<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BarryMachine @ May 25 2009, 02:50 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Do Dorna say they will broadcast it free?
Can't see why they would do that? It must cost a pretty penny to set up to distribute as they do.
Free to air channels buy the rights to broadcast ( eg. BBC and TEN ) so to get their value from the product they then present it to us in a way they can make a profit from. Thats why most businesses and endeavours are run. So if they have to compete with other forms of media presenting it for free, then they would lose customers and would have to pull out of presenting Mgp.
Free to air is why we get it free, whether government financed ( eg. BBC .... comes out of everyone in the UK's pocket ) or ( eg. TEN Australia ..... financed by ads. )
Do you really believe Dorna do it for nothing? or their paying customers do it out of having "a big heart"?
Pinky is right ..... Rog, ..... someone pays for it ..... in the end its either, eg. everyone in the UK, or the viewer who buys the goods that the commercial channels advertise.
Edit: Do you get it free from the BBC Rog. ? ie. do you not pay any tax?
im not saying dorna are doing it for free, im saying we get it for free on tv. well not totally free as we have to buy a tv licence that pays for bbc as you say but we have to pay that regardless. If it were on eurosport we have to pay extra for that and normally that means buying a tv package from company's like sky at a significant cost per month. How much dorna get from the bbc for tv rights i have know idea but when it switched from eurosport to bbc ezy said it was to bring motogp to the masses for free meaning they didnt have to buy tv packages.
To clarify about british TV licences. We have to buy a licence every year. We have to buy this because we own a tv set even it we are not going to watch bbc channels. The bbc get this money. If we pay for sat tv from sky or cable from virgin media we still need a tv licence because we still own a tv set, but now we pay sky or virgin for there channels.
You say pinky is right , all pinky said was
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE <div class='quotemain'>ummm and who pays for everything? god?
So he wasn't right, he just missed my point. never did i suggest dorna did anything for free in my posts !