Honestly...couldn't tell ya racer44. I'm not that close.

What I think though is that all these press releases ARE sent out to all the various media. It's the papers, (and radio stations etc)  themselves that decide whether to to run it or not, or to send out a reporter.

Free Press coverage has been better than it was last year, but it's still nothing to write home about. I may be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet that the smaller town weeklies have been running a lot of this stuff. I remember hearing a comment last year that the smaller papers were actually giving us some half decent coverage.

I'd imagine that the Freeps would probably give us better coverage if we actually advertised in the paper, but that's gotten very expensive, and the Freeps doesn't play ball as well as they did in the Blackburn days. Back then, there were ads in the sports section every week, and Free Press night at Delaware was a common occurrence...every Free Press carrier got two tickets in his paper bundle. (This was back when it was kids delivering the paper. translation: a loong time ago)

Its important to remember that Freeps coverage has been fair-to-none-to-middling at best for a long time. This isn't anything new. I don't think they've run a regular Saturday morning race report from the night before since the mid-eighties.

That's as much as I know.

..... If this track wants to get new fans to see racing get these stories out to the papers and magazines not just on the web site...........You had a good crowd at ISMA but you would have had better if all info was sent out to the public by proper channels not just your website......

  The vast majority of new fans are younger fans and all the stats show they are not reading newspapers , they are on the web . Newspapers are dying all over North America and i have little doubt they will become virtually extinct in the not too distant future . Not only because of their dilatory nature of disseminating the news but because the greens will insist that we quit cutting down trees to circulate information . IMO if the tracks really wanted to increase attendance they would be advertising on sites such as this one .

I'd agree that newspapers are dying, but advertising just on websites alone won't attract "new" fans, because young kids who aren't fans won't be on racing sites to begin with to see the ads.

agreed-you must advertise both in the print media and on internet sights. Advertising on racing web sites is preaching to the choir, And I find, as our spectator base gets older, there are a lot of 60 plus folks out there who have the $$$$ to spend but are not computer literate.

The Paxton who are the announcers at Flammy, have a hand in GRR mag, which covers just Flammy and Delaware and the WWS series, which runs only at Flammy and Delaware. The story goes, right or wrong, that they have been the ones behind the banning of Dave Franks.Many feel they have their own agenda which is not in the best interests of the drivers and fans of Flammy, which can be read about on the Flamboro chat forum also. But after reading Gregs comments i'm sure next year we can put together something to make sure Inside gets info and stories. But Dave was taking pictures at Octoberfest, riding in his golf cart and sitting holding on to the tailgate, in the back of the McMaster Gm pacetruck.