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This poses an existential risk to the health of the sport. The race is only 3 hours, the other 80% of my week/time consuming the sport is through media -- the interviews on race day, the raw footage from press day, the podcasts that are insightful because the media is there to get inside scoop. If that goes away, all of the content we see on social media goes away which will ultimately destroy viewership of the sport both for existing fans and attracting new fans. Without the storylines and inside intel on riders from the media, it's much harder to feel and stay attached to the riders and races.
Feld is a fucking disgrace. There should be mass outrage from everyone in the sport about this decision.
don't agree with everything you said, but the fact remains: WE KNOW NOTHING. Hell, even ML in his video said he didn't know what was ultimately going to happen. Yes, if they cut off legit media it will be a major blow. But until that happens....
Has anyone ever actually listened to the
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They say that?
You are lost bro. The podcasts and other coverage is not going to change regardless who has access to the floor at the race.
I see feld asked some employees to get on here and post.....
I take it that money grabs are transactions where rather than providing value commensurate with the cost of the product or service being sold, a low value product or service is sold at an exorbitant price, often aided by deceptive marketing. I’m not saying I like (or even understand) what Feld is doing, but I don’t see how it qualifies as a money grab. It might be, but I don’t see that as obvious. What, precisely, makes this a money grab?
The guys here saying that don't like that Feld wants to run their own business the way they want to. It's the "big bad company who doesn't care about moto and should give it away for free and give all the revenue to the Teams and privateers".
This isn't a money grab... they'll lose money by doing this... they'll get less exposure to their key audience, thus putting fewer asses in the seats...., and nobody gonna watch their bullchit coverage on yt during the week, so it's not like they gonna be making mad youtube cash....
This a control grab... making sure there is only one narrative, Their narrative, and nobody elses...
No, they are finally saying enough is enough and getting rid of the rift raft, maybe RC was complaining that the mean people at Vital are always making fun of him and saying he's sucks as a announcer (which he does) so he wants you gone just like what he did to Danial Blair. I think they need to limit access because there are still lots of Cooksey's running around spewing bullshit.
“Inside intel” as all the media brow show members only “report” on the news that they feel won’t ruffle any feathers. Moto media has been a joke for a long time and we all know it now they all want to turn around and act like they are curing cancer by taking photos of dirtbikes and lobbing riders softballs they can hit out of the park every time during “interviews” give me a fucking break
This sounds plausible. I’m still rather surprised that they would jeopardize relationships with content creators who promote the sport for the sake of control. What makes control so valuable, and how much of it can they have? The Cookseys of the world will be completely unaffected. Cooksey doesn’t need to attend the races to do his thing.
My biggest issue with this is it's further proof that the people in charge see this as a show and not a racing series. It's a circus, not a sport in their eyes and they treat it more and more as such with each decision. If we're here for the racing, as most of us are, that approach is not a good thing. Nobody who loves this sport wants to see it turn into WWE or monster truck show. Feld taking it that direction is either a big miscalculation on their part or a deliberate decision to trade core fans for what they believe to be a bigger and different audience. It's their company, their right, and maybe in the end they'll make more money for themselves, but that doesn't mean it's good for the sport and we should all just bend over and take it. If this sport goes through the kind of dip that Nascar did when they made a similar play it'll be the end of it. It'll look like Canadian nationals or arenacross.
@ML512 can you share details on what changes Feld is proposing?
I keep reading "Money Grab", 'Billionaire'' and how terrible Feld and MX Sports are. You have the best TV package ever, just about every rider riding outdoors, more race teams than ever while we all know the economy is not great. The sport has never been better and Feld and MX Sports are responsible.
I wonder how many riders will applauded as they will not have a ton of media asking the same questions over and over.
When you mention Jobs, Feld spent millions purchasing SX, MX Sports spent Millions in licensing fees for Moto from DMG, mean while a media has no major investment. I am not putting down the media, but you have to be realistic in judging Feld and MX Sports after all the millions spent and over the last 10 years which has made the sport the best its ever been.
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Maybe they have spent millions but how much have they made? Really no idea but I would bet their in profit
Pit Row
Would this keep the 40 people with cameras from smothering the rider who just won a championship? I’m all for that in any sport including this one.
@ML512 what is the current ratio of Media Persons per Racer on the floor during the 450 main event?
I'm just confused by the reporting on this matter. Are we talking about photographers and/or the whole media group including reporters? I don't think i have read or heard clarification on that yet.
How can they possibly prevent somebody from buying a ticket to an event and report on the results?
RedBull Gmbh (promoter) did that when they got the FIA World Rallycross series. There were a few drivers who used to have great vlogs from the races, some awesome photographers... they banned them all. Even some blog posts or youtube uploads from races filmed from the stands.
It almost killed the sport if Im being honest. (not sure more fellas here follow that series)
Photographer and videographers is primarily what the conversation is about. There are only maybe a couple people that go to the races to cover it strictly from writing / podcasts (think Lewis and Steve). Albeit there’s a few that dual role such as myself, LeBig, whoever attends for Swap (Chase or Donn), etc.
We should know more in a few weeks, all of us were spoken to off the back of this video yesterday about it. OEMs are meeting about it this week and some other stuff. I have hope that things will mostly work themselves out.
Hope it doesn't end up happening, but if that's the last SX you get to shoot from the floor, that's a hell of a way to go out!
Like Slowie and Cooksey?
To me the only possible way this could be a net positive for FELD in terms of viewership and fan engagement and build a larger fan base is if they have some Ride to Survive series cooking up and they are prepared to invest bigly in it...
This did far more for F1 viewership and fan engagement and building a fan base than any amount of blogs or vlogs or social media shit. Stories are where it's at, and holding back the flock of content makers means fresh stories will be able to be revealed in the show months and months after they happened...
But if Feld doesn't invest in these bigger stories, then gtfo. But then again it seems to be the current US strategy of selling to private equity and they cut cut cut, milk profit and burn functioning businesses to the ground. But based on public releases Feld hasnt been scooped up by private equity so lets hope Ride to Survive is coming.....
if it keeps the stories off the screen so they can focus on the actual racing, instead of telling us over and over how increddddible of a job chad reed the former monster energy supercross champ is doing with the clubmx yamaha team to get these guys into shape and how well theyre riding through adversity then im all for it.
ricky is a 10 when hes talking about roczen and a 3 when hes talking about privateers in the lcq, and he needs to be at about a 7 and a 6 respectively. sports that take themselves seriously do not operate this way. the champions deserve better. the mechanics deserve better. the manufacturers deserve better. there's a sense of neediness in this sport that has to go away. female heirs to circus fortunes and boomer legacy tv executives will never get it. its as good a time as ever for the mfgs to pool their resources, buy out the owners and license holders, hire an agent like mxsports (but fire bondo please) to run it, and go to a streaming service. fuck the credentialism. fuck the ama. fuck bondo. fuck nbc. fuck the felds that just wanna sell slop to people they view as beneath them with zero passion or care for the trajectory of the sport.
they could keep it classy and keep the fantasy and betting shit off the screen as well, that might help. maybe find some advertisers besides sky rizzler and crohns ulcerative hot flash collitis. that would also do wonders.
im sort of over it. would rather watch grassroots shit on youtube at this point than this slop. the drones arent too bad, a decent addition in some cases, but thats the only highlight for me.
if ML512 cant do pit bits anymore, then im really done. like, never opening a blog or forum until the summer starts.
Ride To Survive is not coming. F1 and SX are vastly different in size and always have been.
And always will be
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