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Not happy that you have to pay to watch F1 in Australia?
Neither am I!
Ever since I was a child, I have watched the F1 with my Dad. My number one passion bar none! I don't have Foxtel, don't see the need for it. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay 60 bucks a month just to watch the Formula One.
Get the F1 back on Freeview.
What was the point in creating the Freeview in the first place anyway. In fact, One was originally put up as a sports dedicated channel in the first place, what happened to that?!?
In my opinion, taking away more free-to-air content is just going to drive more Australians to downloading.
Fix it!!
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Keep F1 'free to air', on the BBC and out of the hands of 'Sky'.
Keep Formula 1 Free to view and on the BBC
Updates
April 12, 2015
I honestly cannot believe how many people are just as fed up with these ridiculous paywalls as I am even though I really should have known that I was not the only one mourning the days of watching practice rounds over breakfast for free. Seeing this momentum honestly makes me feel like we might actually have a shot at getting the sport back on proper TV where it belongs instead of locking it behind some expensive subscription I refuse to buy.
17 Comments
To make such a change to viewing so close to the start of a season, also after the marketing campaign since last year that F1 would be on free to air for all of 2015 is disrespectful to sincere fans unable to budget for pay TV on such short notice.
Ever since I was a kid, 35+ years ago, F1 has been free to air and an iconic sport to support. I can't believe it is from lack of 'supply' that it can't be free to air. This is an outrageous development in big business squeezing out commercial fta stations. Murdoch used his stake in TEN to hand over rights - but this was not given to tender to other stations first. Now the majority of fans will miss out!
It's disgusting, ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that companies are trying to CONTROL people by seeing if they can sucker people into paying to watch the Grand Prix!!! Foxtel & channel 10 should be ashamed of themselves!!!!!!!!!! People struggling just to afford food and t.v. companies trying to get us to live on bread & water just to afford Foxtel. Well guess what?!?!? Foxtel can go jumped a bridge!!! I hope one day they NEVER have customers and the company shuts down!!!!!!! Unfortunately it's wishful thinking!! Goodbye Grand Prix and Goodbye V8 races!! Very disappointing, but we will no longer support any racing aired on Foxtel!!!!!!!
TEN Home of motorsport - BULLSHIT!
Why cant the races not broadcast live be replayed later in the week
Stop screwing the fans! Bring it back to free-to-air TV!!
Greedy people are dumb!
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Final supporters
Not happy that you have to pay to watch F1 in Australia?
Neither am I!
Ever since I was a child, I have watched the F1 with my Dad. My number one passion bar none! I don't have Foxtel, don't see the need for it. And I'll be damned if I'm going to pay 60 bucks a month just to watch the Formula One.
Get the F1 back on Freeview.
What was the point in creating the Freeview in the first place anyway. In fact, One was originally put up as a sports dedicated channel in the first place, what happened to that?!?
In my opinion, taking away more free-to-air content is just going to drive more Australians to downloading.
Fix it!!
Updates
April 12, 2015
I honestly cannot believe how many people are just as fed up with these ridiculous paywalls as I am even though I really should have known that I was not the only one mourning the days of watching practice rounds over breakfast for free. Seeing this momentum honestly makes me feel like we might actually have a shot at getting the sport back on proper TV where it belongs instead of locking it behind some expensive subscription I refuse to buy.
17 Comments
The solution is to leave the free-to-air as it was last year - and those who are able/prepared to pay for Foxtel can get the additional pre/post race coverage. (I'd love to see that coverage, but not for $50/month)
To make such a change to viewing so close to the start of a season, also after the marketing campaign since last year that F1 would be on free to air for all of 2015 is disrespectful to sincere fans unable to budget for pay TV on such short notice.
Ever since I was a kid, 35+ years ago, F1 has been free to air and an iconic sport to support. I can't believe it is from lack of 'supply' that it can't be free to air. This is an outrageous development in big business squeezing out commercial fta stations. Murdoch used his stake in TEN to hand over rights - but this was not given to tender to other stations first. Now the majority of fans will miss out!
It's disgusting, ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING that companies are trying to CONTROL people by seeing if they can sucker people into paying to watch the Grand Prix!!! Foxtel & channel 10 should be ashamed of themselves!!!!!!!!!! People struggling just to afford food and t.v. companies trying to get us to live on bread & water just to afford Foxtel. Well guess what?!?!? Foxtel can go jumped a bridge!!! I hope one day they NEVER have customers and the company shuts down!!!!!!! Unfortunately it's wishful thinking!! Goodbye Grand Prix and Goodbye V8 races!! Very disappointing, but we will no longer support any racing aired on Foxtel!!!!!!!
TEN Home of motorsport - BULLSHIT!
Why cant the races not broadcast live be replayed later in the week
Stop screwing the fans! Bring it back to free-to-air TV!!
Greedy people are dumb!
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The solution is to leave the free-to-air as it was last year - and those who are able/prepared to pay for Foxtel can get the additional pre/post race coverage. (I'd love to see that coverage, but not for $50/month)