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I can't stand it, one part Fuel, one part MSNBC, one part NBC. Came inside to watch it & didn't have the 2nd 450 moto recorded, first time all year I can remember one on NBC.
I don't see quarters of basketball broken up over 3 networks or 4 innings of a baseball game on one station & 5 on another.
I realize it's a longer event, but the viewership would be stronger if people were getting lost among 3 or 4 different stations.
I don't see quarters of basketball broken up over 3 networks or 4 innings of a baseball game on one station & 5 on another.
I realize it's a longer event, but the viewership would be stronger if people were getting lost among 3 or 4 different stations.
Dwayne pins the schedule on the top of this board each week, it's running on the sidebar here, and it's pinned at the RacerX site. You really have to make an effort to screw it up. In every other sport you have to check the schedule to see what time and channel a game's on.
The basketball analogy doesn't wash for a ton of reasons, not the least of which is that a set of motos takes longer and is pursued by orders of magnitude less people. It's not going to happen in the US fore the foreseeable future. If as many people watched MX as watch basketball, maybe it would happen, but we don't have that viewing audience as yet. For every person watching MX there's probably ten-twenty that'll sit through a golf tournament or basketball or football.
Budd's Creek and Red Bud also ran the second 450 on the main NBC station.
I'm glad it's on TV, but viewership would go up if they were consistent, sorry you can't see that.
The Shop
All I know is that I recorded and watched 4 live motos of MX today. Pretty Cool!
The harsh reality is that our viewer numbers are in the toilet compared to other sports and we are lucky that there are folks at the helm who pay the money to buy the TV time (they don't get paid like in other sports) and then try to recoup their investment by selling advertising in the secondary market.
Thanks to DC and all the rest of the folks who made it possible.
You have been complaining all day because you put your TV on the wrong channel.
The same stuff went on last year with NBC having some motos and Speed the others.
Pit Row
During the weekday mornings, we like many Americans have news on TV. The Today show with George Steponopoulous (however the fuck you spell it) is our typical program. It's on every morning at the same time, 7am. Now, if it was on channel 12 one day, channel 10 the next, 15 the day after, etc. etc., I would say fuck it & find another TV show. Consistency.
If you really wake up in the morning and say "oh, Unadilla today, that's one is on a different channel than the other racing" - then I would say you spend far too much time reading the TV guide.
I personally liked it when the 450's were one show & the 250's another (I might be confusing MX / SX). Eventhough both motos were condensed into 1 hour, at least I wasn't left hanging on who took the overall. The shows were typically played Sunday mornings, I didn't care, I just wouldn't look @ results till it played.
This is how to get viewers - consitency. The average hill billy flicking through the channels will stop @ Motocross & watch it. When it's over, he won't go hunting around looking for more Motocross (probably doesn't even know it's on), he'll just be onto another show. When people that want to watch it get thrown off by all the different channels / times, there's something screwed up with the programming.
Some of you, if you had all four motos live on one station, would be bitching at MXSports that its confusing to have to keep track of time zones.
Let's say you're an NFL fan, the biggest sports empire in the states right now. There's, what, three principal networks your team's game might be shown on, on Sunday at three possible different times, Monday and sometimes Thursday and Saturday. No one bitches that they have to confirm where to watch the games they want to watch. It's not any different for the other major sports. But the MX TV schedule gets spoon fed to the redass brats in MX and they cry foul because it requires them to pay a child's measure of attention.
That is freakin hilarious...and so true.
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