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Another day, another blog. Please reopen Ben Gallops blog so that we can comment in the appropriate place.

Stop the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Formula 1 Sky farce now.

Please reopen Ben Gallops blog so that we can comment in the appropriate place.

The closing of that blog has been a knee jerk reaction of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ when they noticed that they could not win the argument. They hoped that silencing the customers of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ - yes ´óÏó´«Ã½ we are your customers, treat us like that - would end the issue.

That was, a knee jerk reaction, and I am sure that management of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sports together with the Executive management are drafting a reaction as we speak. That reaction will probably fall short of our expectations, but lets hope we will be able to comment to that reaction.

Please ´óÏó´«Ã½, tell me I am right.

You must read this:
Phil Duncans blog on F1: Revealed! Channel 4's last-ditch bid to keep Formula One on terrestrial TV

Well the headlines of C4's bid read like nonsense. Talk of red button hideaways for example only indicate their own failure to provide an interactive service. C4 coverage would have meant constant race interruptions for adverts. Yes C4 did a very good job on test cricket but have little record on anything else except horse racing. I was very upset and angry when I first heard of the F1 deal. But on reflection I think this may work out for the best. In particular this is the first time in the last two years that the ´óÏó´«Ã½ have fought back from losing a rights deal and looked for a way to stay in the market. I hope this is an indicator for the future. Most of the gibberish about censorship etc is getting ridiculous.

Roger's post is actually a serious reflection on the riots and next year's Olympics. It is a sad comment on some of the F1 fanatics that with the terrible events of this week still fresh in the mind all they can think about is their private obsessions.

Thanks Roger for your thoughts.

I see Grandstand is effectively back for the day next Sunday with events that on the whole haven't been on the red button. Also see the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is putting red button coverage of the European Hockey Champs on the red button - but virtually all of it isn't on Freeview.

jcb336. You are so wrong in your comments and you obviously know nothing about what has been tranpiring over the past 2 weeks. Six blogs have been closed down by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ - two of which had been open since September last year so if you want to comment about gibberish on censorship then I would suggest that you get to know your subject or refrain from commentary.

Sad comment on F1 fans that we still have private obsessions in light of this week's events. Get a grip for goodness sake. We have been horrified by events but did we desist from listening to the TMS coverage of the 3rd Test from Edgbaston? No, of course we didn't, any more than I continued to fight against Sky killing a sport that I have been watching since the 1970's.

Sad that you "hear, hear'd" the comments Roger, thought you would know better.

"Sky killing a sport..." Oh for heaven's sake.

@JCB336 "Roger's post is actually a serious reflection on the riots and next year's Olympics. It is a sad comment on some of the F1 fanatics "

This wouldn't be the case if the ´óÏó´«Ã½ had not closed Ben Gallops blog which had 8,500 comments and counting. The ´óÏó´«Ã½ have closed the blog in which we can make relevant comments without answer. I'm sorry to Roger that the discussion is spilling over into other blogs, but he is the only person at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ who appears to respond, and we are appealing to him to get Bens blog re-opened.

As for "Sky killing a sport". F1 relies on sponsors. ´óÏó´«Ã½ currently gets 3-6million viewers on a Sunday for the F1, Sky will be lucky to get 1 million.

At least if it went to C4 it would still be available to ALL, not just those who can afford to pay Sky, and are willing to fund the Murdochs.

jcb336 I see your point about the riots and discussing the causes. There are many causes including greed, discontent, fear, peer pressure and a general erosion in the respect people have for people of influence and key national institutions. I originally wrote an off-the-cuff comment on the F1 blog expecting some kind of explanation from an institution - the ´óÏó´«Ã½ - that I held in high regard. But I have seen others' comments become increasingly angry because the ´óÏó´«Ã½ has apparently made a decision not to comment and news stories that I would normally expect to include an 'oh by the way' mention of this issue have ignored it completely: for example coverage of the e-petition website. As a result I have lost a lot of faith in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and I have begun to understand how perhaps the more intelligent of the rioters were drawn towards a trigger point when they too had often witnessed disregard by a group that should know better. I hope you understand I am not in support of rioters and I am not saying the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s actions will cause me or others to loot the local Comet, set the local furniture store alight or stone police officers who are keeping the peace, but I can imagine if the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s attitude and lack of respect were all I had experienced in my life I would not be as calm as I normally am and I might be drawn towards militancy. May I add that Mr Roger Mosey has had the common courtesy to enter into a discussion with other contributors but his colleagues have not, this causes me to believe the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is not staffed exclusively by disrespectful and lazy people: my apologies to him for going so far off topic, but perhaps he could shake his colleagues a little to wake them up please?

It''s amazing that the News International phone hacking is back in the news today, and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ are associating themselves with these criminals. When the Murdochs were in the dock last month, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ must have been talking through the F1 deal with them.

Sickening that the Beeb would associate with an organisation that hacked a dead school girls phone.

Well if you are so sickened with companies associating themselves with the Murdochs you'd have no interest in watching F1 anyway.

Finally found the email address you can use to appeal to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Trust:
TrustEditorial@bbc.co.uk