• TV
  • MOVIES
  • MUSIC
  • SHOWBIZ
  • SOAPS
  • GAMING
  • TECH
  • FORUMS
  • Follow
    • Follow
    • facebook
    • twitter
    • google+
    • instagram
    • youtube
Hearst Corporation
  • TV
  • MOVIES
  • MUSIC
  • SHOWBIZ
  • SOAPS
  • GAMING
  • TECH
  • FORUMS
Forums
  • Register
  • Login
  • Forums
  • TV
  • Broadcasting
Bernie E considers free Sky F1 boxes as viewers desert F1
<<
<
7 of 7
>>
>
howard h
19-04-2013
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.”

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?
VisionMan1
19-04-2013
What have viewers in the US got against Fox News?
mikw
19-04-2013
Originally Posted by BenFranklin:
“Finland has been pay/FTA since 2007
UK has been pay/FTA since 2012
France has been pay ONLY since 2013
Holland has been pay/FTA since 2013
Italy has been pay/FTA since 2013

Off the top of my head I'm not sure what the situation is in Spain and Germany. I think Spain used to be pay tv but since Alonso came along they switched to fta and they haven't gone back. Pretty sure Germany is FTA and pay, but you get all the races live on FTA?

source:

http://www.jamesallenonf1.com/2013/0...r-f1-coverage/”

This is what i'm getting at, gradually F1 is being switched to a pay model, the market price for the rights adjusts to what broadcasters are willing to pay.

Thanfully, with compromises, we can still watch some of it live in this country. But i heard we can precariously close to losing it before the current deal was signed.
ktla5
19-04-2013
Originally Posted by howard h:
“It goes without saying that there may well be F1 fans out there who would quite happily pay a sub to watch, but will have nothing to do with the Murdoch Empire.

Can anyone else think of a country where the viewers are so divided on such an issue?!!

The F1 channel should have been independent, easily available on all media outlets and also available to sub to via the web - so that the likes of me could pay in the knowledge that Murdoch sees nothing - or very little - of my dosh.”

I suspect Mr Murdoch gets some of your dosh somewhere along the world 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
howard h
19-04-2013
Originally Posted by ktla5:
“I suspect Mr Murdoch gets some of your dosh somewhere along the world 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”

Give me a clue....
Ed-Nigma
20-04-2013
Originally Posted by howard h:
“What is the actual number tuning in to a live race on Sky?”

Last year the averaged 620,150 viewers, this year they are currently down a fraction over 16% per race on average.
derek500
20-04-2013
Originally Posted by Ed-Nigma:
“Last year the averaged 620,150 viewers, this year they are currently down a fraction over 16% per race on average.”

Are those 'insider' figures or the basic slot averages that are available to anyone from the BARB website?
swills
20-04-2013
Originally Posted by howard h:
“Give me a clue.... ”

That was interesting, so I had a look, quite a few Companies, but this a big one...

http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
<<
<
7 of 7
>>
>
VIEW DESKTOP SITE TOP

JOIN US HERE

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Hearst Corporation

Hearst Corporation

DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK

© 2015 Hearst Magazines UK is the trading name of the National Magazine Company Ltd, 72 Broadwick Street, London, W1F 9EP. Registered in England 112955. All rights reserved.

  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Complaints
  • Site Map