Breaking news: From next year BBC to show Formula 1

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Hey guys I just saw this on the B.B.C. breakfast show news, the B.B.C. has won a half decade long deal to the rights of Formula 1! It will be the first time it has been shown on B.B.C. since 1996!
 
this is just too sweet :)

I saw the update a couple of minutes ago and to finally have it back on the BBC is great.

No more advert breaks every 10 minutes!
 
Woohoo. Now hopefully they'll get rid of James Allen just to put the icing on the cake.
 
If they put this on BBC world, it would be great news for Australian fans who would hopefully be able to watch it live. Here's hoping.:)
 
BBC fuck yeah!

no ads FTW
 
^^ Doubt very much that will happen - BBC would have the rights for the British broadcast only. Broadcasters in other countries have to seperately buy the rights to telecast the races in their country.

There has been rumours of Ten showing the races live on their HD channel, but no sign of that happening so far.
 
Peter3hg said:
Woohoo. Now hopefully they'll get rid of James Allen just to put the icing on the cake.
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...which is what a fair few of the Five Live phone-in comments have been saying. It was barely five minutes into the phone-in when the first of such comments came ("Keep Martin Brundle, get rid of James Allen and Steve Rider!") - and those five minutes were taken up with Murray Walker and Damon Hill airing their views first. A further comment was that JA's replacement should be Ben Edwards - I'm sure there were some here who handed his name around...

I notice itv-f1.com has very little to say about this.
 
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^^ Doubt very much that will happen - BBC would have the rights for the British broadcast only. Broadcasters in other countries have to seperately buy the rights to telecast the races in their country.

There has been rumours of Ten showing the races live on their HD channel, but no sign of that happening so far.
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I agree with you but i still will be hoping.
 
Bring back The Chain for the intro, I say! And keep Brundle but get rid of Allen, Blundell and Ryder.

A Maurice Hamilton-Martin Brundle pairing would be interesting.
 
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Oh awesome, no ads! hopefully they'll get some decent people to do commentary

wait

.....May? Hammond? Clarkson? Perfect! Hammond can run around the pits interviewing Mark Webber after he retires, and Clarkson and May can be in the box covering the race. How hard can it be?
 
Very very good news.

No more ads!
And :
BRING BACK THE CHAIN!!!
 
So what, ITV just walk away from it at a time when Lewis Hamilton rises into significance as one of the best young, marketable British superstars? Surely it isnt as straight forward as that...
 
Red_Bull said:
So what, ITV just walk away from it at a time when Lewis Hamilton rises into significance as one of the best young, marketable British superstars? Surely it isnt as straight forward as that...
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Presumably Bernie wanted ITV to bend over and say "Ahhh".
Whereas ITV has a real, honest-to-god budget,
the BBC is like socialism for who chanted "better red than dead."
Result.

I suppose it's a good use of taxpayer money in this case, depending on how much they actually spent.
 
fbc said:
^^ Doubt very much that will happen - BBC would have the rights for the British broadcast only. Broadcasters in other countries have to seperately buy the rights to telecast the races in their country.

There has been rumours of Ten showing the races live on their HD channel, but no sign of that happening so far.
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but we get BBC 1&2 for free in the netherlands...would i be able to watch it ads-free too? or will it be blocked?

because we got the f*ck ass RTL7 to broadcast it...
would be great if every body watches bbc over here and rtl7 has paid so much for the rights and dont get any watchers :lol:
 
You get BBC in the Netherlands because of a European law that lets EU broadcasters re-broadcast television channels from another country over 'cable' I don't think the BBC actually gets any money from BBC One and Two (although they do get money from BBC Prime and BBC World).

So, although you get BBC One and Two you're not actually being served by the BBC but by your cable company who are replaying the channels.

At least thats how I had it explained to me.
 
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