Channel Seriously... In Trouble Again (Merged)

[GTRMagic]

So why dont they ask?

AA is running a survey on their performance soon (which I encourage every man and his dog with access to buy and tell them how you really feel ) why cant #10 do something similar.

I have been to a number of market research surveys for products we sell, and as a participant for other people's products... its not that hard to do....

[cavvy]

Originally posted by mixxer
Obviously they feel the bulk of their viewers would rather watch the tourers than the WRC, not hard was it.

The same thinking that will ensure we don't see the Ashes, i.e commitment to current programming & time difference - the commercial channels dont like messing with their early evening programming & mid afternoon in WA is a big problem.
The 10 coverage today finishes am WA time.

It has nothing to do with the WA Govt telling Coch0 to hoof it with his demands for a street race & part of the WRC budget. (still in the 'too hard to believe' basket for the Cold Coast marketeering latte set)

I blame CAMS because if there was not a conflict of dates we would get conerage of both events. If Ron Walker & his bunch of snipers had snaffled the WRC event like they did the AGP, could you see a Melbourne event having any
competition?

[retro]

Foxsports has the rights to the rally - they have just finished the highlights so now Ten can follow.

[00 XR8]

Originally posted by Schrodes
Another classic Beattie moment today. Ambrose finishes second...
Beattie: So Marcos, your a Tasmanian and you've had your first race in Tasmania and won...
Ambrose: Well I've had my first race but we didn't win.
Seriously, why does this bloke still have a job?

Now you are getting seriously picky. That was a small slip of the tounge. Beattie is one of the best people #10 have ever employed IMO.

And when you put him in a room with Greg Rust to commentate a bike race he sounds even better......

[racer69]

Originally posted by 00 XR8
Now you are getting seriously picky. That was a small slip of the tounge. Beattie is one of the best people #10 have ever employed IMO.

Is that really saying very much, when you consider the other people Channel 10 employ for motorsport duties?


The question isn't so much as to why Network 10 shunned the WRC for the touring cars, but why did CAMS allow the Symmons meeting to be held on the same day as Rally Australia. The fact that the race was originally in China shouldn't have made a difference, they changed the track, why not the date by a week or so?

[Hazza]

"All season Dovisiso has been riding the same, but not the same Honda as everyone else." - Beattie

I just wished 10 would show the Superbikes again That and maybe the IRL

[00 XR8]

When you quote it like that it sounds like a mistake but it really wasn't That Team Scott thing has twice the horsepower of the other Hondas..........

I like your sig though

[Aarrgh8]

After many years of commentators making mistakes, from Murray Walker all the way down to John Smailes, I laughed at Darryl Beattie's faux pas, but, gee, the guy made a mistake. Does it matter?

BTW, looking at sigs, and yours in particular, OO XR8...

Murray Walker from the Canadian Grand Prix: "..and that stretch of water you can see at the top of your screen is not the St Lawrence seaway, it's the Olympic rowing course, which I walked down today."

[resisturban]

because 60,000 people went to tassie, about 50 went to the WRC

[Crash Test]

I heard the head count at Symmons was 60,000, but only 30,000 people turned up


[/crash-test running for shelter]

[cavvy]

Originally posted by resisturban
because 60,000 people went to tassie, about 50 went to the WRC

Didn't you work for Dr Edelsten & the Sydney Swans in the 80s
cos

yeh its you

[EGG]

That Team Scott thing has twice the horsepower of the other Hondas..........

Never mind Barbera's bike...

Beatties alright, even when not comparing him to the rest of the 10 commentators.

Still miss Sheene though...

[Kerri]

Who is that woman reporting from the pits on the weekend & where is she from?

[DannyG]

Originally posted by Crash Test
I heard the head count at Symmons was 60,000, but only 30,000 people turned up


[/crash-test running for shelter]

Now now thats not very nice And besides there were at least 4000 'mainlanders' there, so the head count was 52000

[Kerri]

PMP @ Danny

[GTRMagic]

Originally posted by Kerri
Who is that woman reporting from the pits on the weekend & where is she from?

