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Friday, 08 June 2012 12:07 |
  Following the recent announcement that Rupert Murdoch's subscriber channel Sky Italia will broadcast the sport in Italy in 2013, Bernie Ecclestone has hinted the BBC television coverage of Formula One could end in Britain.
A similar arrangement is already in place in Britain, where Sky shares the rights with the public service broadcaster's now limited open channel, or as some choose to call it, 'free-to-air' coverage until 2018.
The next step for Britain, Ecclestone suggested to Formula 1 business journalist Christian Sylt, could be Sky getting the rights exclusively.
"We will never move all countries to pay-per-view only though it wouldn't make any difference here in the UK," Ecclestone told the Guardian.
The 81 year old said Sky already reaches about 10 million of Britain's 25 million households.
"We don't get 10 million on the BBC, normally about 6 million or 7 million," said Ecclestone.
"The thing that TV stations want to buy most is live sport. People don't want to watch delayed stuff because nowadays it's hard not to know the result if you don't want to."
He said Sky has done "a super job" so far, adding that the British Broadcasting Corporation had become complacent.
"The Beeb were sure we wouldn't be able to go anywhere else," said Ecclestone.
The BBC is funded by a compulsory public licence paying fee. The British government sets the level of the fee which the government recently decided to freeze at its 2010 level until the end of the current BBC Charter period in 2016 at £145.00 per year or £12.13 per month.
F1SA.com
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