Will these classics be on Freeview red button?

Just as I expected, 2009 races have been thrown into the mix. Which means the BBC can show full highlights for them.

...only if its voted to have that honour.

Unbelievably, people on the blog are simply stating their favourite grand prix rather than the one they'd like to see...

*I thought the BBC had a multiple year contract (yes that was payed alot) but they were not going to drop it after 2 years?...

And will it really come to a time, where F1 isn't viewable on national TV channels.... :S because it's too expensive and ... F1 isn't for the mainstream folks intresting enough?

The BBC won't end their contract early, and I'm sure they'll keep showing it in future. They can cut costs in different areas, pay executives etc far less, pay their stars (eg Jonathan Ross) far less, and cut costs in various other areas.

Hardly a surprise is it. Shows they're not capable of reading and understanding something that I'd expect a 5 year old to understand.

Jake and co. on Twitter are already talking about 2011 - if BBC were dropping it, don't you think there would almost certainly be a silence?

That Facebook group also doesn't quote anyone at all in the BBC, so I'm not believing this at all.

Well Jonathan Ross is leaving the BBC this sumnmer so they are already making cuts in one area

Either three things will happen once the BBC's contract is up:

1. There will be no Formula One aired in Britain
2. Bernie will be forced to lower his asking price
3. A breakaway series will affectively render F1 comercially redundant

Or the obvious 4th one is that the BBC's contract is renewed.

Or the 5th one which is F1 heading off to PPV. By far the most unlikeliest.

If It's not on the BBC, I'd have to say SkySports is the most likely home. Alas.

Hope not, will be a blow for all autosport series... 'you need the keep the chery above to have a complete cake'

Hope FOTA will veto that, if it comes to that!

Peter Baert wrote=
"Bij de BBC is de beslissing al gevallen. Er moet zowat 25% gesnoeid worden, so bye bye Formula One!"

Translation=
"At the BBC the decision is already fallen. They have to cut 25% in the budget, so bye bye Formula One!"

Peter Baert is also a Eurosport commentator.

He's making an assumption. For a start off, the budget cuts and the axings of BBC 6 Music and the Asian Network have not been finalised and confirmed by BBC Trust - who is the body which must approve this.

Until BBC Trust makes the decision, no cuts are being made. As for the "they have to cut 25% in the budget, so bye bye Formula One" comment, the Strategy Report that BBC published stated that they must limit sports rights to £300 million per year. Given that some newspapers while talking about it, said something along the lines of "BBC's sports include Formula One and Wimbledon", Baert has took this as that BBC are axing Formula One.

Do you think that Jake and anyone else would be bloating on Twitter about this year's coverage, if they knew they wouldn't be on the air next year? Don't be daft.

For anyone who can't wait: http://www.huwselby.com/f1/f1vids.htm

All credit goes the site owner for gathering all the links together.

Hey I hope my rant earlier didn't catalyse this panic. Tell me the classics will be on red button freeview and all is forgiven, I take it back.

And we'll get more classic races on that site over the year coming, exciting.

I think the BBC should only include 2009 races in the Classic Grand Prix if they were interesting races or if there is not enough.

Australia, Brazil and Belgium were the best races from last year and as long as the highlights differ from those already on the BBC website, I'll be fine.

Hey, that's manna from heaven! How the hell did he/she do that? I tried for ages to navigate my way into previous classics... Site bookmarked.

The gangs all here
http://twitpic.com/16e0n5

Ha! EJ thinks Gosh Jack your grip is hard!

Not sure. They will be on Red Button... but not sure if it'll be on Freeview channel #301.

Jake has refered to "new in-race stuff online", any ideas what he is refering to?

Possibly because I don't watch the gogglebox anymore, but, I haven't seen a single advert by the BBC pimping their F1 wares this season?

Here are all the video's in one place. A big thumbs up to Huw Selby. Watching Kovalainen in some of these races, makes you realise just how useless he was.

I wonder if this Belgian chap has got confused with the plan to outsource the production from 2011 onwards?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jakehumphrey/20...art_of_the.html

Bernie would get his money going PPV, but i imagine a lot of the teams wouldn't be happy at all with the loss of exposure..

to be 'just another sport' on sky isn't really much, since Sky only focus on the Premier League

The 2009 Ashes show why sports should not go PPV.

