ted fenton 12:24 Wed Feb 4
BBC lose The Open To Sky !
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Sky Sports pay £10m a year to broadcast golf’s crown jewel
Sky Sports will pay more than £10million a year to snatch exclusive live rights for Open Championship golf from the BBC.
The contract will be announced by the sport’s ruling body, the R&A, early next week and will end the BBC’s 59-year ownership of the rights after the next tournament at St Andrews in July. The BBC are likely to keep a highlights deal but that is a consolation prize.
Is nothing sacred ?
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Mr Polite
12:26 Wed Feb 4
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Good - Sky do the Golf brilliantly
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defjam
12:26 Wed Feb 4
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The cow?
That's still sacred in INDIA.
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Coffee
12:26 Wed Feb 4
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Ted
"Is nothing sacred?"
http://westhamonline.net/forum_flat.php?7744579||1||
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Josh
12:26 Wed Feb 4
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BBC Sport coverage has been in huge decline in recent years.
It was this or MOTD for them. They needed to keep the crown jewels so to speak, although this is another programme which needs an overhaul.
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Coffee
12:27 Wed Feb 4
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defjam 12:26 Wed Feb 4
Not in Muslim India. There, they're scared.
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ted fenton
12:28 Wed Feb 4
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Coffee 12:26 Wed Feb 4
:-)
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ted fenton
12:30 Wed Feb 4
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I hate adverts and the BBC coverage was obviously uninterrupted.
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El Scorchio
1:31 Wed Feb 4
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Dammit. No more Ken Brown.
He's great.
It's very sad that the BBC can't afford to keep the classic sporting events these days, but as said, Sky have more money to spend on it and technology to do it more justice.
What will they lose next? The National? Wimbledon? Olympics? World Cup?
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Sven Roeder
1:36 Wed Feb 4
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I'm sure the other things on that reserved list will be chipped away at over time.
In terms of quality and breadth of coverage you can't argue with Sky's work
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Northern Sold
1:36 Wed Feb 4
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Scorch.... they have already lost the National... along with the Derby... and Royal Ascot
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Mr Polite
1:37 Wed Feb 4
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What will they lose next? The National? Wimbledon? Olympics? World Cup?
They are all ring fenced and guaranteed to stay on free to air channels aren't they?
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Northern Sold
1:41 Wed Feb 4
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Wish Wimbledon would fuck off to NBC
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Sven Roeder
1:48 Wed Feb 4
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GAY TV are poised to make a bid.
Tournament would have to go all-nude first I hear
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AKA ERNIE
1:53 Wed Feb 4
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Fantastic news , the bbc coverage is shit compared to sky.
Plus it becomes the tiger woods show on the bbc even when hes playing like a cunt
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Alex Bunbury
1:57 Wed Feb 4
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I always thought the Open was one of the protected sporting events.
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El Scorchio
2:04 Wed Feb 4
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Northern Sold 1:36
Of course- Channel 4...
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El Scorchio
2:05 Wed Feb 4
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Mr Polite 1:37
At present they are, but I'd only count on the Olympics and the World Cup being protected in the future- if anything is.
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Grumpster
2:11 Wed Feb 4
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All golf on all channels is generally flawed anyway.
Basically I just want to watch people playing shots and not listen to a few old cunts in a room talking about it, as most viewers have played the game enough to know how a course is going to roll, or who's arse will fall out first etc.
Plus they only ever focus on certain people and so you don't even get to see 75% of the players regardless of how they're doing.
The sooner Tiger retires the better as well, as they show every single shot he plays even when he's 15 over. Cunts a no personality has been, so move on from him.
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Takashi Miike
2:15 Wed Feb 4
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more episodes of eastenders, more andrew neil, more portillo travel shows, more lefty tree hugging propaganda, CUNTS
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Grumpster
2:17 Wed Feb 4
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At least they've now created more space and money to make another series of Miranda.
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