F1 on sky

Re: F1 on sky#280873

By acosmichippo - 22 Oct 11, 12:30

- 22 Oct 11, 12:30#280873

seeing as he will be commentating on Sky, I would imagine so.

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Re: F1 on sky#280875

By vlad - 22 Oct 11, 12:35

- 22 Oct 11, 12:35#280875

Oh, my mistake then, I thought he was only commentating on radio... Sorry!

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Re: F1 on sky#280890

By LRW - 22 Oct 11, 15:23

- 22 Oct 11, 15:23#280890

acosmichippo wrote:seeing as he will be commentating on Sky, I would imagine so.

Not to pick hairs, but his actual tweet was:

Answer to tweets. Yes I've had an offer from BBC and Sky. Yes I'ill be commentating F1 next year.

To me that doesn't say he has accepted both both contracts. He may only commentate for Sky or only BBC.....

Re: F1 on sky#280893

By acosmichippo - 22 Oct 11, 15:52

- 22 Oct 11, 15:52#280893

ah. mistook JulietP's post as he would be working for both of them.

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Re: F1 on sky#280897

By LRW - 22 Oct 11, 16:06

- 22 Oct 11, 16:06#280897

acosmichippo wrote:ah. mistook JulietP's post as he would be working for both of them.

He may well be, but I dont think his tweet is clear either way.

I dont know how it would work commentating for both? Would Sky and BBC broadcast same commentary on the weekends that BBC are broadcasting live? If so, would they not need to get Coulthard on board too. And then what about the presenting he does - grid-walk etc - surely he couldn't do that for both channels on a weekend BBC is also broadcasting live...?

Im interested to know whats going to happen.

For the record, Im not particularly happy sky have got it. Mainly because I think the quality of the BBC coverage is excellent. But NOTHING is going to stop me watching F1 live. I have sky, but no sky sports. So I'll just have to cut down on my drinking and fork out an extra £20 a month for the sports channels.

Re: F1 on sky#280902

By andrew - 22 Oct 11, 16:10

- 22 Oct 11, 16:10#280902

vlad wrote:Oh, my mistake then, I thought he was only commentating on radio... Sorry!

Nah, they have decent commentators on the radio.

Re: F1 on sky#281339

By Bulletproof - 25 Oct 11, 21:58

- 25 Oct 11, 21:58#281339

Have SKY changed there sports package options recently? I swear you used to be able to get 1 + 2 or something, for like £10, then all of them 1+2+3+4+5 for the £20 a month. I was planning on just going for the package that included the specific channel the F1 was going to be on (for £10ish).

If SKY have scrapped this and now give me no choice but to take the full £20 per month for all the sports channels, when I don't watch football or anything else then that is taking the piss. God I do absolutely HATE sky. £10 per race is just way way way to much.

I got to sort this RTL feed out somehow!!!!!!!!!

Re: F1 on sky#281571

By LRW - 27 Oct 11, 21:51

- 27 Oct 11, 21:51#281571

Bulletproof wrote:Have SKY changed there sports package options recently? I swear you used to be able to get 1 + 2 or something, for like £10, then all of them 1+2+3+4+5 for the £20 a month. I was planning on just going for the package that included the specific channel the F1 was going to be on (for £10ish).

If SKY have scrapped this and now give me no choice but to take the full £20 per month for all the sports channels, when I don't watch football or anything else then that is taking the piss. God I do absolutely HATE sky. £10 per race is just way way way to much.

I got to sort this RTL feed out somehow!!!!!!!!!

Ive only briefly looked into it, but from what I saw it was £20 or nowt. I would watch the Aviva Premiership as well, but thats it. Still too expensive, but i'll end up paying it - I just know i will.

Re: F1 on sky#281583

By racechick - 27 Oct 11, 22:29

- 27 Oct 11, 22:29#281583

Watch it on your computer. Ive been experimenting with it and watched the last race like that.

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Re: F1 on sky#281585

By andrew - 27 Oct 11, 22:30

- 27 Oct 11, 22:30#281585

I work Sunday afternoons so it makes no difference to me anymore.

Re: F1 on sky#281588

By LRW - 27 Oct 11, 22:34

- 27 Oct 11, 22:34#281588

racechick wrote:Watch it on your computer. Ive been experimenting with it and watched the last race like that.

That involves effort. I preffer to press 'series link' at the begining of the season, and then watch it when I can on the Sunday, without having to link the laptop to the TV, and all that

Re: F1 on sky#281596

By racechick - 27 Oct 11, 22:49

- 27 Oct 11, 22:49#281596

I watched just on the laptop. Linking's a step too far

Better than paying sky

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Re: F1 on sky#281655

By LewEngBridewell - 28 Oct 11, 10:53

- 28 Oct 11, 10:53#281655

andrew wrote:I work Sunday afternoons so it makes no difference to me anymore.

So you going to watch BBC's highlights?

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Re: F1 on sky#281662

By andrew - 28 Oct 11, 11:46

- 28 Oct 11, 11:46#281662

LewEngBridewell wrote:
andrew wrote:I work Sunday afternoons so it makes no difference to me anymore.
So you going to watch BBC's highlights?

I'll have to unless I can afford freesat by then. I'd much prefer the full race with decent commentary than the heavily edited so-called highlights with the terrible Brundle shouting over Coulthard.

Re: F1 on sky#281671

By LewEngBridewell - 28 Oct 11, 13:06

- 28 Oct 11, 13:06#281671

andrew wrote:
LewEngBridewell wrote:
andrew wrote:I work Sunday afternoons so it makes no difference to me anymore.
So you going to watch BBC's highlights?
I'll have to unless I can afford freesat by then. I'd much prefer the full race with decent commentary than the heavily edited so-called highlights with the terrible Brundle shouting over Coulthard.

It's a ballache I know. I will hopefully continue to have my Sundays as free as passible, so I'll watch all the live races I can. I'm simply going to make do with the highlights for the rest. Better than nothing.