When England won in 2005 the nation watched it all on 4 and there was a husge interest and massive celebration. In 09 only those with Sky Sports could watch it and as such it slipped out of the public's concience far more than it should have.

There have been some, though haven't seen them, although that's mainly because I only really watch the BBC for the F1 and footy highlights. You never know when the promo's will be on, so there could be 5 a day, and you may miss them all, just because of not watching at the right time.

Adverts started a few days ago that I've seen.

Very wishywashy first blog post, though it did conjure up a nice mental image of Lee McKenzie clambering out of a taxi

According to her twitter she's going to do some kind of shoot for The Sun....

Good news for Freeview guys: Apparently FP1 and FP2 from Bahrain will be on Freeview channel 301.

From Jake



Not sure if he realised that onboards were on the website last year. Maybe we have a choice of onboard for this year? Actually, I don't think Bernie is *that* kind...

And Jake is blogging on Button next week, and:

andrewbensonf1: Keep an eye out next week for BBC F1's season preview material - all on the website, starting on Monday and running through to the 1st race - about 1 hour ago via web

So it seems like the BBC F1 hype will multiply itself quite a lot by Monday.

Also worth noting that Ian Phillips has left Force India. Just mentioning it as obviously he was on the BBC coverage at times last season.

That's the director of business affairs following the technical director out the door. Quite the reshuffle at FIFI. I wonder will he be straight in somewhere else in the paddock like Key was.

well, if Ian Philipps found sponsors then he was doing a pretty shitty job recently...

practically all of FI's sponsors are VJ's companies

Just to let everbody know 5 live F1 is back next Friday at 8:30pm with a Bahrain Grand Prix preview on BBC Radio 5 Live:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rl3zz

Nowhere does he say anything about Freeview, merely saying "red button" incorporates all other digital platforms. Unless the section I've highlighted in bold comes from a different source?

Although I have noted that in the Radio Times, they say FP1 will be available to watch at 6:55AM, and if it's not on Freeview, they usually put that in brackets, but they haven't. So.. I'm hopeful. But then again March 6 week's RT was published last, what, Tuesday?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7755219.stm --> Has now updated with TV listings, although some bits are wrong.

I hope Malaysia is wrong....

That makes no sense! First of all changing channels halfway through a race can't be right, surely? If it is, what a stupid idea.

Secondly, the post race forum would be starting an hour into the coverage...


EDIT :

I just asked 5liveF1 on twitter whether FP1 would be on Freeview next friday.

I think the post race forum bit is just a typo. Not sure about the actual race though.

Yep definitely. And see my updated post, my fears are over. I can stop posting in this thread now

OK just a quick question since i'm fairly new.

FP 1,2,3 will be available through BBC Red Button but...

Quallifying and Races will also be available through the Red Button or only through BBC One/online?
How it was the year before (2009)? . From the BBC site i can't really tell.

Qualy and the race will also be on the Red Button and online...

Jason, do you know whether the red button options will be available to Freeview during Qualy and the race now that channel 302 is removed?

I much prefer the 5 live commentary to the TV guys and it'd be great to have the red button option to listen to that on Freeview.

If not, it's the old fashioned method of muting the TV and grabbing the radio!

Also, do you know that if the radio option is available on Freeview, will you be able to get rid of the football/rugby/other sports interruptions or not?

Thanks.

Ok thanks mate!

I had to ask because the BBC site is a bit confusing when it comes ti which canal shows what.
e.g BAHREIN

Friday 12 March
Practice one: 0655-0835, BBC Red Button/online
Practice two: 1100-1230, BBC Red Button/online

Saturday 13 March
Practice three: 0755-0855, BBC Red Button/online
Qualifying: 1000-1230, BBC One/online and BBC Radio 5 live/online

Sunday 14 March
Race: 1110-1415, BBC One/online and BBC Radio 5 live/online

as you can see qualifying and Race NO LIVE BBC Red Button, only BBC One and Online.

As I understand it the alternative commentary option will be available on freeview for qualy and the races.

Unfortunately we will still be going to other sports for the occasional update. The reason for this is that our company is commissioned to provide commentary for BBC Radio 5 Live, so we have to provide them with what they want. The Red Button people take a feed of the radio station output so there will be the occasional update.

Cheers,

Jason

Really pleased about the commentary options, listening to it out of sync on a separate DAB radio is a bit odd (still better than the TV guys! )

Shame about the updates, they do interfere a bit.

Thanks.