Non-BT MotoGP coverage

[ogden]

Originally Posted by littleoldman2

£83 a lot of petrol to ride the bike so think I'll give that a miss.

Thanks for your insightful contribution.

That is live.
what about highlights?
Show race again next day?

[ogden]

Originally Posted by The Basket

That is live.
what about highlights?
Show race again next day?

Same answer. There will be no coverage, live or otherwise, on BBC or Eurosport. It's BT Sport or motogp.com.

Originally Posted by littleoldman2

£83 a lot of petrol to ride the bike so think I'll give that a miss.

I think there are a whole lot more out there saying the same thing! Especially if that petrol is used to ride to a bikers pub that is screening it anyway!

[rapidgaz]

Originally Posted by Berlin

I think there are a whole lot more out there saying the same thing! Especially if that petrol is used to ride to a bikers pub that is screening it anyway!

No that sounds like a good idea.


Sent down the wires from home

[ogden]

Originally Posted by Berlin

I think there are a whole lot more out there saying the same thing! Especially if that petrol is used to ride to a bikers pub that is screening it anyway!

To put the figure in context, £83 is for the whole season, so you'd have £4.60 to spend on 3.5 litres of fuel each race weekend. That gives you 30 miles or so, in total, to get to the pub and back. Twice, if you want to watch qualifying as well.

So if there's a biker pub within 8 miles of where you live, which you know will be showing MotoGP, and is open at 9am, or 2am for the flyaway rounds in the far east, and you don't mind riding or driving there in whatever weather mother nature throws at you that weekend, and you don't have something else on that weekend which stops you watching the event live, then you're sorted.

For the rest of us, £83 may not look like such a bad deal.

[21QUEST]

For what you are get, £83 is a bargain...a 'steal' even...

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by ogden

For the rest of us, £83 may not look like such a bad deal.

But on top of everything else that I pay for I'm not so sure.

For me that is a lot of money considering I had it for free for the last 15 or so years. I started watching MotoGP back in the 500cc days when it was shown on Channel 5 and then when it moved to the BBC. I have Sky here and have been enjoying the fuller coverage on Eurosport that I get included in my package. But for the main race I've always gone for the BBC which is paid for in my TV Licence.

So the basic question is what more am I getting for my £83 that I wasn't getting from the BBC?

[ogden]

Originally Posted by squirrel_hunter

So the basic question is what more am I getting for my £83 that I wasn't getting from the BBC?

No, the basic question is what more are you getting for your £83 than you'd get from the BBC next year. And the answer is "any MotoGP coverage whatsoever". Comparing against years gone by is pointless because the situation has changed.

You have three choices: Pay BT (whether directly, for a broadband package, or indirectly via Virgin), pay Dorna (via motogp.com), or don't watch the races. If you don't like those options, complain to Dorna. They're the ones who decided to sell the UK rights to a subscription-only provider. BBC, Channel 5 and Eurosport (who are also a subscription-only provider, remember) are irrelevant as of last November.

[squirrel_hunter]

There is a 4th option as has been previously suggested, that of some sort of streaming site. Excluding the legal and or moral questions however.

Yes the BBC will no longer have it but the question remains valid. I previously paid for the coverage via the licence fee and in the grand scheme of things, that would have been a very small amount. But lets call it £1. Now I am being asked to pay 83 times more than I did before. I'm just wondering if the coverage will be 83 times better?

If its not better and I would guess its going to be about the same I'm left questioning the value of it.