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Y'all need to stop getting these dudes shit canned lol.
The only reason i care is because if MX/SX had even 1/10th the viewership/sponsorship of NASCAR for example, you’d have a gate if 22/40 riders racing for a million dollar purse each weekend with every rider being a factory/competitive rider capable of winning instead of 5 or 6 guys...
Oh and networks like ESPN would actually cover. At the moment ESPN.com covers badminton, supernet ball, and snooker but not MX/SX?.?.?.?
Sigh...
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Watch the NFL, with any one of the half dozen great teams of announcers calling games. They are describing the action of a sport we all are familiar with, but their insight and timing of details make the games so much better to watch. And Al Michaels makes Chris Collingsworth(like John Madden) better. Joe Buck makes Troy Aikman better. Jim Nance makes everyone better.
Watch the NBA, with their great teams of announcers, Again, the game is familiar, but the announcers make the game, which is already great, so much better to watch. Kevin Harland makes Chris Webber great. Mike Breen makes Mark Jackson and Jeff VanGundy really good.
Ralph, and donkey's braying don't qualify in making the broadcast better. Grant Langston is great. Ricky Carmichael and Jeff Emig are really good. But Ralph is just not good enough at calling the action for this great sport. And he doesn't make the color announcers better. He just is too average. Probably a really nice guy, but way too average for our sport.
Oh and Leigh could replace Ralph in a heartbeat in my book. I know Ralph is a very knowledgeable motorsports guy but I don't care for his delivery and colloquialisms.
I also want to give RC props. I feel like he is doing considerably better than before, maybe he put some time into it the same way he honed his craft as a racer. I'm happy to see the progress.
I watched this race with a neighbor who had never seen one before. I think he enjoyed the racing, he caught onto the classes and qualifying format easily. The one thing he didn't get was our filler programming in the middle. That is a true weakness for our program right now, and I'm not sure what the answer is. But I'm pretty sure that NFL halftime programming doesn't feature random girls who like football. I think the answer has to be to get those trackside reporters to the pits in between heats and mains to speak with credible participants in or contributors to the event, be it riders, team managers, team owners, mechanics, riders wives/girlfriends, whatever. We need to get past "mid show filler" to having "mid-show content" that is relevant to the racing that night.
Have Blair talk to a rider on a warmup bike, or sit in with a team talking in the semi. Let's see a mechanic swapping out a clutch or a motor (my neighbor was shocked when I said that this actually happens sometimes). Johnny O hiding the donuts from Jett Lawrence.
Put three teams on notification each week that they could be spotlighted in that time slot, and pick the one that has the most interesting thing going on. They might hate it at first, but the broadcast will be better for it as well as sponsor representation.
I'm sorry to crush the dreams of Makeup to Mud, I am all about growing our female rider and fan base (my daughter rides), but I'm willing to bet the only thing Makeup to Mud is growing is more girls wanting to be featured on the broadcast. Growing this demographic is an entirely different (and important) issue that doesn't need to be in the middle of our sport's premiere broadcast on a weekly basis.
Also,sometime it's hard to understand what the track side bimbo is saying...pull her out.
Put weege in the booth, he would by far be the best...hands down.
RC is improving, but I think Blair would be a better fit with weege, move RC back to the floor and bring back Taft.
Another guy that's pretty good is JT, I watched a couple of gp races and he speaks well, easy to listen to and has great in-site and knowledge of the sport, riders....he also does his pre-race homework, something RC doesn't seem to do.
Is the beginning of a super cross race really the time to be telling stories?
I mean it's a very Action packed sport. And especially the beginning.
When watching you can't even take in all the action.
Tell stories before after and in between races there is enough going on, on the track. And if you must tell stories tell them toward the end when there is a lot of seperation. Same with Replays.
Shouldn't this be common sense?
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I think the overall production is weak when it comes to following the action but as long as I get to watch the races live on tv I'm good. I hear the crowd scream and know we missed something sometimes, but they cut back to it and always show a replay so we see it within 20-30 seconds. I have no complaints...
I know the Ralph haters will assume you and I are idiots and likely not purist MX fans and probably don't know what we are talking about.. But whatever.
As soon as anything happens on the track, you know, like those times you hear the crowd go crazy on the TV broadcast, they should immediately be describing it. But no, they only talk about what the cameras are showing, whether it’s relevant or not.
Just toss in tidbits of what’s going on throughout the pack, like a good radio announcer: Who’s leading, anyone gaining on leader; any battles in the pack, who, how many; anyone moving up or falling back; anyone down, are they up and going; track conditions, sections causing problems for any riders; etc. Just a constant dialogue with the color commentator of the entire event. It may be 80% of what the cameras are following, but don’t hesitate to cover it all, camera or not.
Just listen to an old radio broadcast and you’ll know what I mean, and quickly understand just how good announcers can be, and how bad this coverage can be.
A good announcer can make or break a broadcast.
I don’t really think the older races were necessarily covered better. Some recent cringe worthy moments by color analysts aside, we have it reasonably good today as far as announcers go IMO. Yet, watch a Supercross and you’ll come away knowing so little about the event. IMO is because of how they are doing it, not because they aren’t capable. I actually think if you told Leigh and RC to pretend there is no video they would do a great job. Certainly Leigh would do well.
The coverage of the 450 main at A1 only mentioned 12 riders. 10 riders in the main were never even mentioned. Only four sponsors were mentioned: “Rocky Mtn KTM” (x4), “monster energy Yamaha” (x3), “HRC Honda” (x1), and “Rockstar Husqvarna” (x1). Neither of the passes between 51 or 9 were covered live. Though in fairness they did cut to it reasonably quickly. But had the announcers been watching the event out the window instead of staring at a monitor they could have described it in near real time. As for the riders beyond about 8th, I have no idea how they finished or why, or how it progressed. Was it crashes, did they just fall back? No idea.
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