ITV

How about bringing a bit of breadth and diversity to your contributions on this forum much in the same way that the BBC enhances your life ?

It would make for a refreshing change from the stale Hudson / Levy swoonarama marathon, and Formula 1 diatribe. Your contributions need freshening up, so think on.

Move along, nothing to see here.

Katherine, you really do yourself no favours when you take that absurd attitude.

If broadcast by Sky, definitely not. F1 Digital Plus provided superior coverage. Everything including practice sessions broadcast live, no ads, post-qualifying and post-race press conferences shown IN FULL, extended comment at the end of races, many more driver/team interviews, lengthy and interesting articles and pundit opinion, a choice of camera angle, pitlane information, live timing boards, access to information shown to team bosses etc... etc... FAR better than anything ITV have done with the sport or ever will do.

This is laughable, "broadcasting loyalties" ? Are the BBC doing nectar points or something ?

If ITV is TV for the council house, what is Five or Sky One? TV for the homeless or TV for prisoners?!

Obviously Katherine must have more money than sense! Why pay £12.99 per month just to watch another channel's coverage of a 'free' event just because you have grievences with the broadcaster!

Fair enough with F1 Digital Plus, you pay for it (alot IIRC) and you got a sh*t load of services. ITV is only doing what has been done since the start of time, just covering the F1, in the same way that the BBC did, but with adverts, as that is how ITV makes money, though it's irritating, there's no other way.

Frankly I would rather see ITV do the F1, as it means that the BBC doesn't have to waste millions of pounds of the licence fee on something that only happens every other week for 9 months of the year.

If more people watched the coverage, then ITV would probably improve it, but they don't, it isn't widely watched. (sadly)

yes katherine - how on earth did you afford it.

I didn't - Dad and I went halves on each payment. I wasn't getting enough information or quality of enjoyment from ITV as it was so restricted by commercial and scheduling constraints. I was guaranteed to show EVERYTHING live, not tape-delayed (to satisfy Corrie fans) or simply not broadcast. It clearly demonstrated slipshod and patchy commitment to coverage when tape-delaying came into action on race weekends.

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Did you ever see the BBC coverage, the ITV product is vastly superior ? As for ratings, each race averages 3m viewers in what has been a lull period for the sport what with the Schumacher domination. 3m is good ratings for that timeslot on a Sunday afternoon. Add to that it pulls in a lot of the highly desired young male viewers.

That's a shame really Katherine. You missed an opportunity to be part of a local new package being put together. A bit more experience for your career plan. Your 'loyalty' should come first to yourself, not to the BBC or indeed any other single company.

I understand that your actions probably served to reafirm in a personal way your appreciation of a programme that figures so strongly in your routine.

To others (and that includes prospective employers), it may read as a rigid and inflexible attitude.

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And Katherine's only argument is that the show isn't 6 hours long with no adverts, and that YTV took an ad break in the middle of something important about 5 years ago.

Oh and please change that signature!