Sky list... Idiots hired:Check! Screwed Freeview viewers:Check! McLaren bias:Check! Intro ****ed up:Check! Ripped off BBC videos:Check! Yup that's believing in better...
Hi all. Don't know if this has already been posted, but living in denmark but always watching F1 in english as the danish coverage is sh*t I was gutted when it went to Sky as you can't normally find good streams. I have now found this, which I'm sure can be usefull to others so thought I'd share. http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/32669/1/sky-sports-f1-channel-launch-live-stream-online.html Good season boys and girls.
Wow that title music is awful. I'd love to know how many die-hard F1 fans class themselves as fans of generic pop, compared to those who like Fleetwood Mac. I just had to go and listen to The Chain to get over that.
Hi. Welcome to the forum and thanks for your links. We do have a Sky thread where you can post them. EDIT: Woah! Wormhole.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mo...-F1-theme-first-featured-in-BBC-coverage.html Anything else you want to steal from the BBC sky?
Dreary as it is, I could see why it might be chosen as a season closing track. It just doesn't make sense as a show opener. It hardly pumps you up. The ITV themes were better than this dirge. It'll be interesting to see what the reaction is to this much vaunted channel launch show tonight. Who's gone across, incidentally? I know of Brundle, Kravitz, Davidson, Croft and Pinkham. Any others defected? a
The channel is up and running. Some short interviews, quick biographies, factory shots of cars being built. Virgin box is set to switch over to the main programme at 8pm
Jake Humpreys is still there due to him signing his life away to the bbc a long time ago. Eddie will be there as Sky probably wouldn't put up with him and DC will still be co-commentator with the newly appointed Ben Edwards (the only good thing to have come from all this). Addendum - I don't know whether Jake, Eddie or DC were approached by Sky or not but I feel that without Martin Brundle or Ted Kravitz, the beeb's coverage will definitely suffer.
I haven't seen it yet but I've heard the track they're using. Anyone seen any of it yet? I caught about the last twenty seconds of an interview with Mike Gascoyne. Then they stuck a montage in which was almost entirely made up of clips from Singapore.
Brundle will be a big loss... but Edwards is a proven commentator and DC is a good analyst. As for Kravitz, a lot depends on Gary Anderson's voice, but technically speaking I've been very impressed with him so far, so I have no fears there!
I love Anderson's written stuff for Autosport, but he's no Ted Kravitz as a reporter. There was a video of him on the BBC website talking about the updated Red Bull, but I can't find it because their redesigned site is ****ing impossible to navigate. Edit: Just managed to find it through Google: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/17244928
The season preview show is on now. It's not terrible but, like football cf. BBC, it's quite vacuous. They've managed to convince Damon Hill and Martin Brundle to leave their personalities at the door when they came in and they've now got Steve Ryder on being Steve Ryder. They're also incorporating all the odds and sods they've been showing all day. They had some Kay Burley type tart interviewing Button, but at least they managed not to spell his forename 'Jesnson' like the One Show did. This woman talking to Davidson is awful. I get the impression she's incapable of going off-script but I don't know who she is so that might be unfair. It's very flat and very much aimed at new viewers who don't know much but the BBC did a fair bit of that, too.
That sounds awful. The Steve Ryder bit sounds like the most boring thing in TV history. Disappointing. I wasn't too bothered about Sky getting the coverage because I thought they'd at least make an excellent job of the coverage. Appears not. I was worried this might be the case when I saw all the Singapore shots in the montage. Ok the cars look good under lights, but personally Spa and Silverstone and Interlagos would be the type of races that would get my pulse racing.
I've enjoyed it so far. Lots of technical info, some good interviews and the gadgets they are using to help viewers understand the technology in F1 is brilliant. BBC will have a big job on it's hand to compete with this.
