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Dudley

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It's possible that Sky will just pay the BBC to produce the whole thing. They've been doing it for years (and decades before the ITV wilderness) and Sky could get all the benefit with zero effort.

Although then they'd have some fairly serious trouble justifying their "changing the face of F1 coverage" boast.

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If true, the claim that they sacrificed F1 for Wimbledon is a great shame. I love tennis but it is a sport that features one great player from this country, plus several also rans. F1 has several British based teams, two British World Champions and a very talented Scot.

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marsh

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Objection! He was on ITV, Nickelodeon, C4, movies and CBS before BBC.

Oh, my apologies. If you'd rather they pay him for Gavin and Stacey, bit parts in Doctor who, and generally being an unfunny cunt, then your a better man than me :coffee:

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If true, the claim that they sacrificed F1 for Wimbledon is a great shame. I love tennis but it is a sport that features one great player from this country, plus several also rans. F1 has several British based teams, two British World Champions and a very talented Scot.

They effectively have; both sports cost roughly the same per year, but with F1 getting higher viewing figures (in every main way of measuring it; peak audience, average audience and number of 'unique viewers' over the tournament/season).

Then Match Of The Day costs almost as much as the two combined, but with half the average audience...

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Dudley

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They effectively have; both sports cost roughly the same per year, but with F1 getting higher viewing figures (in every main way of measuring it; peak audience, average audience and number of 'unique viewers' over the tournament/season).

Then Match Of The Day costs almost as much as the two combined, but with half the average audience...

Although there are 50 odd programs a season for MotD and the production costs are significantly lower than F1 I'd imagine.

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They effectively have; both sports cost roughly the same per year, but with F1 getting higher viewing figures (in every main way of measuring it; peak audience, average audience and number of 'unique viewers' over the tournament/season).

Then Match Of The Day costs almost as much as the two combined, but with half the average audience...

That's wrong! MOTD obliterated f1 figures when showing live games, has higher figures for the higjligts show and costs significantly less per show than f1

But carry on ;)

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MrPogo

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That's wrong! MOTD obliterated f1 figures when showing live games, has higher figures for the higjligts show and costs significantly less per show than f1

But carry on ;)

I was just referring to the Premier League highlights shows, which my figures say are getting 3.8 million viewers on average with the annual cost for the rights at just shy of £60 million. I thought F1 was getting more like 8 million viewers per race this season.

As far as I'm aware live matches are an extra expense on top of that, and may well be far more cost effective on a "pounds per person" basis, but are a completely different kettle of fish that grossly distorts the averages if it's all lumped in together.

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I was just referring to the Premier League highlights shows, which my figures say are getting 3.8 million viewers on average with the annual cost for the rights at just shy of £60 million. I thought F1 was getting more like 8 million viewers per race this season.

As far as I'm aware live matches are an extra expense on top of that, and may well be far more cost effective on a "pounds per person" basis, but are a completely different kettle of fish that grossly distorts the averages if it's all lumped in together.

Compare the f1 highlights to the football highlight show then, cant really compare a live even to highlight show! It's not worth comparing them at all as football and f1 are not fair to compare - pretty sure some races only got 2m viewers with others up to 9, not sure 8m as an average is correct??

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cant really compare a live even to highlight show!

While I remain unconvinced by the figures given, I don't see why not.

Ultimately, any programme can be broken down as costing X to get Y viewers per hour (although other metrics should probably be thrown in for good measure).

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Compare the f1 highlights to the football highlight show then, cant really compare a live even to highlight show! It's not worth comparing them at all as football and f1 are not fair to compare - pretty sure some races only got 2m viewers with others up to 9, not sure 8m as an average is correct??

You can when it's all about saving money and the highlights for one cost more than the live event of the other! :P Anyway, the point was just an angry "why pick on F1 when they could have saved more from the sport budget elsewhere and pissed off fewer viewers in the process?" (even if that statement is contentious!).

I'm sure there are dozen of other ways they could have saved the money (perhaps by dropping a combo of six other sports with relatively worse viewing figures), just that one's a big easy target for the late night venom!

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davius

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14356455

I hope Jenson doesn't hear about this til after the race.

He's heard about it. As he reassured all his twitter flowers. So long as it's actually him that manages his twitter. Which I've no reason to believe it isn't.

JensonButton: Morning everyone I'm sure you've realised by now but someone hacked into my website last night, I'm completely fine and on my way to #200
JensonButton: The guy who did it obviously didn't have any better offers on a Saturday night so stayed home to do that instead #getsomefriends

:lol:

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marsh

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No, it's a circuit he's always gone well at and depending on the weather, in either extreme of wet or dry his tyre management should get him to the front......

I can't see Lewis faring too well at the start from that side of he grid. Alonso's stuck behind his team mate captain slow and unless he pass's him on the first lap it's going to be a long afternoon.

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bradigor

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Does Jake always say "Welcome to uninterrupted coverage..." or was that another dig at Sky?

I hope it was a dig.

I was worried when they introduced Jake as the F1 host originally. But he has done a wonderful job and it would be a crying shame if that was pulled from under him. :(

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