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2/10/2015 1:44am
2/10/2015 1:44am
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2/12/2015 5:17am
watched the san diego supercross heats and 250 and 450 mains full races on sunday morning like i always do on youtube, theres usually quite a few youtube channels to choose from, went to watch them again there and cannot find one full main event video for either class, is it just me or what, have they all been removed ??
2015 Monster Energy Supercross Round 6 San... by cbm-racing1
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The Youtube videos get in excess of 100k views sometimes. Even if they charged $75 for the season for online race replays and have 15000 sign ups they'd make well over $1m.
Youthstream do it and I am sure they will get more signups this year because of RV2, so why can't Feld?
Even if Fox own exclusive rights, surely they could operate something similar...
The Shop
I do agree with and hope that this is the end of an era when cable companies decided what we got to watch. The technology and demand is there but you're dealing with a very old industry with Billions of dollars at stake. And just to clarify I'm talking about live sporting events in general.
Ten years from now we will be able to purchase a live sporting event for $0.99. Just like we can buy music off iTunes for $0.99 today.
There is serious, serious money to be made from Live Streaming the races online through an official channel for residents outside of the U.S, but it mesmerises me that neither Feld, nor their broadcasting partner has taken advantage of it.
I cannot speak for other countries, but I know that there are no other broadcasters in the UK with Supercross rightss, therefore Fox/Feld should be able to release an online version (chargeable/free) for UK residents with no problems whatsoever.
They have been talking for years about bringing the actual races outside of the U.S, yet they haven't even nailed down broadcasting it globally? To me, that sounds whack.
It's a lot of money but they know people are so dedicated to their sport that they'll pay it occasionally if they have to.
Pit Row
Cheers then FELD, way to go!
Cool of Feld to start that up, and I'm sure they're looking into making it available elsewhere...
http://kickass.to/usearch/Supercross/?field=time_add&sorder=desc
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