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Edit: ya, I know, pipe dreams...
Case in point: they could have kept Red Bull happy and retained them as a sponsor and streamed everything on their highly-capabale, already established and ubiquitous streaming platform for everyone all over the world.
From out here this feels like a massive miss, and genuine short-sighted greed and/or incompetence on how to run a global series. Now it is a regional side show at best. Easily 10 steps backwards, and NOBODY can be happy about it. Not the manufacturers, sponsors, riders, owners and certainly not the fans. It is a complete hack job and again, he is the big boss man so he needs to take the heat. Or step aside and allow a more capable entity try to get it back to any semblance of respectability.
ML can you ask what is the barrier to putting the races on YouTube?
I’m with Matthes, I don’t understand why they can’t just put the races up on YouTube. That’s how you get more eyes on the sport, not making people jump through 20 different hoops to watch. If a random viewer sees it on NBC and wants to continue watching are they really going to go through the trouble of signing up for FLO? I don’t think so. Are the TV contracts the only thing keeping the series afloat?
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MAV TV underestimated the viewership amount I think. The intrest is there , the money is there as well , as most everyone is willing to pay for a flawless broadcast. Someone needs to connect the damn dot's!
Was RedbullTV an option?
The switch to Monster is going to be a big part of Supercross and Pro Motocross relationship going forward.
On top of that, I can't say for certain if RedBullTV was even an option.
It's been 10 years of the sport paying for us to broadcast on major networks. Everyone's thoughts were it's going to grow the sport. Well the sport hasn't grown and when you ask the general public about dirt bikes they think TP199 backflips.
We need a new outlook on the sport. It's always been monetized, but the sport never made the money, it just went to the big broadcasters. Now with the new age we can be monetized, but the sport makes the money back with companies like Flo.
- Every rider in the main should have a bio page that is guaranteed time on the screen. Selling their sponsors in addition to their brand.
-The coverage continues to underwhelm non riders. Show the size and speed of things for God's sake.
-Rider profiles and Team profiles need to be SERIOUSLY improved upon and AWESOME.
-Money makes the world go around. If you have half the field lining up on borrowed gas money...well it shows. Pay everyone reasonably. Sort that out. Don't care how.
Many more thoughts, but just my opinion I know. I'm just a 50 year fan of the sport and weekend warrior.
1. Rider purses for outdoor nationals are GD joke. Without the riders filling the gates there is no product to sell.
2. A small fraction of moto guys even care about outdoors. Listen to the podcasts of a ton of pros the common theme "I hate racing the outdoors". Meet with the teams, riders, and sponsors and make it better for them.
3. Get back to the roots. I can only answer for the Texas scene, but there will be a bunch of tracks open this weekend for practice filled with people that don't even realize Red Bud is going on this weekend. Moto needs the amateur level of this sport thriving. There's no excitement behind pro racing outside of supercross.
4. Your series doesn't even cater to the core of your base. I understand California is HQ for moto but to skip over gigantic population states like Florida and Texas in favor of West Virginia, Maryland, Washington, Indiana, etc is a head scratcher. Swan is a national level track down here and has lights. I can't speak on Florida.
Never understood the whole threat and fear of being blackballed. Seems pretty amateur and petty if you ask me. Wanted to use the word childish but there may be reasons I don’t understand…
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Example- One of the greatest riders in the history of the sport(Eli Tomac) signs SX only deal for next year. His dad then goes on record that next year will likely be his last yet no one has asked Eli in any of the post race presser's about this potentially/likely being the last time he races the nationals.
Can you imagine this happening in any other sport? Imagine if Lebron James indicated it was his last season then during the post game pressers no one from the media even mentions it.
I'm sorry but the MX media as a whole is a complete joke.
People always bitch about the problems but rarely come up with any solutions other than just pay them more. Where does this money come from?
And yes, it’s been brought up a bit in press conference and a couple interviews I’ve seen about possibly Eli’s last time at certain tracks. Just my opinion, but Eli is not the kind of rider I’d ask about that every week. I don’t think you’d get a good interview at that point.
If we’re all such jokes, then it shouldn’t be too hard for someone to do a better job…
The promoters and the manufacturers still want network tv , the hard core fan just wants to he able to watch the races easily, someone has to give , this is about the only thing mxgp does better
And just for the record, ML you're one of the few reasons i qualified my statement with "MX media as a whole".
I'll also concede that MavTV and their infinite wisdom is partially at fault given they appear to have gotten rid of the one good thing to come out of Covid.... That being allowing the media to attend post race pressers virtually which had an immediate and immense impact on the # and quality of questions. Last weekend the 450 riders were asked a combined 1(lame) question outside of the moderator. Pathetic.
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