RTE Lose F1 coverage to Setanta!

irishgeo · 16-11-2004 10:56PM #1

Looks like we wont be able to watch unless you want to fork a extortion amount of €13 extra a month on top of the €60 i currently pay Sky, unless you have NTL
whichvSetanta is free bouns channel.

http://www.setanta.com/content/setanta/website.nsf/systemcontent/feature?open&articleid=48c7ff931ba2d3bf80256f4e0057d475&

Thanks God for his FTV card.

Kalina · 16-11-2004 11:07PM

:mad: WTF??

This is a disaster! What are RTE playing at? Though the last few seasons of F1 have been dire to put it mildly I still want to watch the races (I have hope for a better season every year) and I have no intention of paying Sky an extra €12.99 a month, I already pay over €50. And of course Sky don't provide UTV so where does that leave us?
This is a major loss for RTE, as if the station isn't in enough trouble already!

robo · 16-11-2004 11:16PM

That is bad for you guys who don't have ITV but I would recomend ITV's coverage well over RTE's!!! And Setanta can't be any worst than what RTE serve up on a Sunday!

penexpers · 16-11-2004 11:22PM

True, at least it's another nail in the coffin of Peter Collins.

Nukem · 17-11-2004 12:21AM

Ah F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK F*CK
And jordan get a good engine.is it on Sky sports.
Hang on cant you tune in ITV to a digi box?

Il be bk watch this space

Oh and by the way Setanta is rubbish.Saw a match in the pub and a freeview match at home and its crap.Way worse than RTE if thats possible.

Nukem · 17-11-2004 12:30AM

Ha ha sucess click here for instructions how to tune the Sky box to ITV

Big up the lads in ICDG/Satellite Forum all there hard work

Corben Dallas · 17-11-2004 12:39AM

IF yur on Cablelink u can still watch it on ITV? and Setanta which is a bonu channel.

So no great loss, Will miss the excellent Declan Quigley ( the pit lane guy and David Kennedy,def wont miss Peter Collins (what a twat who knows feck all about F1)

Fabritzo · 17-11-2004 12:43AM

Aye it's not a great loss, the RTE's coverage was only good for when ITV went to ads, the good times were when it was on bbc and Murray Walker presented, I can't remember who did it with him, can anyone recall?

steviec · 17-11-2004 12:53AM

Jonathan Palmer? Murray's been through a fair few partners, I have to say Martin Brundle's been my favourite(in fact he's the only commentator on any station I like listening to anymore) and I think ITV do better coverage than BBC all in all, even if we do have to put up with ads.

I miss Eurosport's coverage, they were by far the most thorough and Ben Edwards and John Watson really knew their stuff.

Robbo · 17-11-2004 01:06AM

Ben Edwards and John Watson were always superb. They seemed to have a great balance. Murray Walker was fantastic due to his charisma and he always counterbalanced Martin Brundle, which can't be said of James Allen who seems to think that the best way to emulate Murray is to throw a knicker fit whenever anything happens, no matter how banal.

mburke · 17-11-2004 09:03AM

Sentata, the channel is pretty new but is spending a lot of money to get sports rights, so it shall be only a matter of time before it is a pay channel on NTL also. Considering that Setanta is really a satellite channel how could F1 administration say that it is covering Ireland ?? As they only have a small bit of the market share.. It really seems like a crazy idea from bernie and the boys, but then again he is only in it for the money.

Any bets that after christmas that NTL will charge something for Setanta, if not how is that channel going to fund itself.

markmagennis · 17-11-2004 05:21PM

irishgeo wrote:

Thanks God for his FTV card.

What is an FTV card then? What can you do with it and does it cost?

Thanks,
Mark

markmagennis · 17-11-2004 05:26PM

Nukem wrote:

Ha ha sucess click here for instructions how to tune the Sky box to ITV

Well yes but no. I can tune the box to the correct frequency and all those complicated settings for ITV, but I still can't actually watch any of the signals, except ITV3. It says they are unavailable. I asked Sky about this some time ago and they said that I couldn't get ITV even if I paid for it. Just not available. Full stop.

Have you had a different experience?

Mark

Nukem · 17-11-2004 11:30PM

Sorry about that i think its false hope.just tuned it in as well.
But on the flip side it is ment to be here by 05.Read the ICDG forum.

Spalk0 · 18-11-2004 01:47PM

Well no real loss to me as i dont watch RTE coverage!I usually watch ITV's even though its usually bias as hell its still a lot better than RTE's!

