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Joe,
Nice piece about the BBC/SKY deal.
Now that the fog of hysteria is lifting,
perhaps people will see this arrangement
for what it really is.
Internet TV is the future for mass communication.
The trick is to provide the right content for a global family audience,
after all F1 is not just about cars going around in circles.
Why do people attack personalities as a knee jerk reaction to events
without knowing the full facts?
All the best
Believe me Joe, I’m more than happy too embrace paying (beyond my license fee payments) to watch F1. But I won’t embrace paying for football, golf, cricket, wrestling, cycling and whatever else they show, in order to watch F1. (Just read the Le Mans article – great piece, thanks).
Joe,
While I appreciate your neutral position on the Sky contract, what galls me is that FOM (and FOTA it seems) believes that an extra £15m per year in TV revenue is worth depriving a significant part of the show from a significant share of their target audience.
It is this attitude more than the cost itself which will probably make me switch off next year.
Well done again.
The decision to withdraw from F-1 was taken by Mercedes-Benz before the 1955 Le Mans disaster. But that tragedy leads to a total withdraw from motorsport except some rallying (450 SLC) in the late 70s and the Group C Sauber-Mercedes of the 80s early 90s.
Commenting somewhat blind here, as I haven’t read GP+, but I’m getting slightly more relaxed about the new BBC/Sky arrangement. I already time delay quite a lot of my viewing (demands of a young family), so if I can watch a decent highlights package from the Beeb, that will probably do me OK.
However, it’s still got to be said that what I’m getting as a fan from this deal is a (hopefully) slight reduction in how much F1 I can see. There’s no actual upside.
And as I’ve said before, the absolute last thing the sport needs is more cash. Yes, the small teams are struggling. But they will always have a small proportion of the cake and no matter how big the cake gets they will continue to struggle. The increase in available cash just means that more can be spent on overoptimising the cars (i.e eliminating mistakes and unexpected results) and building new circuits.