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The Open To Sky In 2016


Larky Masher

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Sad, sad, news. The 0.0000001% of respect I had for the State Broadcaster, has now gone.

The R & A can't see the big picture here. Membership of clubs is falling everywhere (indeed, some are closing). By selling to Sky, they are cutting their audience, which leads to more people not seeing the Open, which leads to more people not taking up the game, which leads to more clubs closing, which leads to Dawson and his chums having to pay for their own gin.

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Sad, sad, news. The 0.0000001% of respect I had for the State Broadcaster, has now gone.

The R & A can't see the big picture here. Membership of clubs is falling everywhere (indeed, some are closing). By selling to Sky, they are cutting their audience, which leads to more people not seeing the Open, which leads to more people not taking up the game, which leads to more clubs closing, which leads to Dawson and his chums having to pay for their own gin.

But the memberships are falling whilst the BBC has The Open.

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What happened to the crown jewels of sport always having to be shown on terrestrial television ?

Has that just been binned ?

How much did BBC spend on formula 1 ?

I see they have increased their coverage of shite snooker, indoor bowls & women's football lately

Edit - from 2009

The Open was only category B

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jun/09/crown-jewels-sporting-events

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Rugby phuqqing league, and a few nags running about were above The Open Championship? Good God.

The State Broadcaster really is an utter, utter joke of an outfit.

The list was drawn up by the previous (Labour) government, not the BBC. I'm not one to defend the BBC but this is really out of their hands.

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