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Watch live on BBC or Sky depending which it is on. | 36 | 32.73% | |
Watch only BBC live or delayed/highlights. | 48 | 43.64% | |
Watch only BBC live (live or not bother). | 16 | 14.55% | |
Not watch, it is over for me. | 10 | 9.09% | |
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13 Mar 2013, 10:02 (Ref:3217739) | #2576 | |
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Martin Whitmarsh has been speaking on the subject of F1 moving to pay TV and how it will effect their ability to retain and gain new sponsors. He is concerned about the fall off in viewing numbers, but also aware that people are viewing things on new media. I know that FOM will try to get almost any F1 footage removed from you tube as fast as it goes up so that does not help.
http://www.pitpass.com/48529-F1-must...arns-Whitmarsh I would imagine that he is also looking for more money from Bernie to make up the shortfall from the drop in sponsorship due to smaller viewing figures. |
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if tv numbers are going down, then they have to raise the number of people who come into contact with the car, or team and their sponsors in other ways. for me that would be slacking off a bit on youtube and creating videos and stuff with real viral potential.
alternatively if you look away from sport at tv shows and dramas, a lot of those gain worldwide support by the actions of their fans on social media and blogging sites. f1 does gain from that to a point, but making the footage more available and engaging with the competitors more to create more things for the fandom to obsess over is really cheap and easy marketing. the 15 year old fangirls and fanboys on places like tumblr and blogspot are pretty creative, and instead of fighting the copywrite implications of their actions, it's easier to simply let the content to, and allow them to create with it. they then share the resulting creation, and the cumulative effect is that people get involved with a sport that they first saw on a strangers blog on tumblr, for example. the popularity of the kimi "leave me alone, i know what i'm doing" moment and some of the resulting memes (which are then perpetuated by the team themselves) are a good demonstration of how you get people to engage with your brand. the tv channels like sky and the bbc do it by having these cute little segments where they do awkward competitive things with the drivers, sauber produce some pretty random stuff as well. we see mclaren diversifying their image too with their cartoon. so yeah. i think f1 needs to stop trying to monetise directly (a very old-school approach) and accept that a more relaxed approach will benefit them in the long run. |
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17 Mar 2013, 22:58 (Ref:3220277) | #2579 | ||
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I keeping forgetting my poor friends and my brother and my sons havn't got LIVE SKY F1 Coverage and keep sending them messages during the LIVE action! Opps! Sorry Guys (again!) Snigger!
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18 Mar 2013, 09:26 (Ref:3220422) | #2582 | ||
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I was on the end of an angry tirade from a pal on facebook yesterday morning because i had 'spoiled' the race for him by revealing the result with a 'Come on Kimi' status.
Surely, after a year of the Sky/BBC arrangement, you'd know (if you truly cared) not to go on facebook/twitter etc. Personally, If i can't see a race live, i put myself on a total media blackout until I've seen it 'as live'. That's my opinion anyway. What is the general consensus here? |
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urgh, i hate it when people do that. seems pretty straight forward to me - if you don't want to be spoiled, it's YOUR resposibility to make sure that doesn't happen, not your friends and family. that includes isolating yourself from the outside world should you choose to view a race 10 hours after it actually happens.
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Hang on a minute! When did F1 go to Sky Sports and why wasn't I told?
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18 Mar 2013, 12:26 (Ref:3220519) | #2587 | ||
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Whilst idling on my computer yesterday morning I stupidy clicked on my Autosport.com short cut and before I could 'look away now' read the headline that Kimi had won the race!
I still watched the BBC coverage later as obviously the final winner is only part of the story, but knowing that information did take the edge off my enjoyment of what seemed to be a pretty boring race anyway. |
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18 Mar 2013, 12:44 (Ref:3220528) | #2589 | |||
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18 Mar 2013, 13:13 (Ref:3220548) | #2590 | ||
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To be honest, it's pretty one-sided on the giggling front.
You'll find it's Croftie laughing any time MB says anything. I really do mean anything. Selby |
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18 Mar 2013, 18:48 (Ref:3220719) | #2591 | |||
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I used to subscribe to Bernies excellent F1 channel before lack of subscribtions from real enthusiasts caused it's demise...it was brilliant ground breaking technology at the time...you could chose your own camera view...for obviious reasons back then I rode in the cockpit looking over the shoulder of the driver that I wanted to follow...which because he was a mid fielder rarely was shown by the terestrial free channel. Now thank goodness for SKY F1, who have tacken up the mantle of high-tech TV coverage (although I don't have 3D I do have HD which is essential) Brundles Grid walk and Ted's Note-book is great, and the Sky-Pad slow-mo analyasis is super! But being of the older generation (I've been following F1 every season since Mike Hawthorn) I don't need the Musical backing to jazz it up as the action itself is exciting enough. As for the above quote...I want the best LIVE coverage of my favourite sport, I don't smoke or drink...my 'passion' is following LIVE top level Motorsport and far cheaper than travelling to the races, which as an OAP I can't afford to that anymore! I just wish SKY would cover WEC racing (LeMans) as the coverage of that racing is still in the dark-ages by comparison! Last edited by Rennen; 18 Mar 2013 at 18:55. |
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18 Mar 2013, 21:10 (Ref:3220796) | #2593 | |
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You'll have to work it out...... XBMC
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18 Mar 2013, 21:58 (Ref:3220842) | #2594 | ||
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Last year I was so completely anti ever paying for Sky to watch the F1 and totally buying into the whole "watch a stream while listening to radio 5" thing.....but was mainly trying to convince myself, really. Have Sky for this season and suddenly to have all the coverage back, to be able to watch the races live, and to find out that the coverage is actually really good too not to mention comprehensive......it's making me wonder how I did without it last season. Sky done good really.
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I'm sure if, like another poster, my son or daughter were earning a fortune for some of the worst British sports broadcasting I've ever seen in my life I'd change my mind pretty swiftly and subscribe! We're all only human and all points of view are relevant in my opinion, it's no big deal. Last edited by EvilPumpkin; 19 Mar 2013 at 14:34. Reason: can't prove it, don't say it. |
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19 Mar 2013, 14:39 (Ref:3221215) | #2596 | ||
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As for people being mugs, you could say that about pretty much everything, including and probably especially Formula 1 - since I suspect Bernie is certainly on a par with Mr. Murdoch in terms of personal fortune. If you didn't buy anything or watch anything because of a moral objection to those who own or run them, then you had better get off the grid because behind just about everything (except Ten-Tenths sadly...! ) is owned and run by a hyper wealthy man or woman or group of faceless investors that you probably wouldn't want to trust with your kid's pocket money. Sky creates a lot of employment - not just for presenters - and while the ethics of the empire may be cloudy, that doesn't mean that the people who work for them are somehow bad or that the people who purchase the service are mugs. They don't deserve to be insulted. IMHO of course. |
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19 Mar 2013, 14:45 (Ref:3221219) | #2597 | |
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Absolutely, Sky in general offers a good service (along with ESPN, my sports channel of choice).
But crikey you have to pay for it and it is a shame for people who can't afford it to have their faces rubbed into it by certain folk. |
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It's not a question of rubbing people's faces in it - we had Sky before there was an F1 channel because it's that, or just the Irish channels. |
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19 Mar 2013, 14:52 (Ref:3221224) | #2599 | |
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I wasn't saying you were, I think you are being entirely reasonable.
I'd be really bugged if I couldn't afford to watch my favourite sports though. It's not like it is cheap to go and see them live either these days which was once a saving grace. |
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