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F1 on BBC in 2009

Should the BBC be allowed to spend money on rights like this ?

  • Yes - I pay my license fee so they should use it for something

    Votes: 11 50.0%
  • Yes - But i would rather the license fee was scrapped

    Votes: 2 9.1%
  • No - I dont care which channel it on, adverts can pay for it

    Votes: 7 31.8%
  • No - It should be pay per view, like Sky Sports

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I dont really care

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • Total voters
    22
Well when i heard this i thought ah great no adverts.. although that was it.

I personally dont care which channel F1 is on as long as i get to watch it, however is it right the BBC should spend £200m on obtaining the rights for the next few years ?

It all goes back to the same old question, why do we still have to pay for a TV license when all the money is used for winning a bidding war like this. If its on ITV ro SKY then we don't pay for it, although you get adverts.

Whats your view..
 
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The main thing that bugs me about the BBC is their scrapping of their own R&D! and selling off their most useful property.

ie.. 3 years ago they shut down their in-house Neighbours site.. then the general soaps area.. then chucked Neighbours in altogether.

Now I do think their iPlayer is great.. shame there are no decent programs on it though.

I feel like my license fee is going mainly towards non-bbc stuff like their outsourced IT, Production etc.. most BBC in-house programme productions also gone.. yet they are also making millions selling off their R&D Building in Kingswood, Surrey!

Edit: oh - and they ALSO scrapped their XP Mediacenter News area.. Grr! (although most of the time it told me I was out of the UK).

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
... however is it right the BBC should spend £200m on showing it for one season ?

AFAIK the cost is around £30 million/year, not £200 million per season. Personally I don't find F1 entertaining nowadays. Mansell was great but those days are long gone. I agree though that it's pointless for the licence fee to pay for something we already got for free from ITV. :hrmph:
 
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I guess I don't care which channel the F1 is on, so long as it isn't lost to pay-per-view as that would utterly devastate me. Still, given ITVs financial situation and the popularity of F1, they wouldn't want to lose that to the BBC, would they?

On a related note, my biggest gripe with the BBC has been their willingness to dumb down on science programmes. I used to love Horizon until they turned it into something more unscientific and akin to Panorama, which itself has become deeply misleading of late (Wi-Fi radiation anyone?).

That and the heinous amount of “reality” shows make Saturday night viewing fine for some but terrible for others, the balance has been lost. Now I don’t want to sound sexist here but as a man I feel that most of TV today is too politically correct and geared towards women, except Top Gear :) .
 
Hi All,

I am happy with the BBC taking over from ITV, no more interuptions with adverts. ITV have the technology to show the whole race even with the adverts, but they would have to cut some of the pre-race banter to fit in with their time schedule.

I think the main question to ask is " why it is suddenly back on the BBC". Is there a conflict in F1 admin and ITV?.

Paul.
 
I think the main question to ask is " why it is suddenly back on the BBC". Is there a conflict in F1 admin and ITV?.

I believe the rumour is that ITV are saving their pennies for the Champion's League bidding war.

Mark.J said:
I used to love Horizon ... most of TV today is too politically correct and geared towards women

I don't watch Horizon often anymore (for the same reason), and the Open University don't broadcast overnight now (and the programmes they do make for BBC 2 tend to be higher on "fun" than facts). About the only science programme left is "The Sky at Night"; what's the betting they're just waiting for Patrick to shuffle off this mortal coil (probably to be replaced by Mylene Klass and a new viewer friendly format - Klass is an OU Astronomy student) ?

As for TV geared towards women, yes I tend to agree daytime TV is and the evening is saturated with "continuing dramas" of one type or another.Having said that I don't really like Top Gear with its forced "blokeiness". BBC 4 is OK I suppose ... Guess I'm hard to please ? :shrug:
 
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AFAIK the cost is around £30 million/year, not £200 million per season. Personally I don't find F1 entertaining nowadays. Mansell was great but those days are long gone. I agree though that it's pointless for the licence fee to pay for something we already got for free from ITV. :hrmph:

I took the £200m from here - http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a91960/f1-returns-to-bbc-after-12-years-at-itv.html although i should have said it was for a few years
 
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I think F! is returning to the Beeb purely because the little dwarf is unnhappy with ITV's coverage.

Don't think he's tall enough to be a dwarf -

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He is the perfect height to appreciate his wife's ... erm ... eyes ? ;)
 
bbc can find a reported £200million for f1 but were recently offered scotland home football coverage for £30 million but stated they could not find or justify this level of funding so setanta and sky have the home and the away games between them a pay per stitch up

international teams of britain england,scotland,wales and n ireland should be kept to terrestrial channels for the masses and not the few who have the means to pay for sky sports and setanta or be forced to watch in a pub or club

bbc biased or what

i'm on a rant
 
My biggest problem with the ITV coverage is their constantly interrupting the actual racing for advertising .They usually have an hour or so of chat before a race starts so why not put all advertising in during the chat ?. I would not mind it being on SKy or any Paid service provided they do not interrupt the Race it self .From the BBC point of view They have a large number of channels ie:1 to 4 then Kids TV . Why cannot they be Like SKY and put all their sport on separate channels . It is infuriating when regular programs are run at different times or not at all because of sport.

Sorry but it is my age that makes me such a moaner:D
 
ld rather them spend money on something worth spending it on, hell ld rather not pay the licensing fee l dont watch TV but regardless of that fact they dont care, just by owning a TV regardless of ariel they still want their fees which annoys the crap out of me since my TV is my monitor.
 
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both of which l dont listen to or read if l can help it..
 
Tried to watch F1 the other day and yawn.......boring. Almost as bad as football.

When sport becomes more about money that the actual participating then it loses everything.

World Superbikes is worth watching.
MotoGP needs to lose the traction control to make it more exciting. (Come on James)
 
miffie has a good point the bbc could dedicate a seperate sports channell

bbc 4 content is very poor at the best of times this could be supplemented by the sports content for say 6 hours per day showing live events when available and replays at other times
 
Going bavk to the OT - I think the BBC should try to provide programming for as much of the population as possible. This inevitably means spending large amounts on sports as there are a lot of sports fans out there.

However, the BBC has to also provide programs that are for minority interests, otherwise there is no benefit to the license.

Channel 4 was originally meant to provide programs like this (targetting the Arts etc) but you can't do it when you rely of advertising revenue.

Personally, I think the BBC actually provides good value for money - I read somewhere that what they spend equates to less than 20p per person per day. I use the beebs website daily, and get more that 20p-worth of enjoyment from their TV programs as well.
 
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