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New UK TV Deal

The BBC and Sky Sports will broadcast Formula 1 in the UK between 2012 and 2018 under a new rights deal.

The BBC has been the exclusive broadcaster of F1 in the UK since 2009 but its contract with Formula One Management was due to expire after the 2013 season.

Sky Sports will show every race, qualifying session and practice live.

BBC Sport will broadcast half the races live, as well as the qualifying and practice sessions from those races.

Both companies will broadcast in high definition.

The BBC will have highlights on TV and mobile for any race it it is not showing live, and all races will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 live.

Barbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: "We are absolutely delighted that F1 will remain on the BBC.

"The sport has never been more popular with TV audiences at a 10-year high and the BBC has always stated its commitment to the big national sporting moments.

"With this new deal not only have we delivered significant savings but we have also ensured that through our live and extended highlights coverage all the action continues to be available to licence-fee payers."

Races shown live on BBC TV will include the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the Monaco GP and the concluding race of the season.

Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports, said: "This is fantastic news for F1 fans and Sky Sports will be the only place to follow every race live and in HD.

"We will give F1 the full Sky Sports treatment with a commitment to each race never seen before on UK television."

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No way am I paying quite literally £600 for Sky Sports so I can genuinely seeing myself failing to properly follow F1 because of this. It's not like Indycar or AutoGP, if I download an F1 race no way am I avoiding the result until I can watch it about Wednesday so I'll just end up not bothering to.

F1 audiences at a 10 year high, 8 million watching a race so let's give it to a channel with less than 1% viewer share, that'll help. If I was a sponsor targeting the UK market I'd be livid.

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F1 audiences at a 10 year high, 8 million watching a race so let's give it to a channel with less than 1% viewer share, that'll help. If I was a sponsor targeting the UK market I'd be livid.

Don't worry FOTA understand this and have the fans interest at heart as well, oh... Fuck them as well.

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Same I have sky but there is no way on earth that I'm paying £20 per month for 20 races & why should I follow a sport I can only watch half of.

When I was at the FOTA fan forum the entire room was against this so nice to see the "most important people, the fans" totally ignored.

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When I was at the FOTA fan forum the entire room was against this so nice to see the "most important people, the fans" totally ignored.

Was just reading the transcript, we want to protect the fans interest, bollocks do you.

I'm really pissed off at this and genuinely feeling lost, I've watched F1 all my life and can probably count on one hand the amount of races I've missed live, virtually nothing comes ahead of watching F1 and at the same time I've no interest in Sky, so all of a sudden I can't properly follow the sport I love.

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FUCK YOU MURDOCH. FUCK YOU.

This is a massive disaster. I am FUMING. I would have preferred it to go to sodding C5 than this. How on earth have FOTA allowed this to happen?! Disaster for the UK public and a fucking MASSIVE disaster for F1.

I am seriously pissed off.

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The BBC also pissed away the last two years of their deal for this shit, there isn't a single person I'm not seriously pissed at and fuck those on the BBC trying to spin this as good news, once again it's another shit deal for the fans.

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Muchos sucko. I thought it would stay on free-to-air. :(

I have Sky and Sky Sports, but still sad to see the BBC so eager to reduce their commitment. As always it comes down to cold hard cash.

Yet I assume they'll still find the money to churn out endless streams of shite like the Twatting About On Ice and Lets Fund The Interview Process For Millionaire Businessmen And Musical Producers type shows that clog up the schedules.

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So to follow the F1 now we need to fork out for Sky and then endure adverts throughout the races. Brilliant.

They don't have adverts during football matches or rugby or their movies so I don't see why they'll automatically have them here.

Anyway I welcome a new era of F1 coverage. No doubt Sky will add plenty to the coverage given by the Beeb.

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There are sites for football so there will be sites for F1 fuck paying sky a penny. I hope the viewing figures are fucking dire!

This!

So, do we have the BBC presentation team for the BBC races and a sky team for sky races?! The only thing that would make me not want to go postal is the same team as we have now all continue and do all the races.

% chance of that happening? Fuck all.

The flash of anger has gone. Deflated is the word.

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