AngryAnt
Well-Known Member
For those that don't know yet, the BBC have 'struck a deal with sky'. Basically the deal means the BBC will show (after this season) 10 races a year with highlights of the other 10 races. Sky on the other hand will show not only the other 10 races BUT the 10 races the BBC will show AT THE SAME TIME.
You can read about it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2011/07/f1_… and take a look at the comments. They've already closed this blog only two days after opening it and it had over 6,000 comments with only one of them being a very tongue in cheek praise.
They are now also trying to hide any mention of the blog along with other blogs asking to "stay on topic" or "questions about the 2011 season" etc yet every F1 blog on the bbc website (and others) has been overwhelmed by angry fans.
Not sure if anyone noticed but after quali on Saturday they also didn't mention anything about F1 the whole night, including the results of quali even though two brits were second and third. Whole thing is corrupt, everything RM touches is corrupt. He'd never pass a fit and proper persons test if he was running a club (actually, he probably would knowing the FA).
I know this is mostly a footy forum but i know there are a few F1 fans, if you haven't already get yourself over to http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/keepf1onthebbc and sign it! Even if you dislike F1 and just want to put a bee in rupert murdoch's bonnet (lets be honest, everyone wants to).
Its ironic that in this deal that the bbc has struck, after everything they've done for Formula One over the years, could be the first nail in the coffin for it in the UK.
You can read about it here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2011/07/f1_… and take a look at the comments. They've already closed this blog only two days after opening it and it had over 6,000 comments with only one of them being a very tongue in cheek praise.
They are now also trying to hide any mention of the blog along with other blogs asking to "stay on topic" or "questions about the 2011 season" etc yet every F1 blog on the bbc website (and others) has been overwhelmed by angry fans.
Not sure if anyone noticed but after quali on Saturday they also didn't mention anything about F1 the whole night, including the results of quali even though two brits were second and third. Whole thing is corrupt, everything RM touches is corrupt. He'd never pass a fit and proper persons test if he was running a club (actually, he probably would knowing the FA).
I know this is mostly a footy forum but i know there are a few F1 fans, if you haven't already get yourself over to http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/keepf1onthebbc and sign it! Even if you dislike F1 and just want to put a bee in rupert murdoch's bonnet (lets be honest, everyone wants to).
Its ironic that in this deal that the bbc has struck, after everything they've done for Formula One over the years, could be the first nail in the coffin for it in the UK.