Formula one

Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to receive
19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five, something I
used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad breaks, until for
some reason they increasingly started to coincide with the ones being
broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a pointless exercise.

"Rick" wrote in message
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Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to receive
19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five, something
I used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad breaks, until
for some reason they increasingly started to coincide with the ones being
broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a pointless exercise.

We used to do this, but it won't be HD - perhaps Bernie Ecclestone can be
persuaded to ensure that F1 is available from some other EU satellite
broadcaster in HD and using a CI CAM? I for one am NOT paying $ky for it,
although for a premium service (including a choice of cuts to the pits,
leader etc.) I would pay FIA or someone else.

"Rick" wrote in message
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Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
Can I be pedantic and point out that 100% of F1 races will be going to Sky
TV?

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On 30/07/2011 15:06, Rick wrote:
Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to
receive 19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five,
something I used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad
breaks, until for some reason they increasingly started to coincide with
the ones being broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a
pointless exercise.

All sport should be on pay TV.

"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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"Rick" wrote in message
...
Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to
receive 19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five,
something I used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad
breaks, until for some reason they increasingly started to coincide with
the ones being broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a pointless
exercise.

We used to do this, but it won't be HD - perhaps Bernie Ecclestone can be
persuaded to ensure that F1 is available from some other EU satellite
broadcaster in HD and using a CI CAM? I for one am NOT paying $ky for it,
although for a premium service (including a choice of cuts to the pits,
leader etc.) I would pay FIA or someone else.


Well if it's a choice between paying Sky, attempting to watch it on a
streaming Internet connection or a German satellite SD channel, then I'll
suffer and force myself to watch it in standard definition :-)

Don't rtl own part of Sky anyway?

Brian

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"Rick" wrote in message
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Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to receive
19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five, something
I used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad breaks, until
for some reason they increasingly started to coincide with the ones being
broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a pointless exercise.

From what I hear, the pits probably have more interesting things in them
than the track till the last six laps or so.

Brian

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"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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"Rick" wrote in message
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Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to
receive 19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five,
something I used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad
breaks, until for some reason they increasingly started to coincide with
the ones being broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a pointless
exercise.

We used to do this, but it won't be HD - perhaps Bernie Ecclestone can be
persuaded to ensure that F1 is available from some other EU satellite
broadcaster in HD and using a CI CAM? I for one am NOT paying $ky for it,
although for a premium service (including a choice of cuts to the pits,
leader etc.) I would pay FIA or someone else.

unless you are a friend of mine who thinks the same apart from free daily
women's beach volleyball.

Brian

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"Silk" wrote in message
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On 30/07/2011 15:06, Rick wrote:
Now that fifty per cent of F1 races will be going to Sky TV in 2012, a
simple alternative will be to watch it from the reasonably easy to
receive 19.2°E on RTL, whilst listening to the commentary on radio five,
something I used to do when F1 was transmitted by ITV, during the ad
breaks, until for some reason they increasingly started to coincide with
the ones being broadcast on RTL and eventually turned it into a
pointless exercise.

All sport should be on pay TV.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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From what I hear, the pits probably have more interesting things in them
than the track till the last six laps or so.

This season has been slightly more entertaining than some years past.

On 30/07/2011 19:30, Brian Gaff wrote:
unless you are a friend of mine who thinks the same apart from free daily
women's beach volleyball.

I'm just sick to death of all the moaning sports fans. The alternative
to paying extra for watching it on the telly is to go to the event and
pay at the gate. Someone has to foot the bill for all the over-paid
sports people - I don't see why it should be everyone else.