I don't get all the hate for Bernie in this subreddit. I mean, what else do you expect from the guy in his job? For me, he does task just fine, within the limits of what he can do.

He seems to be doing everything he can to improve the sport, like with recent news of him trying to cut costs by introducing customer cars, returning to V8s(which I don't personally agree but race promoters are very upset with the noise and he needs to respond to them).

He also intervened in unfair situations like the engine loophole thing that screwed up Honda and gave prize money in advance to some teams in order to help them make Melbourne. Remember he can't just change the rules the way he wants. Everything needs to go through the teams' approval.

Some people say he needs to "get in the 21st century" but I don't really understand it. What do you want? F1 already has a twitter account and hashtags appear on the World Feed.

On demand streaming service? That would be hard to accomplish. First, I don't get why all the fuss with paying for a TV subscription. It's not that expensive, and if you somehow think an "FOM subscription" would be less than $30 a month forget it. They won't sell it cheap otherwise they would lose money from TV contracts. Also, in order to make their own broadcasting service, they need a full team of reporters, cameramen, commentators to cover the event before, during, and after it. Then, you have the language problem. F1 is very popular in Europe, a continent known for its many, many languages. It could end up being something nice but it would cost too much money and it would end up reaching too few people. Maybe in 15-20 years when cable is dying and people are more used to watching things on the internet.

Streaming/selling old races would also be hard to do for reasons of contract/licensing with broadcasters.