To see every F1 race in HD next year the price goes up to an eye-watering £610.
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F1 Won't be lining the pockets of criminals in order to watch F1. Supporting a sport is a 2 way deal. You support the fans, they'll support you.
But hey, with Murdoch involved now we might get some more pit to car radio broadcast...
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F1 Performance was never fixed properly and the maps are badly designed (game play wise). 70% score is too low given shite like GT5 and Halo get 90+, but it's still not that good.
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Other Games infact it was probably the worst rookie first race by any f1 driver in the last 15 years.
Yuji Ide would like a word with you.
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F1 If MW came on camera and serveral times stated he told Lewis and JB to stop racing because it would end in the wall, the media would go crazy! And the fans!
Whitmarsh did do that in Turkey 2010. But as long as you continue to ignore this point whilst declaring Horner the devil, this conversation is over for me.
*bows out*
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F1 Turkey was interesting. As I said if the cars were critical on fuel then the requests from the pits were reasonable. If the cars were not critical and it was a coded message not to race thne that is disapointing. Jenson obviously did not understand because he went for the lead. Thing is, we do not know the situation on fuel do we? All we know is that Jenson went for the lead, lost and left it at
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F1 I said I could live with it. I can, so I won't argue the point. And if I am in the wrong, it wouldn't be the first time, nor would it be the last.
Oh I know, I wasn't meaning to argue, more saying that if he said 4 then I'm wrong. :P I only said 2 because I actually thought that. But knowing my hearing he could have said 22 and I'd have been none the wiser. :P
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F1 If the Sauber instance was based on the same circumstances including championship then yes we would make a fuss.
So team orders are only bad if it's for front running positions? We should only be out raged of the conduct of the front running cars, and let the teams at the back have free reign on what they do? Does that apply to only legal (but immoral) situations like Red Bulls, or are th
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F1 Horner claims it was the last 4 laps, so you are probably pushing the facts to make your point.
He said 2 laps on the BBC forum iirc. I said 2 because I thought it was 2. If he said 4 then I retract my comment and change it to 4.
That is a fair point of Red Bull I suppose. I think there is still a vast difference between the team orders which those like Ferrari have applied (swapping cars)
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F1 Mark has had pistop preference alllllll year. Simply because Vettel has made up such a lead that there is no major loss for Vettel. Thats simply logical.
No he hasn't. Mark generally pits earlier because he's losing time when his tyres go off first. That's pit stop preference through neccesity, rather than choice. At Silverstone he was given pit stop preference despite no tyre d
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F1 It was so obvious in the way DC changed from the polish McLaren boy-product to the scruffy no nonsense punk attitude he developed at Red Bull.
I kinda agree with that, but some interviews that DC has given has suggested that if you don't play that way, you aren't allowed in McLaren. Brundle once made a little fun of his scruffy bearded look, and he said at McLaren you couldn't
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F1 So in Turkey 2009, when they told Vettel to park behind Mark and not challenge him whilst they were 2nd and 3rd, I take it the same argument applies? They shouldn't have given Mark the position, etc?
And I guess we'll just ignore that Mark got preference in the pit stops yesterday, despite the teams stance being first on track would get priority. But lets put it this way. Lets say Pe
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F1 Morbid Wrote:
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> Massa can only thank Massa for losing 4th. He
> threw it away, regardless of what happened in the
> previous corner.
Massa shouldn't have even been in that position anyway. His team mate is running away at the front with the fastest lap, and he's battling for 4th. That's not really good enough,
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F1 di Resta just ratted out Force India by accident. I guess they forgot to tell him they lied about the "unscheduled stop" and he told everybody what we all knew about that stop. Force Indias strategy this season has been awful.
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