What the BBC think of MotoGP!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Oct 30 2008, 11:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Meanwhile Charlie Cox and Steve Parish are to be given their own Saturday show on Radio 2, while Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross commence commentary duties on April 12th at Losail.

i could actually live with that scenario!
they would know f&k all about the racing, but at least they would be amusing(ish) whilst doing so!
it couldnt get much worse anyways.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Pigeon @ Oct 30 2008, 09:17 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>We intend to retain our current expert MotoGP team: Suzi Perry presenting, Matt Roberts reporting, and Charlie Cox and Steve Parrish commentating. Audience appreciation figures for the coverage are exceptional - and close to the very top of the league of all programmes, shown on all channels..... me the same guy must have written Jonathon Ross & Russell Brand's apologies!!

Where the hell do they do the research? An utterly ludicrous thing to say given the reaction since the news broke.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Oct 30 2008, 05:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>.... me the same guy must have written Jonathon Ross & Russell Brand's apologies!!

Where the hell do they do the research? An utterly ludicrous thing to say given the reaction since the news broke.
I suppose maybe the people that previously chose their coverage liked it? I imagine "Audience appreciation figures" tend to be artificially good when people who think that the coverage sucks horribly have the option of watching better coverage on a different channel.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Oct 30 2008, 11:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>The proposed post race meeting at Valencia between the BBC and Dorna management took place on Sunday. By granting exclusive rights to the Beeb, Dorna are probably now realising they've once more shot themselves in the foot. Don't forget British Eurosport actually outbid the BBC to show next years racing - this decision is based upon the supposed marketing potential that National TV Station distribution can yield. The consequences of yet more rash managerial myopia is now sinking in, the horse has bolted yet again and as bemused Dorna bosses are securing the empty stable door as usual, they are finally beginning to appreciate the dividends of retaining some satellite distribution.This is also total .........

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (mattsteg @ Oct 30 2008, 10:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I suppose maybe the people that previously chose their coverage liked it? I imagine "Audience appreciation figures" tend to be artificially good when people who think that the coverage sucks horribly have the option of watching better coverage on a different channel.Yes I'm guessing that audience appreciation figures come from correspondence. They count the positive & the negative letters/emails & the numbers give them an average. Bad craziness.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Oct 30 2008, 10:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>This is also total .........
Goatboy, is either yourself, or someone close to you gainfully employed by Auntie?

Why is this total ........? Firstly there was a meeting on Sunday between BBC Sport Dorna and British Eurosport, secondly Eurosport did outbid the BBC, and thirdly I do think that Dorna would prefer that both BBC and British Eurosport ran coverage as has been arranged in France with the National Channel and Eurosport France. The only party that can block this is the BBC - negotiations are still underway, although I concede, it is unlikely that British Eurosport coverage will continue next year.

For some reason you are about the only person in Christendom insisting that this deal with the BBC is a good thing. Read the history of these threads - I maintained all along that the BBC have no intention of enhancing or increasing the coverage from the existing format - this is already becoming evident, yet the entire rationale of this move as you keep reminding us, was to consolidate coverage on a terrestrial station to broaden its commercial appeal. All we are left with now is the same - if not less, of BBC sport's lacklustre coverage at the expense of the comprehensive weekend broadcasts offered by British Eurosport.

What is total ........ for someone of your obvious erudition, is your continued delusional denial about the merits of this deal, and the quality of BBC Sport coverage - how I wonder do you suppress your raging hard on every time you walk into the post office to pay your license fee?

I'll say it again, if you can come on this forum in a years time and honestly tell me that the BBC have done justice to the '09 season of Grand Prix Motorcycle racing and give me the reasons why, I'll .... in my lid.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Arrabbiata1 @ Oct 30 2008, 11:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'll say it again, if you can come on this forum in a years time and honestly tell me that the BBC have done justice to the '09 season of Grand Prix Motorcycle racing and give me the reasons why, I'll .... in my lid.I'll give it to you now, it's the only uninterupted race coverage.

Dorna has gambled (as I said before, gambled) that there is more money for teams (you know they only pay for all those stickers on the bikes & the huge advertising hoardings because they get on TV right?) in a bigger audience rather than a sponsored channel where the majority of profit from the sponsorship goes to the channel itself.

Alot of time & money has been wasted if Dorna then do a deal with Eurosport, not to mention a lot of time writing all these bloody posts!!

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Oct 31 2008, 12:08 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'll give it to you now, it's the only uninterupted race coverage.

Dorna has gambled (as I said before, gambled) that there is more money for teams (you know they only pay for all those stickers on the bikes & the huge advertising hoardings because they get on TV right?) in a bigger audience rather than a sponsored channel where the majority of profit from the sponsorship goes to the channel itself.

Alot of time & money has been wasted if Dorna then do a deal with Eurosport, not to mention a lot of time writing all these bloody posts!!
Sure, if the sponsors/advertisers are happier, I guess it is good for both dorna and motogp.

Still, they seem to be burning fairly casually people who are naturally or by inclination closely tied to bike racing/ motogp, which may be alright in the moment for dorna and for ezy's stock options/bonuses but not necessarily forever when the hard times come, either in the short term due to the world economic situation or in the long term when valentino eventually and inevitably retires.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Goatboy @ Oct 31 2008, 11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>I'll give it to you now, it's the only uninterupted race coverage.

Dorna has gambled (as I said before, gambled) that there is more money for teams (you know they only pay for all those stickers on the bikes & the huge advertising hoardings because they get on TV right?) in a bigger audience rather than a sponsored channel where the majority of profit from the sponsorship goes to the channel itself.

Alot of time & money has been wasted if Dorna then do a deal with Eurosport, not to mention a lot of time writing all these bloody posts!!