Question for DC about TV

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Edited Date/Time 1/24/2012 12:00pm
Dear Mr Coombs,

There has been none stop moaning on here from your fellow american citizens who could not make it to the MXdN about how it was not available to watch live on TV.

Red Bull generously made it available free online as they have with all the GPs but seeing as the USA is widely regarded as the powerhouse of world motocross, its pretty sad to see the olympics of our sport not made available to your fans on tv.

My question to you is why not try and form a relationship with Youthstream so that you, on behalf of Mx Sports, can make the MXdN a part of your existing TV package with NBC next year. I can't imagine youthstream complaining about an american audience for their event.

We get every race and moto of the GPs, MX1 and MX2, as well as the MXdN broadcast live on TV here in europe, maybe you could learn a thing or two from youthstream
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FreshTopEnd 9/27/2010 10:09am
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They have been trying to do this for years as to the MXdN. Don't assume that just because something hasn't happened people haven't tried.
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peelout719 9/27/2010 10:12am
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the fed ex cup final was on sunday too. i guarantee there were more people in utah watching the golf final than the MXdN would have pulled if on Live tv the same day. sad but true.

that said, speed or someone should have picked it up.
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Void Main 9/27/2010 10:13am
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
They have been trying to do this for years as to the MXdN. Don't assume that just because something hasn't happened people haven't tried.
Why have previous attempts failed? (just asking)
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dehner47 9/27/2010 10:19am
9/27/2010 10:19am Edited Date/Time 9/27/2010 10:20am
peelout719 wrote:
the fed ex cup final was on sunday too. i guarantee there were more people in utah watching the golf final than the MXdN would have...
the fed ex cup final was on sunday too. i guarantee there were more people in utah watching the golf final than the MXdN would have pulled if on Live tv the same day. sad but true.

that said, speed or someone should have picked it up.
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or football or baseball or nascar.. all of those would of pulled more numbers. buisness is buisness..

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downandup 9/27/2010 10:20am
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Why do people always write "that said"? Well, obviously it was said! (just asking)
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FreshTopEnd 9/27/2010 10:21am
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My understand is it's the price of the TV rights. YS wants to be paid for them. In the US, TV time has to be purchased to broadcast MX (unless, I guess, you are a marginal network looking for content).

So you'd be looking to pay for TV rights and then once you bought them paying a network to run it and hoping to sell enough advertising to cover it (which I think is unlikely if one is serious about buying a large enough slot to show the event live from beginning to end).

And not a very good package as far as yesterday was concerned. Almost everyone who's reported seeing the feed on the internet or live TV broadcast overseas has mentioned the quality was significantly poorer than what YS typically provides.
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FreshTopEnd 9/27/2010 10:24am
9/27/2010 10:24am Edited Date/Time 9/27/2010 10:26am
downandup wrote:
Why do people always write "that said"? Well, obviously it was said! (just asking)
It's used to acknowledge the down sides (the "that said") and transition to the positive statement that a task is still worth doing or a conclusion on balance remains true.
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peelout719 9/27/2010 10:28am
9/27/2010 10:28am
i didn't think the redbulltv package was horrible... not great, but it was no worse than the last 5 years of having to pay for it.
GoldenState54 9/27/2010 10:37am
9/27/2010 10:37am
I don't mind watching it on the computer. Watching the first motos on Alli this year was killer. But the online quality across the board with this years MXDN was 3rd rate garbage. Epic Euro Fail!
TheCynic82 9/27/2010 10:50am
9/27/2010 10:50am
i'm pretty sure they had some big problems because the quality was much better the past gps..
And in TV looked bad too, so it wasnt a freecaster or redbull TV problem.
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Hammer 9/27/2010 10:57am
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
My understand is it's the price of the TV rights. YS wants to be paid for them. In the US, TV time has to be purchased...
My understand is it's the price of the TV rights. YS wants to be paid for them. In the US, TV time has to be purchased to broadcast MX (unless, I guess, you are a marginal network looking for content).

So you'd be looking to pay for TV rights and then once you bought them paying a network to run it and hoping to sell enough advertising to cover it (which I think is unlikely if one is serious about buying a large enough slot to show the event live from beginning to end).

And not a very good package as far as yesterday was concerned. Almost everyone who's reported seeing the feed on the internet or live TV broadcast overseas has mentioned the quality was significantly poorer than what YS typically provides.
So kind of like what the Indy Racing League has done for several years, with Versus, because of lack of interest from major networks? Good thing Tony George had deep pockets!

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