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Bike sales are dropping, but SX viewership is up. Maybe showing Supercross doesn't necesarilly make people want to get out there and do it?
It is interesting to note social media vs TV numbers. Also, social media for these guys rivals some major stars. I'm not sure why that is. Aaron Rodgers has about 750k on IG. Kenny at 1 million.
What concerns me is the transition from a spectator sport vs a participation sport. Outside sponsors are much needed because industry sponsors aren't selling products to a spectator.
I could of sworn that some rounds had close to a million viewers.
Maybe there's less household with Fox Sports 1.
At least its on an upswing and Fox Sports is interested in continuing to do live broadcasts.
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Finnish guy, thanks for worrying so much about things in the USA. THUMBS UP!
I am pretty sure that a Raikkonen sex tape would get less views than an off day NASCAR race.
If we where on that network every weekend we’d get some decent ratings. Never gonna happen
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SX will not grow into a significant money making sport for the networks until they figure out to not put qualifying heats into the broadcast. There are two point paying races at each round and that would fill a hour long show. What they have going on now is only for the diehard fans
Like I said in my earlier post odds are its the highest rated program on fox sports 1 for the week.
The production of the show is in a weird place where there is only enough entertainment for a diehard fan to watch for 3 hours, but all the fluff is produced for the casual fan but its just not that interesting to keep people watching every week. Also most of that fluff has nothing to do with the racing. They do 1 or 2 rider profiles, and 3 or 4 segments that nobody really cares about.
There are huge breaks now between the heats, lcq, and mains. There is time to do a true highlight show of the last weeks races and a sportscenter/pulpmx style "news around the pits" kind of segment. This could be the segment where they are really talking about the riders and teams in the 5-20 positions since that rarely happens during the race. This could be more in depth than what Jenny reports on for 30 seconds at a time
Basically there is a bunch of dead time during the broadcast but also an expectation that you will go to other sources than the sx broadcast to learn about the riders which i think is kinda dumb. The riders are just as much a part of the product as the racing but the broadcast doesnt treat it that way.
1 class with 80 riders. 4 quarterfinals advance to 2 semifinals who advance to 1 main.
Top riders ride 3 times, slower riders aren't left out, fans aren't left confused why there is 2 classes that look the same, every race matters. 2 hours to keep the pace moving.
Turn the program into a legitimate show that features the points paying Main events and get rid of the pre race crap that only the hardcore fans want to see. We have the internet to get streams if that’s what we want to see
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