Originally Posted by 1andrew1:
“F1 will get more money by selling it to a pay-tv broadcaster like Sky than selling it as a stand-alone channel so can't see this happening.
There are F1 fans who won't want to spend money on organisations connected to Rupert Murdochs but such people are measured in hundreds not millions so not a commercial influence.
I suspect that Berlusconi's Mediaset company in Italy and Fox News in the US have viewers more divided.”
“F1 will get more money by selling it to a pay-tv broadcaster like Sky than selling it as a stand-alone channel so can't see this happening.
There are F1 fans who won't want to spend money on organisations connected to Rupert Murdochs but such people are measured in hundreds not millions so not a commercial influence.
I suspect that Berlusconi's Mediaset company in Italy and Fox News in the US have viewers more divided.”
If Sky pay Łab for the rights, then they have to make that Łab off the subscribers. If F1 went alone, they could take the subs directly off the viewers, and if it were avaliable on more platforms which were easy to subscribe to (and unsubscribe from, as wasn't the case with Santana) they would probably get more subscribers (and make the sponsors happier) than having it as a stand-alone, add on to your normal sub channel on Sky.
What is the actual number tuning in to a live race on Sky?




as for a seperate F1 channel by someone other than Sky, yet 'pay' the sub would I think be higher than it is for many F1 fans at the moment, which is technically 'free', only new Sky subsribers from 2013 have to pay extra