Is Racing on TV getting worse ??

Guest · 2008-09-04T16:10:34Z

I wondered if I was the only one noticing that racing has taken a back seat to most sports- Nationwide.I realize racing is way down as far as ticket sales for live events, but lets face it- When only 2/3rds of the seats are sold for a Cup event why should TV spend more money covering the sport.Now Golf on the otherhand sells out just about everywhere the Pro's tour and the TV coverage is better then most sports. I thought Golf was televised in order to give you something to sleep to....Tennis is a much faster sport to cover then Auto Racing if you think about it. Watch the Race fans in the seats when the cars go by- they first look left, then slowly turn their heads to the right.Tennis Fans on the otherhand are in constant head mode from left to right- non stop- and allot faster...Hockey is right up there with Baseball and Football... too many players on the Field at the same time that never stop moving and are actually only in the spotlight for seconds at a time.Back to Racing... or did you all fall a sleep ??Here are my pet peeves about racing on TV.F1 Racers are only televised in the middle of the night when most smart people are sleeping. I don't care if I miss an F1 race because just like the soap opera's, you can tune in 3 months later and nothing has changed, the storey remains the same.Indy Car Racing has great coverage and is still covered by ABC. The worst thing about the coverage is you never know when its going to be on because your not watching ABC... your watching Speed.That leads to my next question...why the hell did NASCAR decide that the coverage on Sports Net was going to be better then the Speed coverage. When Speed Vision covered Cascar it was great, and it played at times when most people were awake instead of Sports Net's late night air times.Because it was on Speed, even the folks down south knew all of the names of the Cascar Drivers. On top of that they have some guy named Vic who knows jack about racing, but talks as if he is trying to learn the game while talking about it live on the air...genius !!....not !!The real Nascar Series does a pretty good job with televising the events, and even pulls enough strings to broadcast at real race times, but not everything is Rosie here either, from my point of view.If I here Bogehty- Bogethy- Bogethy, or- We work hard and we Play Hard, or- Okay Drivers its time to tighten those straps one more time, or- lets hear from Gopher Cam... I am going to turn off the sound and narrate the race myself.. to myself... or maybe I will watch Golf... zzzzzzzzzz

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marty2

Sep 15, 2008 5:45 pm

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TSN NCATS SHOWS....SPEED SHOWS....SAMES SHOWS. Sorry guys. Just different graphics package...and we went from SD to HD. Oh and I fedex'd the masters instead of driving them 20 minutes to TSN.

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jf61

Sep 15, 2008 6:29 pm

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Can you imagine how much money Nascar tucked in its pocket for Tow Truck in a Box ??
Sure the TV got a cut, and more importantly and fitting- Scott " I like running up front" Steckly but they are spending a ton in advertising through Nascar's name.

Dude. After last year... Hell every year Scott has raced. He deserves to win races, and contend for a championship. One other thing, I've known Scott personally for about 6 years now, and I can tell you that he's a pretty decent guy. So please don't diss the guy, he's not like Kyle Busch....

first off let me say this i am a steckly fan, second do you know kyle busch....

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ace

Sep 15, 2008 6:47 pm

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LOL "Marty"...hehehe...I was waiting for that...

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