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I only include US because it’s primarily a US sport.
People on here complain all the time about a tape delay race or another sport being shown its completion before SX starts, often overlapping into the SX original schedule. But it’s just common sense for the TV networks to show the most popular sports in priority. Obviously it sucks for us, but it’s understandable.
I was just curious where you guys thought SX would rank on a comprehensive list? Here’s mine.
1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Baseball/Softball
4. Hockey
5. Soccer
6. MMA
7. Tennis
8. Golf
9. Auto Racing
10. Boxing
11. Volleyball
12. Lacrosse
13. Bowling
14. Swimming
15. Track and Field
16. Skiing
17. Horse Racing
18. Gymnastics
19. Skateboarding
20. Billiards
21. Supercross
So I have it ranked 21st. I would say the absolute highest anyone could argue would be 14th and that would be pushing it big time. Could be sports I forgot, but I feel like this list demonstrates why our TV package is the way it is. The fact that we get a three hour slot for live coverage most Saturdays on a major station is pretty good for a sport well outside the top 10 in the rankings. Especially considering there are only about 4 sports stations on a basic cable package, in which FS1 is a part of.
People on here complain all the time about a tape delay race or another sport being shown its completion before SX starts, often overlapping into the SX original schedule. But it’s just common sense for the TV networks to show the most popular sports in priority. Obviously it sucks for us, but it’s understandable.
I was just curious where you guys thought SX would rank on a comprehensive list? Here’s mine.
1. Football
2. Basketball
3. Baseball/Softball
4. Hockey
5. Soccer
6. MMA
7. Tennis
8. Golf
9. Auto Racing
10. Boxing
11. Volleyball
12. Lacrosse
13. Bowling
14. Swimming
15. Track and Field
16. Skiing
17. Horse Racing
18. Gymnastics
19. Skateboarding
20. Billiards
21. Supercross
So I have it ranked 21st. I would say the absolute highest anyone could argue would be 14th and that would be pushing it big time. Could be sports I forgot, but I feel like this list demonstrates why our TV package is the way it is. The fact that we get a three hour slot for live coverage most Saturdays on a major station is pretty good for a sport well outside the top 10 in the rankings. Especially considering there are only about 4 sports stations on a basic cable package, in which FS1 is a part of.
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I would rank it 11 I don't think bowling or gymnastic gets 800,000 views
In Canada, I can't turn on a TV without seeing curling.
Supercross? Well, I have to search for it, my TV provider (bell) doesn't air it... Sure, I could pay $150 for the official package and be pissed when I can't watch the races live. It's 2018, that stream should be perfect in HD every single time. So instead I'm left trying illegal links just to follow the sport. It seems they really don't want the sport to grow.
"I watched some motorcycle racing this weekend."
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If you want to grow the sport you have make it more mainstream, which means you have to promote personalities,athleticism, drama, action and bring in outside the industry sponsors. I just don’t see Feld/AMA/FIM having the smarts to make this happen.
SX is really promoted much the same way as Monster Truck shows. Lot’s of heavily reverbed screaming, flames, crashes and Monster girls. SX/MX racing involves real athletes doing spectacular things. I think the athletic angle needs to be promoted even more. It gives the riders more credibility and the sport becomes more of a real sport and less of a side show/novelty sport.
SX/MX is a solidly middleclass sport and with bike prices getting too high and riding areas harder to find, it will be difficult to grow this sport without going more mainstream and less extereme. NASCAR did pretty good when they promoted the drivers and not the cars. They let the personalities drive veiwership. Once they got away from that they started down slippery slope.
I don’t really think most fans want the sport to go mainstream.
Ahh, I missed the note about Fox network for that round...not FS1.
According to this info from NBC who had Indy, F1 and Nascar in 2017...
Nascar was a little over 3 million average.
F1 mid season was 579,000 average.
Indy mid season was 474,000 average.
Those are US broadcast numbers for NBC.
F1 world wide broadcasts average around 19,000,000 viewers, if I remember right.
Put motocross as a highschool/college sport and watch it grow. Motocross is a fringe sport probably always will be. Who is really pushing to grow it?
When you get old enough you figure this shit out
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