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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
Except for Italy and, oddly enough, Canada, I've never lived in a country (including the UK) where F1 was regularly broadcast live and wasn't 'bumped' by some sort of ball/kick game or Z-list celebrity challenge.
In point of fact, the fan-base here is pretty small compared to other sports so I think we're lucky it gets broadcast at all.  |
I feel for you guys and know what it's like. For the last few years the BBC has showed every race live and had a cracking broadcast, we certainly never got that in Oz when I was watching it. But this year during the break Ecclestone decided his money grubbing little paws could do with some more so they sold the rights to Sky. So now we are left with BBC only showing a handful of races live per year, and when they do show the replay later on it's only an extended highlights package.
It's a real shame as the BBC channels are the only English stations we get apart from the discovery type channels. Thankfully the French and Belgian channels do show the races live and in HD though but it's not the same.