Eurosport - Live!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Sep 15 2008, 10:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Then prepare yourself for a year of condensed highlights where the flyaways are concerned courtesy of Auntie, unless you get up in the middle of the night and watch it on BBCi - and as you pointed out, the new audience that Dorna seeks to attract may not have the necessary equipment to do that.I will be getting up, & I will be watching 800's on BBC1 it seems.

MOTEGI
Sunday 28 September

125cc & 250cc races
0245-0515, BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website

Race live
0545-0700, BBC ONE and BBC Sport website


PHILLIP ISLAND
Sunday 5 October

125cc & 250cc races
0245-0515, BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website

Race live
0545-0700, BBC ONE and BBC Sport website


SEPANG
Sunday 19 October

125cc & 250cc races
0515-0745 , BBC Red Button and BBC Sport website

Race live
0815-0930, BBC ONE and BBC Sport website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...kes/4805050.stm

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Sep 15 2008, 10:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I will be getting up.
Then I commend you for your dedication and pity your chronic insomnia. But like I say, what if you're not online and you don't have the option of the 'red button' - its not 2012 yet, and these are the fans that Dorna are supposedly trying to attract. Or what if like me - of questionable dedication, you were content to Sky Plus everything and watch it the next day - you can't anymore.

Christ, is that the time? -way past my bedtime.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Sep 15 2008, 10:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Why can't you grasp that terrestrial broadcasters have a bigger audience? They have the biggest audience share, because people (usually) don't have to pay for it or have special equipment. It just sounds like sour grapes on your part now.
No soure grapes, well that too, but what I dont get is what increase of viewers are you expecting for MotoGP when the major markets allready have one or more terrestrial broadcasters sending today?
How can they hope to gain any others than those watching Eurosport today? It's allready there, just a bad version of what we got on Eurosport.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Sep 15 2008, 11:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>No soure grapes, well that too, but what I dont get is what increase of viewers are you expecting for MotoGP when the major markets allready have one or more terrestrial broadcasters sending today?
How can they hope to gain any others than those watching Eurosport today? It's allready there, just a bad version of what we got on Eurosport.

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if the BBC keep putting the races on interactive, instead of the mainstream programming, then millions of primetime viewers will not bother or miss it altogether. those are the new viewers that dorna wants and BBc will not capture. they have to air it live and during peak times or there will be no appreciable increase in viewing numbers, only an increase in irate bike fans who want eurosport back!

wonder if the beeb have any plans for 09 to replay the races over the following week or so like Eurosport
as we know Eurosport repeat the races a good view times the week after the live race this has always been handy to watch again record it etc it helps peeps out that are out or at work at the time of the live race and so on.
if its on bbc Iplayer its covered by DRM.which may not be the best option

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Babelfish @ Sep 15 2008, 11:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>No soure grapes, well that too, but what I dont get is what increase of viewers are you expecting for MotoGP when the major markets allready have one or more terrestrial broadcasters sending today?
How can they hope to gain any others than those watching Eurosport today? It's allready there, just a bad version of what we got on Eurosport.Of course we have to wait for the coverage, & we'll probably never know fabout quality from certain countries. However the BBC (& I can only really take that as a model right now) will have F1, & will use it to promote Moto GP. I forget how large the audience for F1 in the UK is, but it's pretty damn large right now. That equals a lot of kids, alot of people, that just won't have seen bikes, so if we can get racing back into Moto it's going to make F1 look pale. That's exactly how I ended up here, looking for a fix of motor racing, I flicked on BBC2 & there were the bikes, it didn't hurt that it was Jerez 2005 I suppose.

So if Dorna can get the right stations to pick it up, the ones with that potential there should be no looking back. It's also up to Dorna to offer the a good contract & good options for coverage, ones that fit the schedules.

Then again the BBC have already ...... up over the last 8 years. We all know how Rossi is adored in the UK, & they have never once tried to capitalise on that.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BigAl @ Sep 16 2008, 07:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>^+1

if the BBC keep putting the races on interactive, instead of the mainstream programming, then millions of primetime viewers will not bother or miss it altogether. those are the new viewers that dorna wants and BBc will not capture. they have to air it live and during peak times or there will be no appreciable increase in viewing numbers, only an increase in irate bike fans who want eurosport back!Only 2 races have been live on interactive this year, Laguna (actually that may have been on BBC2, I can't recall, let's say it wasn't for arguments sake) & Indy, & Qatar was on BBC3. I think that's pretty healthy for mainstream coverage. 3 out of 18, & all 18 available live in some form.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Sep 16 2008, 08:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>& all 18 available live in some form.
I can't wait

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Sep 15 2008, 10:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Then I commend you for your dedication and pity your chronic insomnia. But like I say, what if you're not online and you don't have the option of the 'red button' - its not 2012 yet, and these are the fans that Dorna are supposedly trying to attract. Or what if like me - of questionable dedication, you were content to Sky Plus everything and watch it the next day - you can't anymore.There's nothing quite like drinkin' a nastro azzuro at 4am on a Sunday morning.

Dorna, being the business that it is, is thinking long term. I don't think there's a lot of the country that doesn't have some form of reception now. The beeb also currently puts out the strongest signal to date. A digi box is what £20?, I know people on the dole that have digi boxes.

No Sky plus? get ye olde video recorder, you won't be able to watch another digi channel, but you'll be able to see the race

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Sep 16 2008, 08:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I can't waitWell there's only 4 left now.