Kylie King? She has been around for a while, spent time looking after the Konica series from memory...

[Kerri]

Nice too see a female getting into it, hey maybe I should give it a go
I'm sure my other would be really impressed with that

[00 XR8]

Originally posted by EGG
Never mind Barbera's bike...

Yeah I forgot about that thing. Darryl even commented on it when it blew Casey and everyone else into the weeds on the back-straight in Brazil.......

"That is just wrong"!

[Matthew Ronke]

http://au.sports.yahoo.com//040815/2/13dp.html

Ed, Jamie and Arnie preferred to V8s
Wednesday November 17, 04:25 PM

V8 Supercar fans will miss out on live television coverage of what looms as the year's championship deciding race in favour of an American sitcom, a cooking program and an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

The Ten Network won't televise the 6.30pm Saturday twilight race at Eastern Creek next month, in which Ford's Marcos Ambrose is almost certain to wrap up back-to-back V8 titles, until at least 11pm that night.

Instead Ten says it will show comedy Ed at 6.30pm, TV chef Jamie Oliver at 7.30pm and the oft-repeated Schwarzenegger film Kindergarten Cop at 8.30pm on Saturday, December 4.

Ten's general manager of sport David White said V8 Supercar racing was not strong enough to command a prime-time television slot.

He said V8 bosses had always been told if they proceeded with plans to hold a twilight race as part of the Eastern Creek program, Ten would not show the race live.

But White also doubted the current scenario, in which Ambrose needs 42 points to wrap up the championship and needs only to finish race one to do so, would make the twilight race worth televising live anyway.

"If you are Marcos Ambrose and you have to finish 12th to wrap up the championship, how hard are you going to go?" White told AAP.

"My point is about 6.5 million TV homes. We've got to make sure we've got the most entertaining programming available.

"I'm not sure that scenario paints such an exciting picture."

V8 Supercar boss Tony Cochrane said he was disappointed with Ten's decision, while Ford officials are angry at the snub.

Cochrane said AVESCO had always planned to hold the twilight race on Saturday to add spectator appeal to the Round 13 Grand Finale.

But with Ambrose's failure to wrap up the title in Tasmania last weekend turning the race into the pivotal one of the championship, he felt Ten may soften its stance for TV viewers.

Ten has refused to budge, saying it would only show the race live if AVESCO rescheduled the race to afternoon.

"From the board's point of view, we're not at all happy with this decision," Cochrane told AAP.

"From our point of view, we can't change the timeslot.

"We've committed to the general public and sold a lot of tickets."

Ten had also been sounded out by AVESCO about a delayed telecast starting at 8.30pm or 9.30pm.

But White said there were no plans to dump Schwarzenegger's 1990 movie, in which he plays an undercover policeman assigned to teach toddlers, for the V8s.

The twilight race is scheduled after the network's late news and Sports Tonight program.

A spokesman said the replay of the race was likely to start between 11pm and 11.30pm, depending on the duration of Kindergarten Cop.

Ten will show the top 10 shootout live that afternoon as part of its scheduled V8 Supercar coverage, as well as races two and three on the Sunday.

[GTRMagic]

Originally posted by Kerri
Nice too see a female getting into it, hey maybe I should give it a go
I'm sure my other would be really impressed with that

Sweeeeet!! Be nice to have a famous person post here once in a while... or at least one who admits where they are from anyway

[Jason Whittaker]

Channel Ten have just issued a press release. Bowing to public demand (apparently) Race 1 at Eastern Creek will be shown live from 6pm-7:30pm. Shootout coverage remains at 4-5pm.

The ratings will be facinating to see. The yanks are starting to put NASCAR on prime time network TV. Perhaps the V8 Supercars could be a viable Saturday night product (when the footy isn't on, of course)? Or perhaps it will bomb in the ratings and you'll never see another night race again. Stay tuned...

[GTRMagic]

If they dont try, they will never know.

Presuming R3 in Tassie isnt cancelled, this will likely be the title deciding race... and settle position 2 and 3 in the series as well...

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