- 25 Aug 11, 22:15#271252
Reel your head back in laddie!
Comparing the BBC coverage to ITV's is not exactly a high accolade as you couldn't get much worse than ITV's coverage. I do not have unreachable standard, I just want decent coverage that I enjoy. What we are discussing cannot come down to hard facts on either side, it is all just personal choice - you like the BBC coverage, I don't, simple as that. The pictures are nice, but I don't think they are unique to the BBC. To be honest, I don't care which channel F1 is aired on, as long as I can watch it and it is not riddled with adverts during the race.
So what if they have a website? ITV have a website which covers several sports, including F1 so saying that the BBC have an F1 section to their website is meaningless, especially as it is quite limited. Go to the likes of Autosport or Total F1 and you get a much wider range of reports. They may have 7 F1 pundits, but quantity does not mean quality. The 2 in the pitlane are fine, but the only other one I would bother with is David Coulthard. The other 3 are just terrible, especially the lanky tit and the Irish loudmouthed arse faced moron (let's face it, if he was on a forum we would call himk a troll - he's only there to say controversial things).
And whoopdedooo, they dedicate 3 hours everyother weekend to F1. That's fine as long as it is 3 hours of entertainment, but I find watching the BBC 1 coverage painful, compared to the alternative commentary available.
I'm not taking any moral high ground or anything like that. I just plain can't stand Brundle shouting over everything Coulthard says and, at times, not letting hm get a word in. The Radio 5 commentary is far more balanced and much more in a similar style of that of Murray Walker. I'm not outsmarting anyone, I just prefer my F1 in a different way to some, I still have to pay my TV License, I just have no interest in most of the post-race twaddle and can easily find the stuff I'm interested in later that night on-line.
But here's the clincher, the main point for you to take from this evening's seminar: It all comes down to personal choice. You like the BBC 1 coverage, I don't. Simple as that. Maybe a lot of this is that I can remember the good old days of Murray Walker and Jonathan Plamer, before the days of the BBC saturating the F1 coverage with more pundits than you can shake a stick at!
Comparing the BBC coverage to ITV's is not exactly a high accolade as you couldn't get much worse than ITV's coverage. I do not have unreachable standard, I just want decent coverage that I enjoy. What we are discussing cannot come down to hard facts on either side, it is all just personal choice - you like the BBC coverage, I don't, simple as that. The pictures are nice, but I don't think they are unique to the BBC. To be honest, I don't care which channel F1 is aired on, as long as I can watch it and it is not riddled with adverts during the race.
So what if they have a website? ITV have a website which covers several sports, including F1 so saying that the BBC have an F1 section to their website is meaningless, especially as it is quite limited. Go to the likes of Autosport or Total F1 and you get a much wider range of reports. They may have 7 F1 pundits, but quantity does not mean quality. The 2 in the pitlane are fine, but the only other one I would bother with is David Coulthard. The other 3 are just terrible, especially the lanky tit and the Irish loudmouthed arse faced moron (let's face it, if he was on a forum we would call himk a troll - he's only there to say controversial things).
And whoopdedooo, they dedicate 3 hours everyother weekend to F1. That's fine as long as it is 3 hours of entertainment, but I find watching the BBC 1 coverage painful, compared to the alternative commentary available.
I'm not taking any moral high ground or anything like that. I just plain can't stand Brundle shouting over everything Coulthard says and, at times, not letting hm get a word in. The Radio 5 commentary is far more balanced and much more in a similar style of that of Murray Walker. I'm not outsmarting anyone, I just prefer my F1 in a different way to some, I still have to pay my TV License, I just have no interest in most of the post-race twaddle and can easily find the stuff I'm interested in later that night on-line.
But here's the clincher, the main point for you to take from this evening's seminar: It all comes down to personal choice. You like the BBC 1 coverage, I don't. Simple as that. Maybe a lot of this is that I can remember the good old days of Murray Walker and Jonathan Plamer, before the days of the BBC saturating the F1 coverage with more pundits than you can shake a stick at!
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