I've been saying for a very long time that Jenson is neither a 'nice guy' nor a 'gentleman racer' but he puts on a good, 'matey' act most of the time. And if you don't believe me, ask Tamara Ecclestone!!! Anyway, the point was Benson: why is Button a "gentleman"? Because he's British and the British media say so.
Canadian GP viewing figures: BBC: 4.6 million Sky: 624 thousand 5.2 million in total, big increase over the 3.3 million last year.
I don't know about you guys but I wasn't too impressed by the BBC show this weekend. they made a lot of gaffes
Looks like a massive waste of money for Sky... those numbers much different when the race isn't live on BBC?
FOM themselves with different regions English, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc etc etc.... The sports channels will be dead come less than 10 years as the internet will be more than enough to handle the feed + extras. The governing directors can fund their own media crew and make even more money by cutting the likes of Sky out of the picture. Rather than pay £300 for sports we don't want to watch, we only pay £100 to get the full F1 package from their site. It will also boost ratings as the price bracket will be more widespread.
This is way more than ten years off in my opinion. The broadband coverage in this country is ****e, unless you live in a major town or city the lines are usually outdated and provided substandard speeds and intermittent connections. They never should've privatised BT. And that's in the UK. I can only imagine it's worse in more sparsely populated countries such as France, Spain and Germany. China's must be appalling. Not to mention all the other markets they want to tap into. The sport would be nowhere near as wide reaching simply because they couldn't deliver coverage to half the people who want it.
I doubt Bernie is aware of the people who live in the countryside. Anyway going to sky was 'good for fans' and that cut the live audience by 75% so I'm sure he's happy to go for pure streaming if it makes him just one penny more.
Apparently, in the developed world, it's just our broadband here that's really ****. Other countries sorted this out years ago. Not sure about China though. And I agree, they should never have privatised BT.
Actually In south Africa they raced a Pigeon with a memory stick versus sending an email from one side of the country to the other... The Pigeon won. So our broadband isn't that bad... unless all those pigeons you see in towns and cities are just networking.
