FAST SUPER BIKES

For over a decade the BBC have had the rights to show every round of MotoGP. Myself and biker friends regularly watch the BBC's splendid free coverage of the build up to the races followed by the races and laugh at the comments from Steve Parish and Charlie Cox. Granted its appeal dropped slightly when Suzi Perry left, but that aside the coverage is very good.

 Col bought a post on Crash.net to my attention on Saturday that says Dorna the governing body of MotoGP have decided to move from the BBC coverage to BT.
 Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta said, “The BBC has been very good for us. The UK is a mature market and now with the possibilities we have in our TV production, BT Sport can give to us what I think the British fans and everybody needs.”
   Until reading this post on Crash.net I didn't even know that BT Sport existed, let alone had the potential to come and ruin the top class in bike racing, but unfortunately it has.
 You may say all is not lost, just watch it on the new BT channel. But this is where the problem for many of us Motogp fans lies. Apparently BT are giving the sport channel free to customers of its mediocre broadband service. I dont know anyone into bike racing who is a BT broadband customer. To get this channel we have to pay £15 a month. Looking into the content on offer on this channel, it looks like the channel will be mostly filled with Football, Rugby or Tennis, which I don't follow so some months I would pay £15 to watch 1 race on that channel, that's not good value at all. BBC is broadcast all over the country and with 65 million people in the UK thats the potential for a lot of  fans. Advertisers who pay a lot of money to put their products on the bikes and track surroundings wont get seen. BT or British telecom a telephone company is the total opposite having only thousands of subscribers.

Summing up, Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta thinks BT sports can give us what the fans want, that looks to me as though its a bill for £120 for the 8 months of the racing season to watch our sport.

  Fair play to BT for taking on the BBC and winning the battle, but in doing so they have cost many of the fans of MotoGP the chance of watching the the races, I for sure wont be using their service for £15 a month.