Formula one

On Saturday, July 30th, 2011 at 19:25:45h +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Don't rtl own part of Sky anyway?

No.

"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.

I don't have a problem with sports going to pay TV provided that

a) it is FTA

b) there are sensible micro payments for individual sports/events

I do have a problem with it going to a subscription service where you have
to pay extra (and/or install extra kit) to even think about receiving it and
where the only way of getting it is as part of a bundled subscription with
15 other sports that you may have no interest in.

tim

Even so I suspect that it would be technically near nigh impossible to
prevent people in the UK from watching it free to air from Astra with the
present setup.

"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
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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.

tim.... wrote:

I don't have a problem with sports going to pay TV provided that

a) it is FTA

Why would a pay TV service be FTA?

b) there are sensible micro payments for individual sports/events

Exactly the opposite mechanism from the one we're offered.

On 30/07/2011 23:05, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:31:40 +0100, wrote:

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.

Someone foots the bill for all the overpaid untalented "celebrities"
who appear on TV. At least sports people have skills.

You could buy 10 very good and telented celebrities for the price of one
talented in a narrow field but a moron in every other respect Wayne Rooney.

The problem with sport, is there's just so much of it these days. With
multi-channel TV there's simply no need to infest every channel with it
any more.

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Silk wrote:
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.

The same in principle would apply to The Proms?

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On 30/07/2011 23:55, tim.... wrote:

I do have a problem with it going to a subscription service where you have
to pay extra (and/or install extra kit) to even think about receiving it and
where the only way of getting it is as part of a bundled subscription with
15 other sports that you may have no interest in.

Better than the rest of us having to pay for all sport on FTA TV via the
BBC licence fee. Paying a subscription is still cheaper than actually
going to the event.

Well they used to.. I wonder who does actually own Sky these days, one might
be forgiven for thinking its a chain of fast food outlets... Brian

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Saturday, July 30th, 2011 at 19:25:45h +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Don't rtl own part of Sky anyway?

No.

"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.

why do people watch this kind of racing?

Geoff Pearson wrote:

"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.

why do people watch this kind of racing?

Why do people waste time with pointless postings?

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