A comment poster on Andrew Benson's BBC blog says Autosport is reporting that the BBC plan to show full race re-runs on the red button next year, 3 hours after the event and concurrent with the highlights show on the main channel. Apparently, this is printed in the current issue of the magazine, although I can find nothing on their website; neither is there anything on the BBC website. For these reasons, I DON'T WANT TO PRESUME THIS TO BE FACT but I thought it was worth letting you know; and perhaps someone else here has more information they can add or has a copy of the magazine in question and can confirm this.
Well if they did that and put it on BBc iplayer as well, (as I have iplayer connected to my tv via the router and freesat box because my red button signal is ****) I could live with keeping my ears closed, not reading any forums and living in a cupboard for 3 hours a fortnight. Edit Or would that be 5 hours, thanks for **** all beeb
If the BBC did that I wouldn't even have to find the race live on the internet. Fingers crossed it's true. Death to Sky!
Even if the BBC did that I would still watch it on a stream on the internet because a) I like to follow the live timing, and b) because BBC pissed me off royally how they blocked channel 4's bid to show the entire season on free to view.
I agree, even if this is true, they're crumbs being offered but they'd be a slight improvement on butchered best bits, sorry highlights, only. Still, I can't find any confirmation of it myself so it may not be true.
What I heard was they didn't block it, just that the joint deal offered more money. And you know how Bernie is with money.
Sky are idiots. I'll just find a stream, seriously this takeover bid doesn't concern anyone who's tech savvy.
True but you will have to turn the sound down and listen to 5 live commentary (if they are commentating on events that are not being shown live on bbc) and you will loose the sound of the cars + unless you have your computer connected to your telly and live alone you will be hunched over a desk, not the best solution to the problem.
Well we don't know that this is true yet anyway and it's still far from an ideal solution, just a not-quite-as-bad-as-before compromise. Since the announcement of this supposedly "great deal for the fans" and all that I've subsequently learned about the BBC and its attitude to the public, I wouldn't trust them at all. The whole thing could just be a red herring. They are certainly mightily pissed off at the amount of negative reaction, complaints, blogs bombarded with protest etc. and are treating fans who do this as a nuisance and have started threatening to take action against the accounts of those who persist! Wouldn't it just have been easier to answer their critics rather than ignore and censor them? Do feel free to add your two pence worth on Benson's latest blog