Nuttzz · 18-11-2004 03:01PM

I normally watch UTV but it was handy to flick to RTE during the breaks

dinjo · 19-11-2004 02:09PM

RTE are nothing but a bunch of W$*kers.......first,they sell tv rights for the football to sky......and now they dont fork out the cash to keep F1 on RTE.... i feel really sorry for all the people who dont have itv.........somebody said it earlier.......F1 on ITV is far better than any thing that RTE could come up with. This has to be sorted out.....ITS A DISCRASE!

Kalina · 19-11-2004 10:03PM

dinjo wrote:

RTE are nothing but a bunch of W$*kers.......first,they sell tv rights for the football to sky......and now they dont fork out the cash to keep F1 on RTE.... i feel really sorry for all the people who dont have itv.........somebody said it earlier.......F1 on ITV is far better than any thing that RTE could come up with. This has to be sorted out.....ITS A DISCRASE!

Agreed, it's a joke. The sport is struggling to keep viewers interested so how does switching to pay per view help anyone only Bernie??

chern0byl · 22-11-2004 07:09PM

Kalina wrote:

Agreed, it's a joke. The sport is struggling to keep viewers interested so how does switching to pay per view help anyone only Bernie??

Because bernie is a clever man. F1 only has a few money making years left and he is going to milk it for everything its worth. The sooner F1 implodes on its own bloat, the better.

ando · 22-11-2004 08:59PM

oh dear this is not good news. I sometimes liked Rte's coverage (ie Lots about Jordan on race preview on sunday mornings) and I liked the way Peter Collins got really excited at some events that were happening on track... Monza '97 when Ralf pushed Herbert off at 200mph and Canada '98 when Michael pushed Frentzen off the track. Both occasions I enjoyed seeing the commentators get really excited and involved in what was going on and show what their feelings were to the events... not like that Robot, by the book idiot James Allen.. My god he's awful, by far the worst commentator going at the moment.
If Utv have any cop on, they'd get the guy that used to do Eurosport's F1's nd I think CART commentary

De Hipster · 23-11-2004 11:11AM

Fabritzo wrote:

Aye it's not a great loss, the RTE's coverage was only good for when ITV went to ads, the good times were when it was on bbc and Murray Walker presented, I can't remember who did it with him, can anyone recall?

It was best when it was Murray Walker & the legend James Hunt (sadly died 1993), never the same since.

egan007 · 23-11-2004 11:13AM

Great - now even more people can not watch it

TUTS · 23-11-2004 11:14AM

Always the same with RTE.....

celticfc · 23-11-2004 11:57AM

dinjo wrote:

RTE are nothing but a bunch of W$*kers.......first,they sell tv rights for the football to sky...

When did they sell the football rights to Sky?

That whole saga was not RTÉ's fault, Sky Sports offered the FAI a lot more money than RTÉ could afford to offer, the FAI (Guess what?) Got greedy & succumed to Sky. :rolleyes:

De Hipster wrote:

It was best when it was Murray Walker & the legend James Hunt (sadly died 1993), never the same since.

I agree totally, they were one of the very best commentary partnerships of the lot.

Ahhh, If only the BBC had the rights back..... sigh...

chern0byl · 23-11-2004 06:00PM

Ben & John were easily the best and by a mile. It was worth the €20 per race when they returned with Sky Digital, the races were poor but the commentary certainly added something to it.

furski · 20-12-2004 04:30PM

They - Rte and Utv coverage of F1 has ads unlike the football - can you imagine ads in the premiership ! no bleedin way - thered be blue f-ing murder! - and football is on alot more than the F1 - F1 is on only every 2 weeks.

thats all I've to say.. :mad: :mad:

aine · 09-01-2005 10:40PM

wow! what a loss?!! lets face it RTE coverage was only good for one thing....the ad breaks on itv!

Miles · 09-01-2005 10:44PM

Setanta, what a rip off operation.

projectmayhem · 09-01-2005 10:51PM

i never watched the rte coverage, but setanta? come on now, there has to be better stations. setanta is lower grade tv then that dcu tv station that was on a few years ago..

maybe rte will buy rally coverage now? or give the money to ryan tubardy or someone...

Robbo · 10-01-2005 12:22AM

celticfc wrote:

Ahhh, If only the BBC had the rights back..... sigh...

It's just one of a number of things that were better when the British BC had control...

grumpypaddy · 27-01-2005 06:26AM

i bet setanta aint too happy that ej has given up... not much hope for many people from ireland paying for sub now that the only irish team will be gone, jordan existing only in name this year

RTE Lose F1 coverage to Setanta!

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