Dynamics in F1 can change all the time so saying that they are going to be second and third for the next decade is a bold prediction.. how do you know Hamilton or Button won't sign for someone else? you simply don't know what's going to happen it's easy predicting things now the way they look but a lot can change at the end of the season. Hamilton and Button won pretty recently, 2008 and 2009.. wait a few more years before you can say they are a flash in the pan. and let's not forget British drivers have dominated this sport.


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They will axe F1
or they have to close BBC4


This is Big Money Problems.

A good home for F1 would be challages as there can give it as mush time as its needs and it will still be on freeview

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...028943.article

Formula 1 boss makes free-to-air vow

Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has vowed that the sport will stay free-to-air after it emerged that the BBC could halt coverage to save money.

The Sunday Times reported that the BBC was considering dropping F1 as part of the Delivering Quality First initiative, but Ecclestone has said he would “do his best” to ensure continued coverage.

“We want Formula One to stay free to viewers,” Ecclestone told The Times. “That is 100%. The BBC has done a great job for us and we like their shows and the people obviously like it because so many are watching.”

He added: “They did warn me that they were facing problems but, so far, nothing more has been said. I hope they want to keep us because it is such a success and I will do my best to keep Formula One on the BBC.”

ITV broadcast F1 for 12 years before the BBC landed a five year deal in 2009.

That agreement is up for renewal in 2013, and Formula One Teams Association chairman and McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh also threw his weight behind the sport staying free to air.

He told the Daily Telegraph: “It’s crucial to the commercial model of Formula One that TV coverage should remain free-to-air, and therefore universally accessible, and therefore widely consumed and enjoyed by large numbers of viewers - and the BBC delivers that in the UK.”

F1 teams strike multiple lucrative sponsorship deals and reaching the widest possible TV audience has always been a key priority.

Whitmarsh said he “didn’t believe for a moment” that the BBC would seriously consider dropping the sport, and that to do so would be “very sad, and most unwise”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...4-channel.html

BBC scraps F1 to keep clog-dancing channel

THE BBC plans to dump Formula 1 to save BBC4 - home to shows such as Come Clog Dancing.
The Beeb - which signed a £300million five-year deal to air motor racing in 2009 - is desperate to save the high-brow channel.
Recent BBC4 shows have included one about a mass "flashmob" clog dance in Newcastle.
There is also Secret Life of the Motorway, Caravans: A British Love Affair, Still Folk Dancing... After All These Years and The Beauty of Maps.
The channel struggles to top audiences of more than a million, with most shows attracting just a few hundred thousand.
In contrast, F1 brings in decent viewing figures.
The Canadian Grand Prix drew more than eight million last week and there is normally between two and four million for each race.
But it works out at about £1 per viewer, making it the BBC's most costly show and an easy target for bean-counters.
The average cost of an hour of TV is just 7p per viewer.

Wooden ... but clog-dance TV safe
Scrapping F1 when the deal runs out in 2013 will cover the annual £54.3million budget of BBC4. The proposal will be put to the BBC Trust in the autumn.
An insider said: "Axing F1 could be very controversial. Viewers will be livid."

I'm not fussed about F1 but they better not axe Wimbledon.

No 100% Wimbledon is staying on BBC
The have even got Sony in for 3-D Broadcasts on the BBCHD ch
for the finals.

Its the Real Lazy Poster of this thread who does not Edit his Wrong Title.


F1 ,once the current contract ends , is going from the BBC
to ITV.

I dont mind about either I can watch F1 on Setanta so thats fine with me.

Ah, that's alright then.

Was just about to comment 'As if they'd ******ing get rid of F1.'

And seen that.
Woah.

In a couple of years after the contract ends
it goes to ITV.

Times have changed - Pat


The Bloated BBC can no longer afford it.
There only other option if they kept F1 is to close BBC4.
So F1 moves to ITV in a couple of years.

BBC and Sky awarded rights in new Formula 1 deal
 

this is bad news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/9550930.stm


:bawling::bawling::bawling: :bawling::bawling::bawling: :bawling::bawling::bawling:

Scrap the useless TV like cooking shows, dramas not Wimbledon. I will hunt and kill somebody if that goes

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This

Gavin will not be pleased :bored:

Get sky :wink:

I don't want to pay for it, the only sports that Gav watches are F1 and darts(if that's a sport) and he watches darts on some other channel. I don't watch any sport really, so it'd be a waste to pay for it just for F1 :/

but hes still got you :blush:

awww :love:

Aw Michael suck upppp! LOL

Niamh just buy sky your life will be better because of it

Poor guy

No :hmph: I don't need another bill in my life. Any series that I watch that I don't get on TV I watch online, probably would do even if I had the channels cos I can get more up to date episodes online

i can still watch F1 for free when its on sky some how ;)

also Niamh i watch darts last night on itv4 it was funee when that girl lose her show going upstairs :joker: