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I still can't believe that for 100 dollars spent you can get entire weekends of insane racing in many classes without any commercials in the mxgp series and we are still forced to watch bits and pieces of live coverage of our elite riders in USA in between tons of commercials over and over with very little actual race coverage!! It's sad that we can't buy a package for our national series just like you can for other side of pond!! Not to mention the des nations is included as well for your package!! I do realiz we can stream on pro motocross .com but to me would just be nice to have it all commercial free and have better coverage!! Peace out
Witch ad do you think gets the most views, the one outside of the action everybody uses to go take a piss or the one smack in the middle that has everybody on their feet yelling at the screen to show the racing?
MX isnt a big enough sport to pull big money on the lesser favoured ad spots
The Shop
As far as the coverage goes, Weege was better this week than last. He was pushing a bit hard on the Hangtown broadcast trying to rename Alex Martin. Langston tried to jump on that horse for a bit but you could tell it was not natural so he got back off it. Thank You Grant Langston!!
If you watch the race archieves later, they include the parts that are cut out of the live coverage due to the ad breaks.
Sucks because I love watching the races and the live timing next to it, but then again the live stream is usually like half a lap delayed from the live timing and you already know what will happen next.
I just fast forward thru the commercials when watching the US moto
I'm wondering when companies are going to start cutting down on tv advertising realizing most people don't watch them
When Weigandt & Langston missed the Martain/Smith incident, I was thinking to myself, are they even watching the action as they were rambling on?
To me, Malin is great, but DESPERATETLY needs a Weigant or a Ralph in the booth. He's a colour analyst without the main commentator to hold the show together. Sometimes I think he's forced to talk out of his ass just because theres no one to fill the silences or to bounce off of. The awkward silences at times are so cringeworthy.
Emig couldn't man a show on his own, neither could Langston and neither can Malin, in my opinion.
The production value used to be way off the Nationals standard but i think it has been just as good as the first 2 Nationals rounds if not even better. At least the company that produces the GPs are learning and getting better!
I would think that the Nationals would be just as "slow paced" if Weege/Grant would have to talk through all the motos without commercials. And don't forget that Malin has to commentate the EMX125, EMX150, EMX250 and EMX300 classes also. That is A LOT of talking.
But even if it was a wash, would it be better for the sport to be on a network that millions of people have the potential to see or to be restricted to an Internet stream that caters towards the hardcore audience? Or maybe they could do something similar to how the MXGP races are shown here with a tape delayed abbreviated broadcast on a smaller sports network with a subscription live stream option? I'm not sure what the answers are to those questions.
Personally, I find the MXGP broadcast a little boring. I only watch a few MXGP motos a year so I'm far from an expert on what they do every week but I find the AMA coverage more entertaining. I rarely watch all the AMA motos each season too though. It's all subjective though of course. I haven't watched the Canadian races in a while but that use to be and maybe still is great and exciting racing to watch! Different strokes for different folks.
I don't understand all the hate for the sponsors. One guy posted on RX comments that he would never buy anything from Kawasaki or Geico because they have to see all those commercials. Cool, run off the companies that are putting their marketing dollars into our sport. What a great idea. I'd rather support the people that support what I like and enjoy.
racing is good , too good to only see just 10 min live of any moto ... really sucks
"Flicking through the 4 MXGP races again after watching them-not one advert
5 full minutes of Gaijser hounding Nagl for the lead (plus replays of the pass)
And a whole race of Desalle,Paulin,Cairoli,Bobryshev,Van Horbeek and Febvre going at it,10 seconds between them all moto,awesome,best race of the whole weekend imo
I'm sure there's a lot of people who'd pay to watch non stop broadcast of the AMA series given the choice"
Although I agree with Burnside that the presentation is better for the AMA,it's more liveley and upbeat,the 2 commentators are also.It may not appear thay way if they were to show 40 minutes of continuous broadcast though.The bike noise is louder which makes a suprising difference,try watching either race witht he volume down
Pit Row
I can get all 4 MX motos advert FREE and LIVE here in NZ with SKY TV in HD. As well as all SX and Monster Energy Cup races.
I can't get any GP coverage.......
The 250's are far more interesting but the whole show is all blow and bluster,stuff the talk,trackmap,features etc and show more Moto-live timing showed plenty of passing but the TV didn't
I prefer MXGP by far.
What I dislike about AMA coverage, the adverts the interviews of 450 riders during a 250 race and most of all the commentary is bad.
Langstons man love Roczen is annoying I mean love kenny but Langston goes on about him as if that's all he's interested in.
It took them like 3 laps for them to realise that Forkner was in top 5.
They just ramble about useless shit and hype and over exaggerate things all race.
Malin generally calls it how it is yes he may get some names mixed up and may show slight bias to GB and aussie riders however it's not horrible, but apart from that he's pretty on point in fact he makes me learn about some lines he points out.
The most I liked ability Malin this year is it took him a few races to give Gasjer the nod approval that he's the real deal where as in the US it would be hype city.
I also like how all the interviews are pre and post race that's it.
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