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Does it bother anyone else how hard this sport is to watch? My family has Spectrum(Time Warner Cable). I've always used the Fox Sports Go app. Earlier today our app stopped showing Monster Cup as an option to watch. This isn't the first time this has happened. I've noticed in the past year or so how hard it has become watch Monster Cup/Supercross. For some reason even though we pay for Spectrum sometimes we still can't watch the races. It seems like every Saturday night I'm running around trying to find a way to watch the race. If the dedicated fan base is having trouble watching the race how do we expect to gain new fans? I just want to watch the sport I love. Maybe I'm just pissed off and ranting but I can't be the only one that feels this way. I want nothing but the best for this sport and hope it becomes easier to watch.
The Shop
How old are you??
It was on Fox Sports 2. Sorry if you did not pay for that channel. Somebody, somewhere has to pay money for ANYTHING to be broadcast.
"OUR" sport is just not that popular. There are reasons why there is not a horsehoes channel or darts channel.
more complex answer:
i love motocross and if i had to read about these races three months from now in a magazine, i would.
i did in the 70's and it was awesome then and it's awesome now.
this is an enthusiast sport, not a spectator sport. the "industry" want's more sports market share, like any group trying to make a buck.... but,
the sport has a high price point for entry, it always has and always will. and if you don't ever participate in dirt bike riding, you never will understand motocross to a point you enjoy watching it. because you won't be able to understand just how incredible these kids are. so you would be the odd one, who watched it, if you didn't do it.
so the coverage we have now is proportional to the interest in it, and that interest (i'd wager) is roughly the same percentage of people as the 70's.
the entertainment industry has grown to a point that supports providing us live races, it's not the sport's growth that has done anything special in that regard.
Feld has monster truck jam or monster energy monster jam monster monster show.
They BRILLIANTLY bought all the trucks and rights to them, then stick who the fuck ever in there to drive the truck (the truck is the star, the drivers are interchangeable.- ie I know Gravedigger and Bigfoot......i don't know what hillbilly drove either truck for the 94-95 season.
So they own that show, top to bottom. They can run 3 shows over a friday saturday sunday- trucks don't get tired or injured. Gravedigger driver gets paralyzed? Push him out and put heybob Jim 2 in there to drive it, who cares. All the sales for merch, theirs.
Think about how lucrative that shit is, and how complication free it is compared to having 10 superstar private contractors, arguing with factories about money and getting hurt.
I'd love to see a financial breakdown but the fans have got to tone it down. This shit is never going to be the NFL. Travis was as much crossover as we're ever going to get IMO.
I love the sport for what it is. Keep it niche, I'll enjoy it, even if 95% of the general public could care less.
But, what do I know? I even enjoyed the Best Whip contest.
Almost all SX races are live on Fox Sports 1, sometimes 2, and a couple on regular Fox such as Massachusetts.
For the past few years, they have posted the schedule and what channels each race will be shown on. What does that mean? Pay for whatever service provides Fox Sports 2 or do without.
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