F1 going pay TV only for live races from 2019

[VapingBad]

I ain't paying

www.thecheckeredflag.co.uk/2016/03/free-air-live-formula-1-disappear-uk-tv-2019/



UPDATE
It is live races (excluding the British GP) that Sky have bought and highlights may still show free to air.
www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123442/c4-to-mull-over-f1-options-from-2019

[OliverB]

Amazon Fire TV stick with Kodi = £35.

[joeten]

MXIII would also do the same, with Ares wizard installed on Kodi makes things very easy.

[VapingBad]

But it is killing the sport by devaluing the car sponsorship as they already did getting into bed with Sky the teams are more and more beholden the Bernie. He shafted the circuits years ago by withholding their TV rights so you cannot hold a GP and make any money, this is just doing it to the teams and they take it It is apparently in the concord Agreement that the sport remain free to air in all major territories, FFS 90% of F1 is British.

[dagl]

Get y'self a droid box! Then get spikey to nip round and sort it out....

[joeten]

It's not hard to install Ares on Kodi seo-michael.co.uk/tutorial-how-to-install-ares-wizard-kodi/ once installed you can start the Ares wizard then go to browse builds and pick a build Apollo 6 or 7 is pretty good you click on apollo then choose either and in the column on the right click on install then wait until it finishes and restart Kodi, you can of course customise it further from settings but that is another lesson for another day.

[VapingBad]

Thanks, but that's not the point for me at all and it is still 3 years away still.

It is like it is the final nail in the coffin or even steak through the heart for the sport. Look at those massive hospitality centres all the teams drag around the world to entertain sponsors while the value of that sponsorship is being seriously eroded going to extremely overpriced cable TV and therefore the teams independence is being seriously eroded. Far too much of that TV money will go to CVC partners who don't reinvest in the sport, at least the car sponsorship money the teams get goes into racing. Money and power are all Bernie and CVC care about, but now the contracts are signed the damage will be done even after they both exit.

[joeten]

Sadly the same can be said for many of the sports shown on TV.

[Bobsbeer]

I certainly won't be paying. Bad enough that BBC dropped half of it, but I can understand why. It's been shit lately anyway. Boring boring boring.

[VapingBad]

The BBC did a better job than Sky anyway, it was one of Benie's excuses that Sky were doing the best job, but I guess he doesn't watch it on TV.

[MRS SLEEPY]

I don't get chance to catch it live at most times. I still think we will be able to see most of it on free view. Just don't look on line for the results. I hope.

[mart166]

We just lost the TV coverage for our races this year, reason being "to expensive for the organisers", FFS we are providing the entertainment at great costs for them to fill up their channels, they should be paying us.


MP

[Deleted]

The greed makes me sick & disgustingly, they have already pushed live viewing out of the reach of many fans that have to be happy with catch it when you can terrestrial coverage.

So Too many sports going the same way & all for greed.

[phtumshk]

I feel your pain.
I cried for a week when motoGP went to BT.

[blakey]

I enjoy my F1
But purely out of principle I'll be fu*ked if I'm buying a whole sports package just to watch it
Come 2019, F1 will be out of my life