nzjrs wrote: ↑07 Jun 2021, 15:36
El Scorchio wrote: ↑07 Jun 2021, 15:27
I'd imagine if they ever get to a point where FOM is paying them more than the UK public is paying them. But I don't think that's ever even remotely likely to happen. To contextualise, Sky has nine million customers (at a conservative estimate) in the UK, all paying probably between 30-80 GBP per month. If you assume everyone is ONLY paying 30, that's 270,000,000 GBP income from UK viewers. That doesn't even account for anyone buying sports or movie packages. If you just take 50 GBP as an average to account for sport subscribers, that's 450,000,000 or almost half a billion GBP. You'd then have to add in all the NOW TV customers as well which inflates it more.
Even if FOM gave them 10 million a year for taking their commentary which is realistically probably many times more than they actually do, then it's absolutely DWARFED by the UK revenue. Realistically FOM probably pays them very little, but provides them the best access to all the teams and staff and facilities.
Wait, people pay that much per month for just the F1 in the UK? Jesus, for only $8 you can use the F1 app and get the same commentary team!
Or less snide, how much is the UK public paying them to do F1, compared with just paying for Sky because Sky?
But yes, if I was Sky I'd be looking to offload the commentary team to FOM and buy it back, I guess not all the Sky customers watch F1, so they could sell it back to them as a sports package, like they do in other countries.
Anyway, that's more or less all I wanted to say. I hope F1TV pit lane channel returns to some sense of professionalism next race.
It's not JUST F1- it's their sports packages as a whole. You don't pay for F1 separately. (So the money for F1 comes out of a central pot) But Just a Fan is right. Sky pay a tonne of money to F1 for exclusivity of live coverage (120m GBP a year), so if you want F1, you subscribe to Sky at substantial cost, or you buy day/week/month passes to NOW TV (owned by Sky) to be essentially a Sky PAYG customer.
If you don't want to pay, you either don't watch, watch Channel 4's highlights (which they pay 35m GBP a year for- for highlights ONLY, plus the British GP Live) or you stream it illegally. Those are the options.